Workplace Rights For Immigrants In Bc

Author : Habiba Zaman,Cecilia Diocson,Rebecca Scott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124038386

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Workplace Rights for Immigrants in BC by Habiba Zaman,Cecilia Diocson,Rebecca Scott Pdf

The 2002 changes to the Employment Standards Act reduced the enforcement and monitoring role of the government, undermined workers' knowledge of their rights by removing the requirement to post the ESA in workplaces, reduced employment-related benefits, restricted worker control over their schedules and hours of work, and slashed the minimum wage for first-time workers, many of whom are recent imm [...] To provide a snapshot of Filipinos in BC, the paper Survey data and narratives then presents an analysis of the demographic profile reflected in the survey, including some of the challenges respondents from filipino immigrant faced. [...] According to BC labour researcher David Fairey, "This is the first time that a specific group of employees, by virtue of membership in a union, have been excluded by the Act [ESA]."20 According to Fairey, this has several major implications, and two are particularly pertinent to this study: the provisions of a collective agreement may be below the minimum standards set out in the ESA; and, it enco [...] In fact, the survey, as analysed in the next section, shows that the changes to the ESA exacerbate the economic insecurity already experienced by recent immigrants and other vulnerable workers. [...] Several scholars have demonstrated that immigrants in Canada encounter racism in the labour market as well as in the workplace.26 As the goal of this study was to examine the changes to the ESA and its impacts upon immigrants' economic security, this issue was intentionally avoided in the survey.

Author : David Fairey
Publisher : Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives = Centre Canadien de
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Agricultural laborers
ISBN : 0886275814

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Cultivating Farmworker Rights by David Fairey Pdf

Author : Habiba Zaman
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-06T00:00:00Z
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781773634081

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Asian Immigrants in “Two Canadas” by Habiba Zaman Pdf

Canada is experiencing a major demographic shift, with two-thirds of the population in major cities predicted to belong to racialized groups, particularly Asian newcomers, by 2031. But how are these immigrants faring in this new Canada? Employing the International Labour Organization’s concept of “basic security” and the voices of immigrants themselves, Asian Immigrants in “Two Canadas” demonstrates that their security – such as work, job, employment, and voice and representation – has been compromised in multi-dimensional ways. Changes to immigration policy and the neoliberal restructuring of the Employment Standards Act in British Columbia have led to further marginalization within the labour market and the creation of deregulated and hazardous workplaces – resulting in the emergence of “two Canadas” within the Canadian welfare state. Representing a diverse group of immigrants, this book demonstrates a shared experience of precariousness and insecurity – an experience that has led to a broad- based alliance of Asian immigrant workers aimed at addressing workplace security and rights.

Author : Sarah Grayce Marsden
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,8 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 : Arcturus Productions Ltd,Canada. Employment and Immigration Canada (Department)
Publisher : Hull, Québec : Employment and Immigration Canada
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Assimilation (Sociology)
ISBN : UCLA:L0072111230

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Working with Newcomers by Arcturus Productions Ltd,Canada. Employment and Immigration Canada (Department) Pdf

Author : Ernst & Young
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Forest policy
ISBN : OCLC:1077948701

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Human Resources in the British Columbia Wood Products Industry by Ernst & Young Pdf

Author : Shauna Butterwick,Carole Roy
Publisher : Springer
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789463004831

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Working the Margins of Community-Based Adult Learning by Shauna Butterwick,Carole Roy Pdf

This volume gathers stories about how various art and creative forms of expression are used to enable voices from the margins, that is, of underrepresented individuals and communities, to take shape and form. Voice is not enough; stories and truths must be heard, must be listened to. And so the stories gathered here also speak to how creative processes enable conditions for listening and the development of empathy for other perspectives, which is essential for democracy. The chapters, including some that describe international projects, illustrate a variety of art-making practices such as poetry, visual art, film, theatre, music, and dance, and how they can support individuals and groups at the edges of mainstream society to tell their story and speak their truths, often the first steps to valuing one’s identity and organizing for change. Some of the authors are community-based artists who share stories thus bringing these creative endeavors into the wider conversation about the power of arts-making to open up spaces for dialogue across differences. Art practices outlined in this book can expand our visions by encouraging critical thinking and broadening our worldview. At this time on the earth when we face many serious challenges, the arts can stimulate hope, openness, and individual and collective imaginations for preferred futures. Inspiration comes from people who, at the edges of their community, communicate their experience.

