The Canadian temporary migration regime has been widely criticised for its failure to provide protections and address migrant needs. This article contributes to these critiques by analysing how temporariness impacts the sense of belonging and perceptions of social inclusion among farmworkers in Canada. The sense of inclusion and belonging is vital for individuals’ sense of well-being, and therefore, a critique of temporariness is incomplete without it. Based on ethnographic research conducted in 2018–2019 in a rural community in Southwestern Ontario, Canada, it documents that, despite certain initiatives to make temporary migrant workers feel welcomed, migrants have not grown attached to this place. We situate farmworkers’ limited sense of belonging in the exclusionary architecture of this labour migration regime. We argue that two structural elements in particular make it impossible for most migrant farmworkers to feel connected to Canada—the forced separation from their families, and the lack of mobility within the labour force.

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“我们是这个地方的一部分，但我不认为我属于这个地方。” 安大略省西南部农民工的临时性、社会包容性和归属感

加拿大临时移民制度因其未能提供保护和解决移民需求而受到广泛批评。本文通过分析临时性如何影响加拿大农场工人的归属感和社会包容感，为这些批评做出贡献。包容感和归属感对个人的幸福感至关重要，因此，没有它，对暂时性的批判是不完整的。根据 2018-2019 年在加拿大安大略省西南部农村社区进行的民族志研究，它记录了尽管采取了一些让临时移民工人感到受欢迎的举措，但移民并没有对这个地方产生依恋。我们将农场工人有限的归属感置于这种劳务移民制度的排他性架构中。