鈥極vertly racist鈥: Lawsuit challenges Canada鈥檚 migrant farmworker system
Dr. Hyacinth Simpson featured by Al Jazeera News
February 14, 2024
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"Hyacinth Simpson, an associate English professor at 成人大片, explained that prior to that, non-white immigration to Canada was 鈥渉ighly controlled鈥.
This was because 鈥淏lack and Asian peoples particularly were considered undesirable, unassimilable, and unlikely to bring any benefits to the country 鈥 economic or otherwise,鈥 Simpson, a postcolonial scholar, told Al Jazeera in an email.
Within this system, tied employment practices are a 鈥渢ried and true way鈥 of maintaining a power imbalance between employer and employees, Simpson added. This includes tying farmworkers to specific farms or employers, preventing them from changing jobs, and even busing workers between their residences and grocery stores.