ABSTRACT
This chapter adopts a theoretical approach that uses gender and transnational migration to analyze the migratory experience of female Mexican farmworkers in the Seasonal Agricultural Workers (SAW) Program in Canada. It analyzes the SAW Program in light of local, regional and global economic policies because that allows for the identification of temporary work regimes organized on the basis of gender, race, class, ethnicity, nationality and citizenship status. Theoritical frameworks examines the interaction between the destination society and the society of origin by stressing human agency, subjectivity and the strategies that the migrants use to provide care for their families. The chapter uses theoritical approach to understand the migratory patterns of employment of Mexican female workers in the SAW Program in Canada. By drawing on quantitative and qualitative data, the chapter examines Canada's temporary work visa program and labor policies' gendered impact on female Mexican migrant workers who are mothers.