Author : Abdul R. JanMohamed
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000084061

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Reconsidering Social Identification by Abdul R. JanMohamed Pdf

This volume investigates how four socially constructed identities (race, gender, class and caste) can be rethought as matrices designed to accumulate various kinds of socio-economic values and to translate and transfer these values from one group to another. Essays in the anthology also attempt to compare the mechanisms deployed by various groups to consolidate identificatory investments. Drawn mainly for the fields of literary and cultural studies, the essays are grouped in four categories. Essays collected under ‘Theoretical Approaches’ scrutinize the relative value of various approaches; those collected under ‘Considerations of Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation’ examine the interaction between these three categories in formation of identities; those grouped under ‘Comparative Analysis of African-American and Dalit Writing’ provide comparative analyses of the literary productions of these two oppressed groups; and, finally, those under ‘The Persistence of Racialized Perceptions’ focus on the role of ideologically inflected perception of European colonizers and the persistence of such perception in the categorization and treatment of colonial migrants to the metropolis.

Author : Luin Goldring,Patricia Landolt
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 50,6 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 : Jeff Shantz
Publisher : Algora Publishing
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780875868097

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Racism and Borders by Jeff Shantz Pdf

Despite claims about globalization, we see increasing surveillance, tightened restrictions and growing punitive regimes at international borders. This critical collection examines processes of racialization in relation to border regulations and restrictions. It analyses border controls, racism, and representations of race, within multinational contexts as aspects of neo-liberal governance. It also looks at means by which people resist or challenge racialization. This collection uses the lenses of sociology, criminology, art, literary criticism and political science to critically examine varied processes of racialization, criminalization and resistance in relation to borders with reference to multi-national contexts in the current period. a. a"

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Canada
ISBN : UCLA:L0104581517

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Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Canada by Anonim Pdf

By examining newcomers' progress over time, the LSIC affords the possibility of assisting researchers and policy-makers to go beyond existing descriptions of immigrant integration outcomes to an examination of how newcomers achieve these outcomes -- in essence, the "how" and "why" dimensions. While the full value of the survey will be reached when the three waves of data collection are completed, this first wave of data provides important benchmark information. The focus of this publication is on the early settlement experiences of immigrants, from pre-migration to the first six months after arrival. First an overview of the LSIC population is provided, looking at both pre-migration characteristics as well as those at arrival. This is followed by a comprehensive look at the first six months of the settlement process, looking at things such as health, housing and mobility; education and training taken since arrival; employment, income and the general perception of the immigrant's settlement experience. Finally, a more in-depth look at problems and difficulties newcomers experience in four key areas of integration is presented: accessing health services, finding housing, accessing education and training, and finding employment. Challenges to integration are examined in terms of what help was needed, received and from whom, or needed and not received.

Author : The Book Project Collective
Publisher : Second Story Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781927583869

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Resilience and Triumph by The Book Project Collective Pdf

A collection of true stories from 54 racialized immigrant and refugee women create an eclectic mix of three generations of voices. Women in their 20s to those in their 70s provide snapshots that begin in the 1960s and go to the present. Together these vividly recounted entries capture historical and everyday moments that reveal striking similarities and differences. Resilience and Triumph provides readers with an eye-opening glimpse into 50 years of immigrant women's lives in Canada.

Author : Leah F. Vosko
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781501742156

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Disrupting Deportability by Leah F. Vosko Pdf

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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : British Columbia
ISBN : CHI:25612206

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Climate of British Columbia by Anonim Pdf

Author : Janice R. Foley,Patricia L. Baker
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780774858984

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Unions, Equity, and the Path to Renewal by Janice R. Foley,Patricia L. Baker Pdf

Trade unions in Canada are losing their traditional support base, and membership numbers could sink to US levels unless unions recapture their power. Unions, Equity, and the Path to Renewal brings together a distinguished group of union activists and equity scholars who trace how traditional union cultures, practices, and structures have eroded solidarity and activism and created an equity deficit in Canadian unions. Informed by a feminist vision of unions as instruments of social justice, the contributors argue that equity within unions is not simply one possible path to union renewal � it is the only way to reposition organized labour as a central institution in workers' lives.