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.

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.

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.

Download or read book Hiring Foreign Workers written by Canada. Employment and Immigration Canada and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Enduring Work written by Catherine E. Connelly and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2023-05-15 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you believed most of what’s said about the Canadian Temporary Foreign Worker program, you might naturally assume that there is a trade-off between workers’ poor experiences with the program and employers’ significant benefits. In reality, the experiences of workers are far worse than is commonly acknowledged, while employers are not reaping as much benefit as the public might suppose. In Enduring Work Catherine Connelly draws on over one hundred interviews with people connected to different aspects of this program, analyzing their experiences from the perspective of organizational behaviour and human resources management. She compares the lived reality of agricultural workers, in-home caregivers, and low- and high-wage workers, showing how and why each group is vulnerable to mistreatment, albeit in different ways. She further explores how employment agencies and immigration consultants contribute to program abuses. Critically, Enduring Work provides the perspectives of employers, distinguishing between the reluctant users of the program who follow the rules and the reckless users who do not. Groundbreaking in its analysis of an issue very much in the news, Enduring Work unpacks the harms within Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker program and offers nuanced strategies to improve it.

Download or read book Not One of the Family written by Abigail Bess Bakan and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

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.

Download or read book Temporary Foreign Worker Guidelines written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Canadian government facilitates the entry of foreign workers who can enhance the functioning of the Canadian labour market. This manual sets out the policies, rules, and procedures related to the entry into Canada of such workers. Sections of the manual cover the following: the legislative authority for authorizing foreign labour; the policy & program framework; general eligibility criteria; reviewing & assessing applications for employment authorization; applications at a port of entry ; inland applications; rules relating to specific occupations & categories; temporary entry of business persons under trade agreements; and entry of foreign representatives and their dependants.

Download or read book The Canadian Temporary Foreign Worker Program written by Delphine Nakache and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, the number of temporary foreign workers admitted to Canada has more than doubled. In this study, the authors examine the Temporary Foreign Worker Program, in order to determine the Canadian and Albertan approaches to integrating and protecting these migrants. They consider three possible policy perspectives on the legal status of temporary foreign workers, according to whether the country of employment (1) sees temporary labour migration as an opportunity to integrate the workers; (2) is indifferent to their future position in society; or (3) tries to prevent their integration. In order to determine into which policy perspective Canada fits, the authors analyze three important integration mechanisms: employment, family unity and access to permanent residency. They also argue that the short-term focus of Canada's temporary labour migration policy will not help the country realize its long-term labour market needs and is unfair to the vast majority of temporary foreign workers, who are expected to spend years in Canada without contributing to society in the long run.--Document.

Download or read book Temporary Foreign Workers written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication offers an overview of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program in Canada and provides a summary of the benefits and concerns surrounding temporary migration. A "temporary foreign worker" or "migrant worker" is a foreign national engaged in paid work activity who is authorized, with the appropriate documentation, to enter and to remain in Canada for a limited period. A "work permit" allows a foreign national to engage in employment in Canada, and a "visa" allows a foreign national to enter Canada. Depending on the nature of the activity in Canada and the country of origin of the foreign worker, a work permit and/or visa may not be necessary. This paper will focus on authorized temporary foreign workers at a national level and does not describe provincial programs for temporary foreign workers.

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.

Download or read book Temporary Foreign Workers Program Employment and Social Development Canada written by Canada. Office of the Auditor General and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book How Temporary Were Canada s Temporary Foreign Workers written by Elena Prokopenko and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Temporary foreign worker programs have become an increasingly important component of international migration to Western developed countries. However, there is little knowledge on how long foreign workers stay in the host country and what determinants are associated with their migratory trajectories. Using a national longitudinal administrative dataset of temporary foreign workers (TFWs) in Canada, this study examines their length and type of stay in Canada. It further examines the likelihood of staying given individual demographic characteristics, source-country attributes, host-country institutional factors and local community conditions. The results show that the majority of TFWs stayed in Canada only for a short period, while the majority of those who stayed for a long period obtained permanent resident status. Host-country institutional constraints play a dominant role in determining the length and type of stay of TFWs in Canada"--Abstract.

Download or read book Temporary Foreign Workers and Non status Workers written by Canada. Parliament. House of Commons. Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Hiring Foreign Workers Facts For Canadian Employers written by Canada. Employment and Immigration Canada (Department) and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Working Temporarily in Canada Facts for Foreign Workers written by Canada. Employment and Immigration Canada (Department) and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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.