Migrant Workers In Canada

Author : Patti Tamara Lenard
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773540415
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Legislated Inequality written by Patti Tamara Lenard and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2012 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timely analysis of Canadian temporary labour migration policies.

Author : Aziz Choudry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781629631493
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unfree Labour? written by Aziz Choudry and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores labour migration to Canada and how public policies of worker programs function in the context of work and capitalist restructuring. Over the past decade, Canada has experienced considerable growth in labour migration. Moreover, temporary labour migration has replaced permanent immigration as the primary means by which people enter Canada. This book explores labour migration to Canada and how public policies of temporary and guest worker programs function in the global context of work and capitalist restructuring.

Author : Aziz Choudry
Publisher : PM Press
ISBN 13 : 1629632589
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unfree Labour? written by Aziz Choudry and published by PM Press. This book was released on 2016-08-15 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past decade, Canada has experienced considerable growth in labour migration. Moreover, temporary labour migration has replaced permanent immigration as the primary means by which people enter Canada. Utilizing the rhetoric of maintaining competitiveness, Canadian employers and the state have ushered in an era of neoliberal migration alongside an agenda of austerity flowing from capitalist crisis. Labour markets have been restructured to render labour more flexible and precarious, and in Canada as in other high-income capitalist labour markets, employers are relying on migrant and immigrant workers as “unfree labour.” This book explores labour migration to Canada and how public policies of temporary and guest worker programs function in the global context of work and capitalist restructuring. Contributors are directly engaged with the issues emerging from the influx of temporary foreign workers and Canada’s “creeping economic apartheid”—the ongoing racialization of economic inequality for many workers of colour. The collection also examines how migrant and immigrant workers have organized for justice and dignity in Canada. As opposed to a good deal of current writing that often ignores the working conditions and struggles of racialized migrant and immigrant workers, the authors contend that migrant workers, labour organizations, and migrant worker allies have engaged in a wide range of organizing initiatives with significant political and economic impacts. These have included both court challenges to secure legal rights to unionization and grassroots alternatives to traditional forms of unionization through workers’ centres. Contributors include Aziz Choudry, Adrian A. Smith, Sedef Arat-Koç, Abigail B. Bakan, Joey Calugay, Jennifer Jihye Chun, Jill Hanley, Jah-Hon Koo, Mostafa Henaway, Deena Ladd, Marco Luciano, Loïc Malhaire, Adriana Paz Ramirez, Geraldina Polanco, Chris Ramsaroop, Eric Shragge, Sonia Singh, Christopher C. Sorio, and Mark Thomas.

Author : Nandita Rani Sharma
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 0802048838
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Home Economics written by Nandita Rani Sharma and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Home Economics is an urgent and much-needed reminder that society must pay careful attention to how nationalist ideologies construct 'homelands' that essentially leave the vast majority of the world's migrant peoples homeless.

Author : North-South Institute (Ottawa, Ont.)
Publisher : Institut Nord-Sud
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Migrant Workers in Canada written by North-South Institute (Ottawa, Ont.) and published by Institut Nord-Sud. This book was released on 2006 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the past 40 years, farmers in Ontario and other provinces have been meeting some of their seasonal labour needs by hiring temporary workers from Caribbean countries and, since 1974, from Mexico under the Canadian Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program (CSAWP).

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9264931392
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Recruiting Immigrant Workers: Canada 2019 written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-13 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canada has not only the largest in terms of numbers, but also the most elaborate and longest-standing skilled labour migration system in the OECD. Largely as a result of many decades of managed labour migration, more than one in five people in Canada is foreign-born, one of the highest shares in the OECD. 60% of Canada’s foreign-born population are highly educated, the highest share OECD-wide.

Author : Luin Goldring
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442614080
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Producing and Negotiating Non-citizenship written by Luin Goldring and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most examinations of non-citizens in Canada focus on immigrants, people who are citizens-in-waiting, or specific categories of temporary, vulnerable workers. In contrast,Producing and Negotiating Non-Citizenship considers a range of people whose pathway to citizenship is uncertain or non-existent. This includes migrant workers, students, refugee claimants, and people with expired permits, all of whom have limited formal rights to employment, housing, education, and health services. The contributors to this volume present theoretically informed empirical studies of the regulatory, institutional, discursive, and practical terms under which precarious-status non-citizens – those without permanent residence – enter and remain in Canada. They consider the historical and contemporary production of non-citizen precarious status and migrant illegality in Canada, as well as everyday experiences of precarious status among various social groups including youth, denied refugee claimants, and agricultural workers. This timely volume contributes to conceptualizing multiple forms of precarious status non-citizenship as connected through policy and the practices of migrants and the institutional actors they encounter.

Author : J. Samuel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Jobs and Effects of Migrant Workers in Northern America written by J. Samuel and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Leah F. Vosko
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501742167
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Disrupting Deportability written by Leah F. Vosko and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-12-15 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an original and striking study of migration management in operation, Disrupting Deportability highlights obstacles confronting temporary migrant workers in Canada seeking to exercise their labor rights. Leah F. Vosko explores the effects of deportability on Mexican nationals participating in Canada's Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP). Vosko follows the decade-long legal and political struggle of a group of Mexican SAWP migrants in British Columbia to establish and maintain meaningful collective representation. Her case study reveals how modalities of deportability—such as termination without cause, blacklisting, and attrition—destabilize legally authorized temporary migrant agricultural workers. Through this detailed exposé, Disrupting Deportability concludes that despite the formal commitments to human, social, and civil rights to which migration management ostensibly aspires, the design and administration of this "model" temporary migrant work program produces conditions of deportability, making the threat possibility of removal ever-present.

Author : Gabriel Allahdua
Publisher : Between the Lines
ISBN 13 : 1771136197
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Harvesting Freedom written by Gabriel Allahdua and published by Between the Lines. This book was released on 2023-03-07 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this singular firsthand account, a former migrant worker reveals a disturbing system of exploitation at the heart of Canada’s farm labour system. When Gabriel Allahdua applied to the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program in Canada, he thought he would be leaving his home in St. Lucia to work in a country with a sterling human rights reputation and commitment to multiculturalism. Instead, breakneck quotas and a culture of fear dominated his four years in a mega-greenhouse in Ontario. This deeply personal memoir takes readers behind the scenes to see what life is really like for the people who produce Canada’s food. Now, as a leading activist in the migrant justice movement in Canada, Gabriel is fighting back against the Canadian government to demand rights and respect for temporary foreign labourers. Harvesting Freedom shows Canada’s place in the long history of slavery, colonialism, and inequality that has linked the Caribbean to the wider world for half a millennium—but also the tireless determination of Caribbean people to fight for their freedom.