Detalles del documento

Imprima y guarde

Tesis

Legitimizing disentitlements? Employer perceptions of foreign domestic workers in the live-in caregiver program

Fecha

2006

Autores

Kelly Lynn Winter

Resumen

This study investigates the gate-keeping role of Canadian employers of foreign domestic migrant workers in the Live-in Caregiver Program and the practice of exclusionary citizenship for migrant workers in Canada. By identifying employer attitudes and perceptions of their workers and their rights, this study aims to expose the ideological and institutional processes of Canada's migrant worker policies that legitimize the migrant worker as the non-citizen "other." Employers were recruited by snowball sampling techniques that resulted in 14 semi-structured, in-depth interviews. Interviews revealed employer perceptions of their nanny/housekeeper and their set of rights and suggest that employers hold racialized and gendered stereotypes of their caregiver. Furthermore, citizen employers justified employee disentitlements by the non-citizenship status of their caregiver. This research contributes to the existing literature on the citizenship rights of temporary workers in Canada by examining foreign domestic workers' lack of entitlements, through the employer perceptions and their critical gate-keeping position that significantly affect foreign caregiver citizenship.

Universidad

University of Guelph (Canada)

Lugar de publicación

Canada

Archivos adjuntos

Conexiones

Los sectores económicos

Occupations in services - Domestic work

Tipos de contenido

Análisis de políticas

Los grupos destinatarios

Legisladores, Periodistas, Conciencia Pública, Los empleadores y las agencias de empleo, Los investigadores, Los sindicatos, y ONG / grupos comunitarios / redes de solidaridad

Relevancia geográfica

Canada, Ontario, Alberta, Manitoba, Quebec, Colombia Británica, Otras provincias, Federal, Nueva Escocia, y National relevance

Esferas de la actividad

Antropología, Estudios culturales y étnicas, Estudios en Género y Sexualidad, Derecho, Gestión de Recursos Humanos, Ciencias Políticas, y Socioligie

Idiomas

Inglés