Temporary Foreign Workers and Regional Labour Market Disparities in Canada

2012 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 233-263 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dominique M. Gross ◽  
Nicolas Schmitt
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Foreign Workers ◽  
Temporary Foreign Workers ◽  
Regional Labour Market

scholarly journals Constructing the nation through immigration law and legal processes of belonging

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valerie Molina
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Market Segmentation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Immigration Law ◽  
Foreign Workers ◽  
Legal Subjectivity ◽  
Temporary Foreign Workers ◽  
Labour Market Segmentation ◽  
Legal Policies

The aim of this critical literature review is to define the connection between immigration policies and the construction of a national identity, and to discuss what the implications of such connections may be. Tracing how the legal subjectivity of the migrant has developed throughout time and through policy reveals how messages about the nation and Others are created, sustained, and circulated through legal policies. What values are implicit within Canadian immigration policy? How does the migrant ‘other’ help ‘us’ stay ‘us’? How do nationalist ideologies construct the Other and how is this reflected in labour market segmentation? Constructing a national identity involves categorizing migrants into legal categories of belonging, a process in which historical positions of power are both legitimized and re-established through law. Discourses about temporary foreign workers provide examples of how the Other is framed in limited terms and in opposition to that of legitimate members of Canadian society. Key Terms: Citizenship, discourse, subjectivity, immigration law, identity, power, humanitarianism, temporary foreign workers, labour market segmentation.

scholarly journals Oddities in the Canadian Labour Force in the 21st Century

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 84-96
Author(s):  
Christell Simeon
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Foreign Workers ◽  
Temporary Foreign Workers ◽  
Economic Climate ◽  
Skills Mismatch

A paradox is a term that can be used to describe an economic climate where there are many unemployed persons and yet still a large influx of temporary foreign workers? This is the labour dynamics currently existing in Canada; growing numbers of unemployed persons in provinces where simultaneously thousands of temporary foreign workers are entering the labour market to fill job vacancies. Some researchers have rationalized that this phenomenon is caused by a skills mismatch – the imbalance between the skills employees possess and those skills required to perform a particular task or role in a job (Lundberg, 2007).

Editorial: Expert commissions and migration policy making

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip L. Martin ◽  
Eugen Stark
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Migration Policy ◽  
Foreign Workers ◽  
Immigration Reform ◽  
Graphic Data ◽  
Temporary Foreign Workers ◽  
Advisory Commission ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Us Immigration

More countries are turning to expert commissions to assess labour market and demo-graphic data to help to answer the fundamental migration questions of how many, from where, and in what status newcomers should arrive. Britain has had a Migration Advisory Commission since 2008, and most US immigration reform proposals include commissions to assess labour market, demographic, and other data to provide advice or set quotas on the number of immigrants and temporary foreign workers admitted.

scholarly journals Constructing the nation through immigration law and legal processes of belonging

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valerie Molina
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Market Segmentation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Immigration Law ◽  
Foreign Workers ◽  
Legal Subjectivity ◽  
Temporary Foreign Workers ◽  
Labour Market Segmentation ◽  
Legal Policies

The aim of this critical literature review is to define the connection between immigration policies and the construction of a national identity, and to discuss what the implications of such connections may be. Tracing how the legal subjectivity of the migrant has developed throughout time and through policy reveals how messages about the nation and Others are created, sustained, and circulated through legal policies. What values are implicit within Canadian immigration policy? How does the migrant ‘other’ help ‘us’ stay ‘us’? How do nationalist ideologies construct the Other and how is this reflected in labour market segmentation? Constructing a national identity involves categorizing migrants into legal categories of belonging, a process in which historical positions of power are both legitimized and re-established through law. Discourses about temporary foreign workers provide examples of how the Other is framed in limited terms and in opposition to that of legitimate members of Canadian society. Key Terms: Citizenship, discourse, subjectivity, immigration law, identity, power, humanitarianism, temporary foreign workers, labour market segmentation.

scholarly journals Making Temporary Permanent: The Silent Transformation of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program

Just Labour ◽  
1969 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason Foster
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Foreign Worker ◽  
Foreign Workers ◽  
Economic Downturn ◽  
Documentary Evidence ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Temporary Foreign Workers ◽  
Term Labour

During the mid-2000s the number of temporary foreign workers (TFWs)present in Canada increased dramatically, more thantripling in eight years. Thebulk of the increase was due to an expansion of theTemporary Foreign WorkerProgram (TFWP) to include lower-skilled occupations. The stated reason for theexpansion was to address short-term labour shortages. Contrary to expectations,upon the onset of the economic downturn in 2008, the number of TFWs did notdecrease significantly, and appears to be increasing again in 2010 and 2011. Thispaper tracks the evolution of the TFWP from a stable program designed toaddress short-term labour needs in high-skilled occupations into a broaderlabour market tool. The paper examines the most recent available statistical datafor the TFWP and other documentary evidence to argue the role of the TFWP inCanada’s labour market has quietly shifted, becoming a permanent, large-scalelabour pool for many industries, reminiscent of European migrant workerprograms. The paper also examines the potential labour market implications ofan expanded, entrenched TFWP.

Yearly quotas and country-reserved shares in Italian immigration policy

2008 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paolo Cuttitta
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Immigration Policy ◽  
Foreign Workers ◽  
Irregular Migration ◽  
Quota System ◽  
Italian Immigration ◽  
Migration Flows

Regular immigration to Italy is based on a quota system setting annual ceilings to legal entries. Reserved shares are granted to single countries or categories of countries. Reserved shares have been increased; they are used as an incentive to obtain the cooperation of countries of origin in stemming irregular migration flows. The total quota of regular immigration has gradually increased too. Still, it does not fully respond to the growing demand of foreign workers on the labour market, and quotas seem to be used as crypto-regularisations rather than as an instrument for regulating legal entries.

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