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Note: Some of the articles, reports, studies, documents, etc. provided on this page are in Spanish only. The views expressed are those of the writer and do not necessarily reflect the views of the AWA o www.awa-ata.ca. The AWA is not responsible for the content or views expressed on external sites.

Barndt, Deborah. Tangled Routes: Women, Work, and Globalization on the Tomato Trail. Landham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2002.

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Basok, Tanya. “Free to Be Unfree: Mexican Guest Workers in Canada.” Labour, Capital and Society 32 (2), 1999. pp. 192-221.

Basok, Tanya. Human Rights and Citizenship: the Case of Mexican Migrants in Canada. University of California, San Diego, 2003. Center for Comparative Immigration Studies.

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Basok, Tanya. “Mexican Seasonal Migration to Canada and Development: A Community-Based Comparison.” International Migration 41(2), 1999.

Basok, Tanya. (2004). “Post-National Citizenship, Social Exclusion, and Migrants’ Rights: Mexican Seasonal Workers in Canada.” Citizenship Studies 8(1), pp. 47-64.

Basok, Tanya. Tortillas and Tomatoes: Transmigrant Mexican Harvesters in Canada. Montreal: McGill University Press, 2003.

Binford, Leigh. Campos agrícolas, campos de poder: el estado mexicano, los granjeros canadienses y los trabajadores temporales mexicanos.
Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla

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Binford, Leigh (2003). “Migrant Remittances and (Under)Development in Mexico.” Critique of Anthropology 23 (3), pp. 305-336.

Binford, Leigh (2002). “Social and Economic Contradictions of Rural Migrant Contract Labor Between Taxcala, Mexico and Canada.” Culture & Agriculture 24(2), pp.1-19.

Brem, Maxwell. Migrant Workers in Canada: A Review of the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program.
Ottawa: North-South Institute.

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Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. “Rights of Migrant Farm Workers Recognized.”

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Durand, Jorge. Programas de trabajadores temporales: Evaluación y análisis del caso mexicano.
Consejo Nacional de Población. (Noviembre 2006)

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Gibb, Heather. Farmworkers from afar. Ottawa: North-South Institute, 2006.

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Gibb, Heather. Trabajadores Agrícolas de Tierras Lejanas – Resultados de un estudio internacional
sobre los trabajadores agrícolas temporales de México y el Caribe que trabajan en granjas de Ontario. (Febrero 2006)
Ottawa:North-South Institute

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Preibisch, Kerry. Patterns of Social Exclusion and Inclusion of Migrant Workers in Rural Canada.
Ottawa: North-South Institute.

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Queens University discussion on the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program with Leigh Binford (Universidad Autónoma de Puebla), Ken Forth (FARMS) and Stan Raper (UFCW Canada).
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Southern Poverty Law Center. Close to Slavery: Guestworker Programs in the United States.

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UFCW Canada: Status of Migrant Farmworkers - Reports 2010-2011.

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Verduzco, G. and M. I. Lozano (2003). “Mexican Farm Workers’ Participation in Canada’s Seasonal Agricultural Labour Market and Development Consequences in their Rural Home Communities.” Ottawa: North-South Institute.

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Verma, Veena. The Mexican and Caribbean Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program: Regulatory and Policy Framework, Farm Industry Level Employment Practices, and the Future of the Program Under Unionization.
Ottawa: North-South Institute.

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Verma, Veena. The Regulatory and Policy Framework of the Caribbean Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program.
Ottawa: North-South Institute.

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