Analysis Of El Contrato

In the documentary El Contrato by Min Sook Lee, talks about how migrant works are working temporary jobs in Leamington Ontario. This town is viewed as a greenhouse capital, delivering huge amounts of produce foods seasonally. This documentary also talks about the critique of the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program (SAWP). It’s very sad that we live in a world where we have people working for us for produce and we can not even respect them as humans in anyway. We treat them like they are dogs and not actual human beings. The migrant workers in the documentary faced issues in areas like: working and living conditions, access to health care and isolation (lack of community). Exploring these issues this identifies some of the key problems with
In the film despite the requirement of “stable” living conditions, at least 10 migrant workers are often forced to share a small building and with a single washroom along with lacking of heating during the winter or air conditioning during the summer. This is because the employers do not want to pay extra for there workers to be living in a proper living arrangements which results to the workers having limited choices. The key problem with housing is that there is little to no consequences for providing substandard accommodations. Even though the worker knows very well that where they are living is not fair but they also know it is a risk to report these conditions. It is recommended that working in a different country, it is provided by a home to be inspected by appropriate government people. Which means, these government people should be coming by to check the living conditions of the migrant worker. Which did not happen at all in the city of Leamington. Having already established that migrant workers often have a fear of reporting issues, and if they do report a problem, it often goes unresolved or the worker is punished, and the issues of the problem becomes very clear. This causes workers to be abused and have their basic human rights
We see in the Western society the race is shown as white people are doctors or lawyers and any other race is considering farmers or lower then that. Race is often shown where the social styles of a career. It comes with the low education people, often served by minority racial groups and immigrants. Since they are connected with employments that don't have a decent wage, it is difficult for them to build their economic and social status by finishing post-secondary school. These racial groups have a tendency to live in the part of town where the poverty level is high, which is really how individuals come to consider them to be “dirty or unclean”, contrasted with the area of town where the residents are predominately white and are center or high class, who have effectively finished post secondary