Vosko Leah F, Spring Cynthia
Professor of Political Science and Canada Research Chair in The Political Economy of Gender & Work, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, York University, 6th Floor, Kaneff Tower York University 4700 Keele St., Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Canada.
Department of Politics, York University, Toronto, Canada.
J Int Migr Integr. 2022;23(4):1765-1791. doi: 10.1007/s12134-021-00905-2. Epub 2021 Oct 31.
In 2020, migrant farmworkers in Canada, cast as essential to sustaining the national food supply, experienced relatively high COVID-19 infection rates. Taking Southern Ontario as its focus, this article reveals how the federal government response to COVID-19 in agriculture perpetuated the effects of longstanding laws and policies requiring migrant farmworkers, circumscribed in their ability to politically mobilize on account of their institutionalized deportability, to shoulder disproportionate amounts of economic, social, and health risks. Centering the transnational character of migrant farmworkers' renewal, it identifies meaningful interventions to limit the structural disempowerment of migrant farmworkers and the externalization of their social reproduction.
2020年，被视为维持国家粮食供应不可或缺的加拿大流动农业工人，新冠病毒感染率相对较高。本文以安大略省南部为重点，揭示了联邦政府对农业领域新冠疫情的应对措施，是如何使长期存在的法律和政策的影响延续下来的。这些法律和政策要求流动农业工人承担不成比例的经济、社会和健康风险，而他们由于被制度化的可驱逐性，在政治动员能力上受到限制。以流动农业工人更新的跨国特征为核心，本文确定了有意义的干预措施，以限制流动农业工人的结构性无权状况及其社会再生产的外部化。
