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Situated Learning and Transnational Labor Migration: The Case of Canada's Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program

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Title: Situated Learning and Transnational Labor Migration: The Case of Canada's Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program
Language: English
Authors: Perry, J. Adam (ORCID 0000-0002-6983-6581)
Source: Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory. Nov 2022 72(4):422-438.
Availability: SAGE Publications. 2455 Teller Road, Thousand Oaks, CA 91320. Tel: 800-818-7243; Tel: 805-499-9774; Fax: 800-583-2665; e-mail: journals@sagepub.com; Web site: https://sagepub.com
Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 17
Publication Date: 2022
Document Type: Journal Articles
Reports - Research
Descriptors: Situated Learning, Migrant Workers, Workplace Learning, Seasonal Laborers, Foreign Countries, Dormitories, Professional Identity, Communities of Practice
Geographic Terms: Canada
DOI: 10.1177/07417136221095480
ISSN: 0741-7136
1552-3047
Abstract: Grounded in an analysis of interviews with migrant farm workers in Canada, this article explores how learning in the everyday contexts of temporary transnational labor migration is implicated in both migrant identity formation and the social reproduction of an established and growing labor migration regime. The article focuses on thinking through how workers negotiate the intergenerational workplace tensions that permeate life in Canada's Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program. The findings suggest that through their sustained participation in the everyday social practices that develop through dormitory-living, transnational laborers learn to become migrant workers. This formation of migrant worker identities in turn contributes to the reproduction of the social relations that support the ongoing practice of circulatory labor migration in the Canadian agricultural industry.
Abstractor: As Provided
Entry Date: 2022
Accession Number: EJ1353579
Database: ERIC
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Abstract:Grounded in an analysis of interviews with migrant farm workers in Canada, this article explores how learning in the everyday contexts of temporary transnational labor migration is implicated in both migrant identity formation and the social reproduction of an established and growing labor migration regime. The article focuses on thinking through how workers negotiate the intergenerational workplace tensions that permeate life in Canada's Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program. The findings suggest that through their sustained participation in the everyday social practices that develop through dormitory-living, transnational laborers learn to become migrant workers. This formation of migrant worker identities in turn contributes to the reproduction of the social relations that support the ongoing practice of circulatory labor migration in the Canadian agricultural industry.
ISSN:0741-7136
1552-3047
DOI:10.1177/07417136221095480