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Tesis

Up-rooted lives, deep-rooted memories: Stress and resilience among Jamaican agricultural workers in Southern Ontario

Fecha

2016

Autores

Stephanie Mayell

Resumen

The Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP) is a transnational labour
agreement between Canada, Mexico, and various Caribbean countries that brings
thousands of Jamaican migrant workers to Canada each year to work on farms. This
thesis explores Jamaican SAWP workers’ experiences of stress in Ontario, and situates
these experiences within a system of power and international inequality. When describing
their experiences of stress and suffering in Ontario, many Jamaican workers drew
analogies between historic and modern slavery under the SAWP. However, stress
discourses also inspired workers to emphasise their resilience, and many workers gave
equal attention to explaining their inherent strength as “Jamaicans”, which they associate
with national independence and the history of slavery. In this way, I suggest stress
discourses are sites of flexibility and resilience for Jamaican workers, and this thesis presents the foremost cultural, political, and historical factors that support Jamaican
workers’ resilience in Ontario. Moreover, the predominant coping strategies workers
employ in Ontario will be explored within the context of their restricted agency under the
SAWP. This thesis concludes with a discussion of stress as an expression of subjectivity
that is characterised by strength, faith, and the history of slavery.

Number of pages

107

Universidad

McMaster University

Departamento Académico

Anthropology

Nivel

Masters

Lugar de publicación

Hamilton, Ontario

Archivos adjuntos

Los sectores económicos

Agriculture and horticulture workers

Tipos de contenido

Análisis de políticas, Casos documentados de abuso, Estadísticas sobre el trabajo y las condiciones de vida, y Violación sistémica/estatal de derechos/libertades

Los grupos destinatarios

Legisladores y Los investigadores

Relevancia geográfica

Ontario

Esferas de la actividad

Agricultura, Antropología, y Ciencias de la Salud

Idiomas

Inglés