ABSTRACT
This chapter suggests an alternative model to analyze how neoliberal migration management requires focusing not only on the notions of workfare and prisonfare, but also on the theory of fields' theoretical framework. It analyzes role of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in labor contract for Guatemalan temporary foreign workers who are employed in farms in Canada. The chapter examines how IOM gained a leading role in this program, and then lost it at the end of the 2000s. It scrutinizes a 2009 labor contract prepared by the IOM and another one prepared by a private firm in 2011, Amigo Laboral, managed by former IOM employees. The chapter examines the contracts signed by Guatemalan workers. It focuses on a few: recruitment, mandatory deposit and worker's protection in Canada. The chapter emphasizes the striking absence of any contract between the IOM and the Guatemalan workers who are recruited in the framework of the Programa de Trabajo Agrcolas Temporal en Cnada (PTAT-C).
