Immigrant And Migrant Workers Organizing In Canada And The United States

Author : Jorge Frozzini,Alexandra Law
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781498518130

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Immigrant and Migrant Workers Organizing in Canada and the United States by Jorge Frozzini,Alexandra Law Pdf

Across Canada and the United States, immigrant workers face important obstacles at work and in the broader society, whether their immigration status is temporary, permanent, or nonexistent. Hyper-precarious workers of all status groups, and their allies in unions and worker centers, are organizing to improve their conditions. In this book, Jorge Frozzini and Alexandra Law, two longtime volunteers with a Canadian worker center, draw on their own experience, in-depth interviews, and academic work from the fields of law, communication studies, and social movement theory, to produce a tactically focused, theoretically informed introduction to immigrant worker organizing in a neoliberal era. Frozzini and Law describe the phenomenon of employment precarity in the context of U.S. and Canadian labor history, explaining how union certification and collective bargaining function under the law. Without directing activists toward any single best strategy, they cover tactical and ethical questions raised when organizers offer casework as a recruitment and research tool. The royalties from this book will go to the Immigrant Workers Centre, Montreal.

Author : Aziz Choudry,Adrian A. Smith
Publisher : PM Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781629632582

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Unfree Labour? by Aziz Choudry,Adrian A. Smith Pdf

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 : Luin Goldring,Sailaja Krishnamurti
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780774840392

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Organizing the Transnational by Luin Goldring,Sailaja Krishnamurti Pdf

Growing recognition of transnational practices and identities is changing the way scholars and activists ask questions about migration. Organizing the Transnational articulates a multi-level cultural politics of transnationalism to frame contemporary analyses of immigration and diasporas. With chapters by academics and activists working from diverse perspectives, the volume moves beyond the conventional focus on states and migrants to consider a wide array of institutions, actors, and forms of mobilization that shape transnational engagements and communities. Its unique approach will inform the work of researchers, practitioners, and activists interested in the dynamics of transnational social spaces.

Author : Patti Tamara Lenard,Christine Straehle
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780773540415

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Legislated Inequality by Patti Tamara Lenard,Christine Straehle Pdf

A timely analysis of Canadian temporary labour migration policies.

Author : Nandita Rani Sharma
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780802048837

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Home Economics by Nandita Rani Sharma Pdf

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 : Mostafa Henaway
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-20T00:00:00Z
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781773636146

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Essential Work, Disposable Workers by Mostafa Henaway Pdf

Across the world we are witnessing daily the lethal effects of a rapid and scary hardening of borders, ignited and justified by manufactured fear and scarcity. In such conditions, highly exploitative ideas of “managed migration” are presented as reasonable and just. And temporary worker programs, championed by countries like Canada and the US, are presented as an acceptable response to both acute labour shortages and ugly nationalist feelings. For this, all workers pay the price in the form of dwindling rights and diminished solidarity. This book is the result of decades of thinking, organizing and deep research on the global struggle for equality and freedom in and against an increasingly walled world. Through this immediate and up-close account, Henaway takes the reader on a journey across a familiar consumer landscape of corporate power — from Amazon and Dollarama to chicken farms and late night rideshares —offering a vivid analysis of the consequences of a system built to marginalize, exploit and divide people through the creation of exclusionary categories of belonging. In Essential Work, Disposable Workers, Henaway offers a counter proposal to the global border, arguing that we reject control over freedom of movement as a means to halt a race to the bottom for all working people and instead build solidarity across struggles for decent work and justice. In this moving account of a global system of hyper-exploitation, Henaway weaves stories of struggle with his own on-the-ground experience and expansive research, to explain the workings of a global system of managed precarity that affects everyone who works, albeit unequally. Written with the unique verve and insight of a committed scholar and decades-long grassroots organizer, Essential Work, Disposable Workers offers a vivid analysis to help us grasp the cruel consequences of borders and points to an alternative future.

