DURHAM REGION
MIGRANT WORKER NETWORK

These are people hired through the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program (SAWP). The participating countries are the following:

• Anguilla

• Antigua and Barbuda

• Barbados

• Dominica

• Grenada

• Jamaica

• Mexico

• Montserrat

• St. Kitts-Nevis

• St. Lucia

• St. Vincent and the Grenadines

• Trinidad and Tobago

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More information about the SAWP here at Government of Canada website.

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Migrant Farm Workers are roughly 38,000 temporary foreign agricultural workers who work in Canada each year, majority in Ontario. They are young or middle-aged men from developing countries; small proportion are women. Most have low levels of education and literacy, generally do not speak English unless it is their first language. They work from 6 to 7 days a week, 8 to 12 hours a day and can increase substantially during the peak season. They often lack sufficient breaks, health and safety training, and personal protective equipment.

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