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Harvest Pilgrims

Mexican and Caribbean Migrant Farm Workers in Canada

By (author) Vincenzo Pietropaolo
Categories: Photographs: collections, Photography and photographs, The Arts, Globalization, Interdisciplinary studies, Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects
Publisher: Between the Lines
Paperback : 9781897071540, 144 pages, September 2009
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Table of contents

Foreword Naomi Rosenblum

Acknowledgements

Vincenzo Pietropaolo: The Challenge of Documentary Photography by Maia-Mari Sutnik

Introduction

**Living Between Two Worlds: The Workers Who Grow Our Food

An Imaginary Letter to a Migrant Farm Worker

Further Resources Index to the Photographs**

Description

Like migratory birds, most of Canada's 20,000 'guest' farm workers arrive in the spring and leave in the autumn. Hailing primarily from Mexico, Jamaica, and smaller countries of the Caribbean, these temporary workers have become entrenched in the Canadian labour force and are the mainstay of many traditional family farms in Canada. Many of them make the trip year after year after year.

Vincenzo Pietropaolo has been photographing guest workers and recording their stories since 1984 - in the process travelling to forty locations throughout Ontario and to their homes in Mexico, Jamaica, and Montserrat. The resulting photographs have been highly acclaimed internationally through many publications and exhibitions, including a travelling show curated by the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography that opened in Mexico City.

With a foreword by Naomi Rosenblum, this beautiful and timely book of photography and exposition aims to shed light on a subject about which many Canadians know all too little.