Migrant Workers In Canada

Author : Aziz Choudry,Adrian A. Smith
Publisher : PM Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 43,6 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 : Patti Tamara Lenard,Christine Straehle
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 53,6 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 : North-South Institute (Ottawa, Ont.)
Publisher : Institut Nord-Sud
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Agricultural laborers, Foreign
ISBN : PSU:000058995198

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Migrant Workers in Canada by North-South Institute (Ottawa, Ont.) Pdf

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 : Nandita Rani Sharma
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 43,7 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 : Abigail Bess Bakan,Daiva Stasiulis,Daiva K. Stasiulis
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 0802075959

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Not One of the Family by Abigail Bess Bakan,Daiva Stasiulis,Daiva K. Stasiulis Pdf

A collection of original essays by researchers and workers-turned-activists, it documents how citizen and non-citizen workers are treated unequally in the Canadian system and demonstrates how workers can resist exploitation.

Author : Jorge Frozzini,Alexandra Law
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 41,5 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 : Gabriel Allahdua
Publisher : Between the Lines
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781771136198

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Harvesting Freedom by Gabriel Allahdua Pdf

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.

Author : Maxwell Brem
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Agricultural laborers, Foreign
ISBN : OCLC:1059212867

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Migrant Workers in Canada by Maxwell Brem Pdf

Author : Sarah Grayce Marsden
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780774837767

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Enforcing Exclusion by Sarah Grayce Marsden Pdf

Migrant workers, though long welcomed in Canada for their labour, are often excluded from both workplace protections and basic social benefits such as health care, income assistance, and education. Through interviews with migrants and their advocates, Marsden shows that people with precarious migration status face barriers in law, policy, and practice, affecting their ability to address adverse working conditions and their access to institutions such as hospitals, schools, and employment standards boards. Enforcing Exclusion recasts what migration status means to both the state and to non-citizens, questioning the adequacy of human-rights-based responses in addressing its exclusionary effects.

Author : Luin Goldring,Patricia Landolt
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781442614086

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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 : Leah F. Vosko,Tanya Basok,Cynthia Spring
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783031177040

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Transnational Employment Strain in a Global Health Pandemic by Leah F. Vosko,Tanya Basok,Cynthia Spring Pdf

The 2020-22 COVID-19 pandemic reinforced inequalities between the global North and South, amplifying pre-existing disparities between migrant and citizen/permanent resident workers in receiving and sending states worldwide. In contexts such as Canada, it also underscored that many workers in occupations and sectors deemed “essential” enough to be exempt from stay-at-home orders and other public safety measures are migrants, a sizeable number of whom sustain Canada’s food supply through their work in its agricultural industry. This book explores the dynamics behind the pandemic’s deleterious outcomes for this vital group of workers, highlighting migrant farmworkers importance to the Canadian economy, society, and the world of work alongside the conditions they endured before and during the global health pandemic through policy and media analysis and open-ended interviews with workers enrolled in two streams of Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) as well as migrants without legal status employed in agriculture located in Ontario and Quebec. Advancing the notion of transnational employment strain, the authors derive insight from the employment strain model, a framework for understanding risks to the physical and psychological well-being of workers, and expand it to account for migrants’ relationships across transnational space.

Author : A. Bakan,D. Stasiulis
Publisher : Springer
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2003-12-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230286924

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Negotiating Citizenship by A. Bakan,D. Stasiulis Pdf

Negotiating Citizenship explores the growing inequalities associated with nation-based citizenship from the perspective of migrant women workers who have made their way from impoverished Third World countries to work in Canada in the caregiving industries of domestic service and nursing. The study demonstrates the impact of the global political economy, public and private gatekeeping mechanisms, and racialized and gendered stereotypes on the contested relationship between citizen-employers and non-citizen female migrant workers in Canada.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:915565415

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Unfree Labour? by Anonim Pdf

Author : Harald Bauder
Publisher : Canadian Scholars’ Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781551304052

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Immigration and Settlement by Harald Bauder Pdf

Immigration and Settlement: Challenges, Experiences, and Opportunities draws on a selection of papers that were presented at the international Migration and the Global City conference at Ryerson University, Toronto, in October of 2010. Through the use of international and Canadian perspectives, this book examines the contemporary challenges, experiences, and opportunities of immigration and settlement in global, Canadian, and Torontonian contexts. In seventeen comprehensive chapters, this text approaches immigration and settlement from various thematic angles, including: rights, state, and citizenship; immigrants as labour; communities and identities; housing and residential contexts; and emerging opportunities. Immigration and Settlement will be of interest to academics, researchers and students, policy-makers, NGOs and settlement practitioners, and activists and community organizers.

Author : Denise L. Spitzer
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780802098368

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Engendering Migrant Health by Denise L. Spitzer Pdf

Voluntary migrants to Canada are generally healthier than the average Canadian, but after ten years in the country they report poorer health and higher rates of chronic disease than those born here. Troublingly, women — particularly those from non-European countries — experience the most precipitous decline in health. What contributes to this deterioration, and how can its effects be mitigated? Engendering Migrant Health brings together researchers from across Canada to address the intersections of gender, immigration, and health in the lives of new Canadians. Focusing on the context of Canadian policy and society, the contributors illuminate migrants' testimonies of struggle, resistance, and solidarity as they negotiate a place for themselves in a new country. Topics range from the difficulties of Francophone refugees and the changing roles of fathers, to the experiences of queer newcomers and the importance of social unity to communal and individual health.