The question of migration, land, labour, and food are intricately intertwined. In this book Harvesting Freedom: The Life of a Migrant Farmworker in Canada is a living narrative that recounts life in St. Lucia, and gradually reveals the enmeshed connections of slavery, colonialism, and racial capitalism manifested in Canada’s farm labour system. The book narrated by Gabriel Allahdua, a migrant farmworker becoming an incomparable migrant justice activist, is evocative of the power of critical research methodologies and knowledge production. Edward Dunsworth in his collaboration with Allahdua, brings to us, a first-hand account in a book format, all while setting up the stage and weaving a rich scholarship in the introduction. This is how decolonizing knowledge can look like in academia.

Les questions qui concernent la migration, la terre, le travail et l’alimentation sont étroitement liées. Le livre Harvesting freedom: The life of a migrant worker in Canada est un récit animé qui raconte la vie à Sainte-Lucie et révèle progressivement le maillage entre l’esclavage, le colonialisme et le capitalisme racial qui se manifestent dans le système de travail agricole du Canada. Narré par Gabriel Allahdua, un travailleur agricole migrant devenu un militant hors pair en faveur de la justice pour les migrants, le livre est suggestif quant au pouvoir des méthodologies de recherche critique et de la production de connaissances. Par sa collaboration avec Allahdua, Edward Dunsworth nous offre un récit de première main sous la forme d’un livre, tout en préparant le terrain et en mobilisant une riche érudition dans l’introduction. Voilà à quoi peut ressembler la décolonisation du savoir dans le monde universitaire.

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• Nasser, N., (2025), "Review of Harvesting freedom: The life of a migrant worker in Canada by Gabriel Allahdua", HSSCommons: (DOI: 10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i3.656)

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1. Gabriel Allahdu
2. labour
3. memoir
4. migration
5. seasonal agricultural worker program

Original publication: Nasser, Noura. "Review of Harvesting freedom: The life of a migrant worker in Canada by Gabriel Allahdua." Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l'alimentation, vol. 10, no. 3, 2023, pp. 136-138. DOI: 10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i3.656. This material has been re-published in an unmodified form on the Canadian HSS Commons with the permission of Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l'alimentation. Copyright © the author(s). Work published in CFS/RCÉA prior to and including Vol. 8, No. 3 (2021) is licensed under the Creative Commons CC BY license. Work published in Vol. 8, No. 4 (2021) and after is licensed under the Creative Commons CC BY-SA license. For details, see creativecommons.org/licenses/.