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Quiet struggles: Migrant farmworkers, informal labor, and everyday resistance in Canada
International Journal of Comparative Sociology ( IF 2.0 ) Pub Date : 2018-12-05 , DOI: 10.1177/0020715218815543
Amy Cohen 1 , Elise Hjalmarson 2
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Utilizing James C. Scott’s germinal concept of everyday resistance, we examine the subtle, daily acts of resistance carried out by Mexican and Jamaican migrant farmworkers in the Okanagan Valley, British Columbia. We argue that despite finding themselves in situations of formidable constraint, migrant farmworkers utilize a variety of “weapons of the weak” that undermine the strict regulation of their employment by employers and state authorities. We also argue that everyday forms of resistance are important political acts and as such, they warrant inclusion in scholarly examinations. Indeed, by reading these methods neither as “real” resistance nor as political, we risk reproducing the same systems of power that de-legitimize the actions, agency, and political consciousness of subaltern and oppressed peoples. After a brief discussion on the concept of everyday resistance, we provide an overview of Canada’s Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP), establishing the conditions that drive migrant workers to resist and drawing connections between the regulatory framework of the SAWP, the informality of the agricultural sector, and migrant labor. Finally, we examine specific instances of resistance that we documented over 3 recent years through ethnographic fieldwork and as community organizers with a grassroots migrant justice organization. We assert the importance of situating migrants’ everyday acts of resistance at the center of conceptualizations of the broader movement for migrant justice in Canada and worldwide.

中文翻译:

无声的斗争:加拿大的农民工、非正规劳动力和日常抵抗

利用詹姆斯 C. 斯科特关于日常抵抗的萌芽概念,我们研究了不列颠哥伦比亚省奥肯那根谷的墨西哥和牙买加农民工进行的微妙的日常抵抗行为。我们认为,尽管发现自己处于强大的约束条件下,农民工仍使用各种“弱者的武器”,破坏了雇主和国家当局对其就业的严格监管。我们还认为,日常形式的抵抗是重要的政治行为,因此,它们保证被纳入学术考试。事实上,通过将这些方法既不视为“真正的”抵抗也不视为政治手段,我们冒着重现同样的权力体系的风险,这些权力体系使底层人民和被压迫人民的行动、代理和政治意识去合法化。在对日常抵抗的概念进行简要讨论后,我们概述了加拿大的季节性农业工人计划 (SAWP),建立了驱使移民工人抵抗的条件,并在 SAWP 的监管框架与农业的非正式性之间建立了联系。部门和农民工。最后,我们检查了我们最近 3 年通过民族志实地考察以及作为基层移民司法组织的社区组织者记录的具体抵抗实例。我们主张将移民的日常抵抗行为置于加拿大和世界范围内更广泛的移民正义运动概念化的中心的重要性。建立促使农民工抵制的条件,并在 SAWP 的监管框架、农业部门的非​​正规性和农民工之间建立联系。最后,我们检查了我们最近 3 年通过民族志实地考察以及作为基层移民司法组织的社区组织者记录的具体抵抗实例。我们主张将移民的日常抵抗行为置于加拿大和世界范围内更广泛的移民正义运动概念化的中心的重要性。建立促使农民工抵制的条件,并在 SAWP 的监管框架、农业部门的非​​正规性和农民工之间建立联系。最后,我们检查了我们最近 3 年通过民族志实地考察以及作为基层移民司法组织的社区组织者记录的具体抵抗实例。我们主张将移民的日常抵抗行为置于加拿大和世界范围内更广泛的移民正义运动概念化的中心的重要性。我们检查了我们最近 3 年通过民族志实地考察以及作为基层移民司法组织的社区组织者记录的具体抵抗实例。我们主张将移民的日常抵抗行为置于加拿大和世界范围内更广泛的移民正义运动概念化的中心的重要性。我们检查了我们最近 3 年通过民族志实地考察以及作为基层移民司法组织的社区组织者记录的具体抵抗实例。我们主张将移民的日常抵抗行为置于加拿大和世界范围内更广泛的移民正义运动概念化的中心的重要性。
更新日期:2018-12-05
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