Tomorrow We’re All Going to the Harvest: Temporary Foreign Worker Programs and Neoliberal Political Economy

2014 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 502-504
Author(s):  
Delores Trevizo
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Foreign Worker ◽  
Temporary Foreign Worker Programs

scholarly journals THE INACCESSIBILITY OF JUSTICE FOR MIGRANT WORKERS: A CAPABILITIES-BASED PERSPECTIVE

2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 20-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bethany Hastie
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Foreign Worker ◽  
Capabilities Approach ◽  
Legal Rights ◽  
Regulatory Structure ◽  
Legal Remedies ◽  
The Face ◽  
Temporary Foreign Worker Programs ◽  
Access Mechanisms

This article examines the barriers migrant workers face in accessing justice, including the ability to assert legal rights in the workplace, and to access mechanisms for legal redress or remedy. Drawing on empirical research, and using the capabilities approach as a conceptual framework through which to examine these issues, this article demonstrates that the regulatory structure of the Temporary Foreign Worker Programs operates to actively constrain the ability for migrant workers to assert their rights in the workplace, and seek effective legal remedies in the face of rights violations.

scholarly journals Migrant workers and fissured workforces: CS Wind and the dilemmas of organizing intra-company transfers in Canada

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 372-396 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Tucker
Keyword(s):  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Foreign Worker ◽  
Legal Issues ◽  
International Mobility ◽  
Skilled Workers ◽  
Legal Limits ◽  
Temporary Foreign Worker Programs ◽  
Permanent Employees ◽  
Seasonal Agricultural Workers

Canadian temporary foreign worker programs have been proliferating in recent years. While much attention has deservedly focused on programs that target so-called low-skilled workers, such as seasonal agricultural workers and live-in caregivers, other programs have been expanding, and have recently been reorganized into the International Mobility Program (IMP). Streams within the IMP are quite diverse and there are few legal limits on their growth. One of these, intra-company transfers (ICTs), is not new, but it now extends beyond professional and managerial workers to more permeable and expansive categories. As a result, unions increasingly face the prospect of organizing workplaces where ICTs and other migrant workers are employed alongside permanent employees, raising difficult legal issues and strategic dilemmas. This article presents a detailed case study of one union’s response to this situation.

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