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RSS FeedsEvery spring, he left Mexico to pick crops in Canada. One year he didn´t come home. We expose the terrible cost of migrant work
(The Star Food)

 
 

10 october 2019 15:00:31

 
Every spring, he left Mexico to pick crops in Canada. One year he didn´t come home. We expose the terrible cost of migrant work
(The Star Food)
 


Lee este artículo en españolTLAXCALA STATE, MEXICO—The lemon-coloured house set behind a bright blue gate is Blanca Islas Perez’s great pride. Nestled in a sheltered valley, it is surrounded by farm-studded hills that come alive every morning to the sound of roosters and dogs. But the crops that paid for the one-bedroom bungalow were grown nearly 4,000 kilometres away, in the apple orchards and tobacco fields of eastern Canada.In 1984, Islas’s husband Artemio Rodriguez became part of an early wave of Mexico’s rural poor who migrate every year to plant and pick Canadian produce, hoping to provide his family a better life. Today, the couple’s front door opens into a small living room, where a portrait hangs of the couple and their five grown children.Rodriguez has been photoshopped in. In the decades since he first journeyed north, his family’s lives have changed in profound and unexpected ways, with two generations now bound to — and broken by — Canada’s Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program. As temporary foreign worker schemes expand throughout North America, the Star spent nine months reporting across Mexico and Canada to follow this cycle of migration and its impact on families. For the first time, the Star has also obtained records of thousands of complaints made by seasonal agricultural workers to the Mexican government about their Canadian employers, ranging from reports of snake-infested bunkhouses to wage theft to physical assault.On a farm in Ontario, a migrant labourer reported working more than 23 hours straight. In Quebec, another reported living conditions so unsanitary they caused a scabies outbreak. Workers in Nova Scotia reported being forced to live in an abandoned church with 36 people and no bathrooms. In British Columbia, a complaint said workers were forbidden from drinking water while working.The bulk of these complaints are never shared with the Canadian government or investigat ...


 
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