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Transient servitude: migrant labour in Canada and the apartheid of citizenship

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Petsa

2010

May-akda

Harsha Walia

Buod

Shifts in Canada’s immigration policy, most recently linked to the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) with the US and Mexico, have created an increased reliance on temporary migrant workers, who constitute a disposable workforce, driven from their own countries by the same forces of neoliberal capitalism which foster their super-exploitation in the Canadian labour market. In this article, the operation of two migrant worker programmes, the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program (SAWP) and Live-in Caregiver Program (LCP), are considered in the context of the province of British Columbia. The various means by which migrant workers are maintained in a state of vulnerability, available as a pool of cheap labour but excluded from belonging to the nation, are discussed. The article concludes by examining examples and further possibilities of alliances across social movements in BC in order to advance the struggle for human dignity.

Journal title

Race & Class

Dami

52

Numero

1

Page numbers

71-84

Editor

SAGE publications

Lugar ng publikasyon

Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore, Washington DC

Kalakip

Connections

Pang-ekonomiyang sektor

Agriculture and horticulture workers, Occupations in services - Domestic work, Sales and service occupations - general, Trades, transport and equipment operators and related occupations - general, Natural resources, agriculture and related production occupations - general, Labourers in food, beverage and associated products processing, Dancers, and Iba

Mga Uri ng Nilalaman

Policy analysis and Dokumentado kaso ng pang-aabuso

Target na mga grupo

Mambabatas, Mamamahayag, Pampublikong Kamalayan, 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

Karapatan

Wika

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