![]() ![]() ![]() That migration continues today … because “heir farms in Mexico, while no longer successful enough to support them, are still their homes.”Īnna is her family’s youngest child. Those opportunity seekers include seasonal laborers, also called migrants, who remain a controversial part of today’s North American labor force.Īmong those migrants are Mennonites who left Canada in the 1920s and moved to Mexico: “There they hoped to farm, withdraw from the modern world and find religious freedom.” They kept their Canadian citizenship, which allowed them to return to Canada to work when their Mexican farms could not sustain them. ![]() That is part of the reason so many came to North America in search of a fresh beginning in spite of the challenges,” writes Maxine Trottier in the story’s afterword. “Canada and the United States were built by people who valued freedom and opportunity. ![]() Here’s an immigration story that took me by total surprise: German-speaking Mennonites from Mexico who work as migrant laborers in Canada. To understand just how many levels of peripatetic displacement that involves, you have to read this fascinating (mega-award-winning!) book backwards. ![]()
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