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Information and communications technology (ICT) use by migrants is a growing research field. However, so far, few studies have focused on temporary migrants workers, who experience periods of migration and periods of non-migration on a yearly basis. The objective of this paper is to gain a better understanding of ICT use by 24 Mexican and Guatemalan agricultural temporary migrant workers in Quebec. The results show that migration tends to reduce the diversity of ICT use for most of the participants. However, a few of them seem to use one or more ICT (mainly the cell phone) in Quebec that they did not use in the source society. Moreover, education and citizenship are two variables that are linked to ICT use in this sample. These results are discussed in regards to the scientific literature on ICT and migration.