By Marie-France Labrecque, Laval University

The book examines the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program, the result of a bilateral agreement between Mexico and Canada. It continues the many studies on seasonal migration in that country. However, it differs because it takes into account the indigenous component of the contingent of 20,000 Mexican women and men who come to Canada each year. The book focuses specifically on Maya migrants from the Yucatán. The author positions herself primarily at their place of origin to reconsider seasonal migration in light of ethnographic data, a feminist approach, and the mobility paradigm. She shows that this migration is made up of mobility but also of immobility both at the point of origin and at the destination. In short, it is a dialectic of mobility embedded at the heart of the regional migration system and affecting both migrants and those who remain.