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Justice For Whom? Migrant Workers in Canada

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Title
Justice For Whom? Migrant Workers in Canada
Abstract
This chapter explores the relationship between the social organization of migrant workers’ unfreedom through the conditionality of legal status and how the creation and deployment of precarious migrant labour regulates national labour markets. It begins by drawing the connections between neoliberal labour regimes, immigration controls, and the exploitation of migrant workers. It shows how precarious migrant status is linked to precarious employment, and how the categories of “foreigner” and “citizen” are used to justify the unfreedom and hyper-exploitation of migrant workers. Focusing on “low-skilled” occupations within the food services sector in which precarious (low-paid and insecure) jobs predominate, this chapter then describes the “low-skilled” (since October 2014 called “low-wage”) stream of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program, its growth, the “public” reaction to foreigners taking Canadian jobs, and the government’s response to this controversy.
Book Title
Contemporary Inequalities and Social Justice in Canada.
Place
Toronto
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Date
2018
Pages
69-86
Language
English
ISBN
978-1-4426-3408-4
Library Catalog
Open WorldCat
Extra
OCLC: 1044627431
Notes

Statement of responsibility: edited by Janine Brodie.

Citation
Fudge, J. (2018). Justice For Whom? Migrant Workers in Canada. In Contemporary Inequalities and Social Justice in Canada. (pp. 69–86). University of Toronto Press. https://utorontopress.com/9781442634084/contemporary-inequalities-and-social-justice-in-canada/