Books, Articles & Chapters
Allahdua, G. (2023). Harvesting Freedom: The Life of a Migrant Worker in Canada. Between the Lines.
Campos-Flores, L., & Rosales-Mendoza, A. L. (2023). Living Better but Separated: The Emotional Impacts of the Canadian Seasonal Agricultural Workers Programme on Transmigrant Workers. In N. Kerrigan & P. de Lima (Eds.), The Rural-Migration Nexus: Global Problems, Rural Issues (pp. 111–140). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18042-2_5
Cortina-Castro, M. E., & Kobayashi, K. (2020). Temporary Workers, (Im)Permanent Labour: Exploring the Lived Experiences of Mexican Seasonal Agricultural Workers in British Columbia. The Arbutus Review (TAR), 11(2), 4–21. https://doi.org/10.18357/tar112202019604
Evelyn, E. G. (2016). Evelyn Encalada Grez in Conversation with Marlea Clarke. Migration, Mobility, & Displacement, 2(2), 76–89. https://doi.org/10.18357/mmd22201616156
Fitting, E. (2025). The transnational agricultural care chains of migrant farmworkers: Land, livelihoods, and social reproduction. Agriculture and Human Values, 42(4), 2397–2409. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-024-10698-6
McCausland, J. A. (2020). Racial Capitalism, Slavery, Labour Regimes and Exploitation in the Canadian Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program. Caribbean Quilt, 5, 55–61. https://doi.org/10.33137/caribbeanquilt.v5i0.34378
McLaughlin, J., Wells, D., Mendiburo, A., Lyn, A., & Vasilevska, B. (2017). ‘Temporary Workers’, Temporary Fathers: Transnational Family Impacts of Canada’s Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program. Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 72(4), 682–709. https://doi.org/10.7202/1043172ar
Mysyk, A., England, M., & Gallegos, J. A. A. (2008). Nerves as Embodied Metaphor in the Canada/Mexico Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program. Medical Anthropology, 27(4), 383–404. https://doi.org/10.1080/01459740802427729
Perry, J. A. (2018). Living at Work and Intra-worker Sociality Among Migrant Farm Workers in Canada. Journal of International Migration and Integration, 19(4), 1021–1036. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12134-018-0583-z
Perry, J. A. (2022). Situated Learning and Transnational Labor Migration: The Case of Canada’s Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program. Adult Education Quarterly, 72(4), 422–438. https://doi.org/10.1177/07417136221095480
Vosko, L. F. (2018). Legal but Deportable: Institutionalized Deportability and the Limits of Collective Bargaining among Participants in Canada’s Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program. ILR Review, 71(4), 882–907. https://doi.org/10.1177/0019793918756055
Weiler, A. M., & Grez, E. E. (2022). Rotten asparagus and just-in-time workers: Canadian agricultural industry framing of farm labour and food security during the COVID-19 pandemic. Canadian Food Studies / La Revue Canadienne Des Études Sur l’alimentation, 9(2), 38–52. https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i2.521
Wells, D., McLaughlin, J., Lyn, A., & Mendiburo, A. D. (2014). Sustaining Precarious Transnational Families: The Significance of Remittances from Canada’s Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program. Health Studies. https://scholars.wlu.ca/brantford_hs/4
Websites & Digital Articles
“Canada’s Dirty Secret”: An Interview with Gabriel Allahdua about migrant farm workers’ pandemic experience – Syndemic Magazine. (2022). Retrieved February 27, 2026, from https://syndemic.ca/2022/03/08/canadas-dirty-secret-an-interview-with-gabriel-allahdua-about-migrant-farm-workers-pandemic-experience/
Mussett, Ben. (n.d.). Canadian Farmworkers Union—British Columbia—An Untold History. Retrieved February 23, 2026, from https://bcanuntoldhistory.knowledge.ca/1980/canadian-farmworkers-union
Government of Canada (2020, April 24). Countries of citizenship for temporary foreign workers in the agricultural sector. https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=3210022101
Migrant Workers Alliance. (2024, June 17). 50th Anniversary of Mexican Seasonal Agricultural Workers in Canada. https://migrantworkersalliance.org/50-years-mexico/
Sioufi, V. (2023, September 15). Fires and farmworkers: Climate justice means improving protections for migrant farmworkers – CCPA. https://www.policyalternatives.ca/news-research/fires-and-farmworkers/
UFCW Canada—Canada’s Private Sector Union. (n.d.). UFCW Canada – Canada’s Private Sector Union. Retrieved February 27, 2026, from http://www.ufcw.ca/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33817:a-history-of-ufcw-s-advocacy-for-agricultural-workers&catid=58&Itemid=2420&lang=en
Vescera, Z. (2023). Extreme Weather Is Sending Migrant Farmworkers Home Early. The Tyee. Retrieved February 23, 2026, from https://thetyee.ca/News/2023/08/29/Extreme-Weather-Migrant-Farmworkers/
Digital Media
Min Sook, L. (2016). Migrant Dreams [Video recording]. http://www.migrantdreams.ca/synopsis
Min Sook, L. (2003). El Contrato [Video recording]. Retrieved March 9, 2026, from https://www.nfb.ca/film/el_contrato/
National Farmers Union Canada. (2023, December 13). What Kind of Seed are These? With Gabriel Allahdua (Creating the Future We Want) [Video recording]. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-RxzlTsWI0
Our Podcast Documentary – Collaborative Network to End Exploitation. (n.d.). Retrieved March 9, 2026, from https://www.cnee.ca/podcast/
Ramoutar, B. (2021, August 5). The Hands That Feed Us [Video recording]. https://nccpeterborough.ca/the-hands-that-feed-us/
Stevenson, V. (Director). (2021). Migrant Farmworkers in Quebec Find Ways to Speak About Their Conditions [Video recording]. Retrieved February 23, 2026, from https://www.cbc.ca/i/phoenix/player/syndicate/?mediaId=1976593987804