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Title Liberating temporariness? : migration, work, and citizenship in an age of insecurity / edited by Leah F. Vosko, Valerie Preston, and Robert Latham.

Publication Info. Montréal ; Kingston : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2014.

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Description 1 online resource
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Part one : Security, temporary status, and rights -- Part two : International organizations and transnational dynamics of temporary work -- Part three : Temporary status, social welfare, and marginalization -- Part four : (Re)framing temporariness.
Summary Explores the complex ways in which temporariness is being institutionalized as a condition of life for a growing number of people worldwide. This book emphasizes contemporary developments, and also provides historical context on nation-state membership as the fundamental means for accessing rights in an era of expanding temporariness.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Foreign workers -- Canada.
Foreign workers.
Canada.
Foreign workers -- Canada -- Social conditions.
Social conditions.
Foreign workers.
Foreign workers -- Social conditions.
Foreign workers -- Social conditions.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Added Author Preston-Dunlop, Valerie, editor.
Vosko, Leah F., editor.
Latham, Robert, 1956- editor.
ISBN 9780773592223 (electronic book)
0773592229 (electronic book)
9780773592230 (epub)
0773592237 (epub)