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

Petsa

2006

May-akda

Kelly Lynn Winter

Buod

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.

Unibersidad

University of Guelph (Canada)

Lugar ng publikasyon

Canada

Kalakip

Connections

Pang-ekonomiyang sektor

Occupations in services - Domestic work

Mga Uri ng Nilalaman

Policy analysis

Target na mga grupo

Mambabatas, Mamamahayag, Pampublikong Kamalayan, Employer at recruitment ahensya, Mananaliksik, Mga unyon, and NGO / komunidad group / network ng pagkakaisa

Geographical kaugnayan

Canada, Ontario, Alberta, Manitoba, Quebec, British Columbia, Iba pang mga Lalawigan, Pederal, Nova Scotia, and National relevance

Spheres ng aktibidad

Aghamtao, Cultural Studies at Etniko, Pag-aaral sa Kasarian at iyag, Karapatan, Human Resource Management, Pampulitika Agham, and Socioligie

Wika

Ingles