Author : Natalia Popova (Labor economist),Mustafa Hakki Özel,International Labour Office. Labour Migration Branch,International Labour Office. Department of Statistics
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Emigration and immigration
ISBN : 9221326713

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ILO Global Estimates on International Migrant Workers by Natalia Popova (Labor economist),Mustafa Hakki Özel,International Labour Office. Labour Migration Branch,International Labour Office. Department of Statistics Pdf

If the right policies are in place, labour migration can help countries respond to shifts in labour supply and demand, stimulate innovation and sustainable development, and transfer and update skills. However, a lack of international standards regarding concepts, definitions and methodologies for measuring labour migration data still needs to be addressed. This report gives global and regional estimates, broken down by income group, gender and age. It also describes the data, sources and methodology used, as well as the corresponding limitations. The report seeks to contribute to the 2018 Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration and to achieving SDG targets 8.8 and 10.7

Author : Franca Iacovetta,Paula Draper,Robert Ventresca
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105020164872

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A Nation of Immigrants by Franca Iacovetta,Paula Draper,Robert Ventresca Pdf

This Collection Brings Together A Wide Array of Writings On Canadian immigrant history, including many highly-regarded, influential essays. Though most of the chapters have been published before, the editors also commissioned original contributions to include material on understudied topics within the field. The readings highlight the social history of immigrants, their pre-migration traditions as well as migration strategies and Canadian experiences, their work and family worlds, and their political, cultural, and community lives. They explore the aggressively public display of ethno-religious rituals, race riots, and union protests, the quasi-private worlds of all-male boarding-houses and female domestics toiling in isolated workplaces, and the intrusive power that government and even well-intentioned social reformers wielded over immigrants deemed dangerous or otherwise in need of supervision. Organized partly chronologically and largely by theme, the topical sections will offer students a glimpse into Canada's complex immigrant past. In order to facilitate classroom discussion, each section contains an introduction that contextualizes the readings and raises some questions for debate. A Nation of Immigrants will be useful both in specialized courses in Canadian immigration history and in courses on broader themes in Canadian history.

Author : A. A. Choudry,Mondli Hlatshwayo
Publisher : Wildcat
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Arbeitnehmer
ISBN : 0745335837

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Just Work? by A. A. Choudry,Mondli Hlatshwayo Pdf

As the struggle against neoliberalism becomes ever more global, Just Work will be the definitive book on the growing social and political power of one its major forces: migrant labor. From trade unions in South Africa to resistance in oppressive Gulf states, migrating forest workers in the Czech Republic, and illegal workers' organizations in Hong Kong, Just Work brings together a wealth of lived experiences and frontline struggles for the first time. Highlighting developments in the wake of austerity and attacks on traditional forms of labor organizing, the contributors show how workers are finding new and innovative ways of resisting. The result is both a rich analysis of where the movement stands today and a reminder of the potentially explosive power of migrant workers in the years to come.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:915565415

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Unfree Labour? by Anonim Pdf

Author : Stefania Marino,Judith Roosblad,Rinus Penninx
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781788114080

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Trade Unions and Migrant Workers by Stefania Marino,Judith Roosblad,Rinus Penninx Pdf

This timely book analyses the relationship between trade unions, immigration and migrant workers across eleven European countries in the period between the 1990s and 2015. It constitutes an extensive update of a previous comparative analysis – published by Rinus Penninx and Judith Roosblad in 2000 – that has become an important reference in the field. The book offers an overview of how trade unions manage issues of inclusion and solidarity in the current economic and political context, characterized by increasing challenges for labour organizations and rising hostility towards migrants.

Author : Luin Goldring,Patricia Landolt
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781442663879

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Producing and Negotiating Non-Citizenship by Luin Goldring,Patricia Landolt Pdf

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 : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Health and Medicine Division,Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice,Roundtable on the Promotion of Health Equity
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-28
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309482172

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Immigration as a Social Determinant of Health by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Health and Medicine Division,Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice,Roundtable on the Promotion of Health Equity Pdf

Since 1965 the foreign-born population of the United States has swelled from 9.6 million or 5 percent of the population to 45 million or 14 percent in 2015. Today, about one-quarter of the U.S. population consists of immigrants or the children of immigrants. Given the sizable representation of immigrants in the U.S. population, their health is a major influence on the health of the population as a whole. On average, immigrants are healthier than native-born Americans. Yet, immigrants also are subject to the systematic marginalization and discrimination that often lead to the creation of health disparities. To explore the link between immigration and health disparities, the Roundtable on the Promotion of Health Equity held a workshop in Oakland, California, on November 28, 2017. This summary of that workshop highlights the presentations and discussions of the workshop.

Author : Pong-Sul Ahn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Alien labor, South Asian
ISBN : UOM:39015070088227

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Migrant Workers and Human Rights by Pong-Sul Ahn Pdf

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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 4 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Immigrants
ISBN : IND:30000125975775

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Welcome to the United States by Anonim Pdf