Legislated Inequality: Temporary Labour Migration in Canada

✍ Scribed by Patti Tamara Lenard; Christine Straehle

• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 418
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

A timely analysis of Canadian temporary labour migration policies.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Contents
List of Abbreviations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 The “Difference” that Borders Make: “Temporary Foreign Workers” and the Social Organization of Unfreedom in Canada
2 Buy Local, Hire Global: Temporary Migration in Canadian Agriculture
3 Mobilities and Immobilities: Globalization, Farming, and Temporary Work in the Okanagan Valley
4 Debates on Temporary Agricultural Worker Migration in the North American Context
5 “The Exception that Proves the Rule”: Structural Vulnerability, Health Risks, and Consequences for Temporary Migrant Farm Workers in Canada
6 Costly Benefits and Gendered Costs: Guatemalans’ Experiences of Canada’s “Low-Skill Pilot Project”
7 Provincial/Territorial Nominee Programs: An Avenue to Permanent Residency for Low-Skilled Temporary Foreign Workers?
8 Provincial Nominee Programs and Temporary Worker Programs: A Comparative Assessment of Advantages and Disadvantages in Addressing Labour Shortages
9 The Political Economy of Migrant Live-in Caregivers: A Case of Unfree Labour?
10 From Temporary Worker to Resident: The LCP and Its Impact through an Intersectional Lens
11 “Good Enough to Work? Good Enough to Stay!” Organizing among Temporary Foreign Workers
12 How Does Canada Fare? Canadian Temporary Labour Migration in Comparative Perspective
Notes
Bibliography
Contributors
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