| Description |
1 online resource (x, 407 pages) : illustrations, digital file |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
1 The "Difference" that Borders Make: "Temporary Foreign Workers" and the Social Organization of Unfreedom in Canada / Nandita Sharma -- 2 Buy Local, Hire Global: Temporary Migration in Canadian Agriculture / Kerry Preibisch and Jenna L. Hennebry -- 3 Mobilities and Immobilities: Globalization, Farming, and Temporary Work in the Okanagan Valley / Patricia Tomic and Ricardo Trumper -- 4 Debates on Temporary Agricultural Worker Migration in the North American Context / Christina Gabriel and Laura Macdonald -- 5 "The Exception that Proves the Rule": Structural Vulnerability, Health Risks, and Consequences for Temporary Migrant Farm Workers in Canada / Jenna L. Hennebry and Janet McLaughlin -- 6 Costly Benefits and Gendered Costs: Guatemalans' Experiences of Canada's "Low-Skill Pilot Project" / Christine Hughes -- 7 Provincial/Territorial Nominee Programs: An Avenue to Permanent Residency for Low-Skilled Temporary Foreign Workers? / Delphine Nakache and Sarah D'Aoust -- 8 Provincial Nominee Programs and Temporary Worker Programs: A Comparative Assessment of Advantages and Disadvantages in Addressing Labour Shortages / Tom Carter -- 9 The Political Economy of Migrant Live-in Caregivers: A Case of Unfree Labour? / Abigail B. Bakan and Daiva Stasiulis -- 10 From Temporary Worker to Resident: The LCP and Its Impact through an Intersectional Lens / Sara Torres, Denise L. Spitzer, Karen D. Hughes, Jacqueline Oxman-Martinez, and Jill Hanley -- 11 "Good Enough to Work? Good Enough to Stay!" Organizing among Temporary Foreign Workers / Jill Hanley, Eric Shragge, Andre Rivard, and Jahhon Koo -- 12 How Does Canada Fare? Canadian Temporary Labour Migration in Comparative Perspective / Patti Tamara Lenard. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Foreign workers -- Canada -- Social conditions.
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Foreign workers. |
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Canada. |
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Social conditions. |
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Agricultural laborers, Foreign -- Canada -- Social conditions.
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Agricultural laborers, Foreign. |
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Migrant labor -- Canada.
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Migrant labor. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Lenard, Patti Tamara, 1975-
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Straehle, Christine.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Lenard, Patti Tamara Legislated Inequality : Temporary Labour Migration in Canada Montreal : MQUP,c2014 9780773540415 |
| ISBN |
9780773586932 (electronic book) |
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0773586938 (electronic book) |
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