El Contrato
Migrant Mexican workers in Canada
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- Director
- Min Sook Lee
- Language
- English
- Released
- 2003-10-18
- Runtime
- 51m
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This documentary from Min Sook Lee follows a poverty-stricken father from Central Mexico, along with several of his countrymen, as they make their annual migration to southern Ontario to pick tomatoes. For 8 months a year, the town's population absorbs 4,000 migrant workers who toil under conditions, and for wages, that no local would accept. Yet despite a fear of repercussions, the workers voice their desire for dignity and respect.
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