scholarly journals Non-status workers and the official discourse in Canada : a case of convenience

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristina Bidone-Kramer
Keyword(s):  
Phase Ii ◽  
Critical Assessment ◽  
Foreign Workers ◽  
Policy Changes ◽  
Standing Committee ◽  
Government Response ◽  
Official Discourse ◽  
Temporary Foreign Workers ◽  
The Government ◽  
Negative Representation

This paper makes a critical assessment of the study conducted by the CIMM (Standing Committee on Immigration and Citizenship) on undocumented and temporary foreign workers. It examines records of three moments of the process: (i) minutes of meetings during the assessment phase; (ii) the CIMM Report; (iii) and the Government Response. The argument sustained throughout the paper is that government's negative representation of non-status workers is conveniently constructed to avoid policy changes and consequently sustains the irregular movement of migrants.

scholarly journals Non-status workers and the official discourse in Canada : a case of convenience

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristina Bidone-Kramer
Keyword(s):  
Phase Ii ◽  
Critical Assessment ◽  
Foreign Workers ◽  
Policy Changes ◽  
Standing Committee ◽  
Government Response ◽  
Official Discourse ◽  
Temporary Foreign Workers ◽  
The Government ◽  
Negative Representation

This paper makes a critical assessment of the study conducted by the CIMM (Standing Committee on Immigration and Citizenship) on undocumented and temporary foreign workers. It examines records of three moments of the process: (i) minutes of meetings during the assessment phase; (ii) the CIMM Report; (iii) and the Government Response. The argument sustained throughout the paper is that government's negative representation of non-status workers is conveniently constructed to avoid policy changes and consequently sustains the irregular movement of migrants.

scholarly journals Are Temporary Foreign Workers Filling only Labor Shortages? The Case of Canada

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dominique M. Gross
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Foreign Worker ◽  
Domestic Workers ◽  
Foreign Workers ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Temporary Foreign Workers ◽  
The Government ◽  
Market Test ◽  
Term Labor ◽  
Clear Information

A temporary foreign worker (TFW) program is meant to fill short-term labor shortages and, constraints are imposed on employers for resident workers not to be affected in getting jobs. Often, employers consider that such a program imposes time-consuming administrative barriers and they pressure the government to obtain easier and faster access to TFWs. The Canadian policy was modified in two Western provinces from a required high time-consuming labor market test for all occupations to prove labor shortages to an immediate hiring of TFWs for occupations in a given list. Using DDD, it is tested whether priority to local workers was ensured under the new program. The analysis shows that much faster access to TFWs accelerated rises in unemployment in some high- and low-skill occupations and, impacts were quite different across the two provinces and industries. Thus, some domestic workers have been negatively affected. The main cause was a lack of clear information about local occupational labor shortages and political supports to employers for cheaper labor.

scholarly journals Flood, Livelihood Displacement, and Poverty in Nigeria: Plights of Flood Victims, 2012–2018

2021 ◽  
pp. 2535-2545
Author(s):  
Joachim Chukwuma Okafor
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Critical Assessment ◽  
Policy Analyst ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Government Response ◽  
Nigerian Population ◽  
The Government

AbstractThe impacts of flood on the Nigerian population over the years have been enormous. This is because the attendant associated risks such as destruction of lives and properties, livelihood displacement, and impoverishment of victims arising from increasing flood cases have constituted a threat to the citizens’ survival and therefore inform the attention the menace has drawn among scholars, policy analyst. This chapter has as its primary aim, a critical assessment of the impacts of government responses over the plight of victims of flooding in Nigeria over the years under review. Thus, special attention is given in this chapter to the various barriers or challenges facing government response to the plight of flood victims in Nigeria. Finally, some valuable steps, which if taken will reduce these barriers or challenges, are outlined. Though, the study adopted the use of secondary sources of data collection via content analysis, the experiences and knowledge gathered in this chapter will be strategically useful to people and organizations interested in the government of Nigeria’s response to the plight of flood victims, barriers inhibiting the success of fund utilization in reducing the suffering and impoverishment of the flood victims, number of deaths, and population displaced as a result.

scholarly journals Supporting Canada’s COVID-19 resilience and recovery through robust immigration policy and programs

FACETS ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 686-759
Author(s):  
Victoria Esses ◽  
Jean McRae ◽  
Naomi Alboim ◽  
Natalya Brown ◽  
Chris Friesen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
International Students ◽  
Immigration Policy ◽  
Foreign Workers ◽  
Temporary Foreign Workers ◽  
Refugee Claimants ◽  
Integration Policies ◽  
The Government ◽  
Government Of Canada ◽  
Policies And Programs ◽  
Permanent Residents

Canada has been seen globally as a leader in immigration and integration policies and programs and as an attractive and welcoming country for immigrants, refugees, temporary foreign workers, and international students. The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed some of the strengths of Canada’s immigration system, as well as some of the fault lines that have been developing over the last few years. In this article we provide an overview of Canada’s immigration system prior to the pandemic, discuss the system’s weaknesses and vulnerabilities revealed by the pandemic, and explore a post-COVID-19 immigration vision. Over the next three years, the Government of Canada intends to bring over 1.2 million new permanent residents to Canada. In addition, Canada will continue to accept many international students, refugee claimants, and temporary foreign workers for temporary residence here. The importance of immigration for Canada will continue to grow and be an integral component of the country’s post-COVID-19 recovery. To succeed, it is essential to take stock, to re-evaluate Canada’s immigration and integration policies and programs, and to expand Canada’s global leadership in this area. The authors offer insights and over 80 recommendations to reinvigorate and optimize Canada’s immigration program over the next decade and beyond.

scholarly journals Public governance, agility and pandemics: a case study of the UK response to COVID-19

2021 ◽  
pp. 002085232098340
Author(s):  
Paul Joyce
Keyword(s):  
Leadership Role ◽  
Public Confidence ◽  
Strategic Decisions ◽  
Public Governance ◽  
Local Initiative ◽  
Government Response ◽  
Local Resources ◽  
The Government ◽  
The One ◽  
The Uk

The UK government’s leaders initially believed that it was among the best-prepared governments for a pandemic. By June 2020, the outcome of the collision between the government’s initial confidence, on the one hand, and the aggressiveness and virulence of COVID-19, on the other, was evident. The UK had one of the worst COVID-19 mortality rates in the world. This article explores the UK government’s response to COVID-19 from a public administration and governance perspective. Using factual information and statistical data, it considers the government’s preparedness and strategic decisions, the delivery of the government response, and public confidence in the government. Points for practitioners Possible lessons for testing through application include: Use the precautionary principle to set planning assumptions in government strategies to create the possibility of government agility during a pandemic. Use central government’s leadership role to facilitate and enable local initiative and operational responses, as well as to take advantage of local resources and assets. Choose smart government responses that address tensions between the goal of saving lives and other government goals, and beware choices that are unsatisfactory compromises.

Girl Interrupted

2011 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 463-480 ◽  
Author(s):  
Máiréad Enright
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Government Response ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Government

This article discusses the case of Shekinah Egan, an Irish Muslim girl who asked to be allowed to wear the hijab to school. It traces the media and government response to her demand, and frames that demand as a citizenship claim. It focuses in particular on a peculiarity of the Irish response; that the government was disinclined to legislate for the headscarf in the classroom. It argues that – perhaps counter-intuitively – the refusal to make law around the hijab operated to silence the citizenship claims at the heart of the Egan case. To this extent, it was a very particular instance of a broader and ongoing pattern of exclusion of the children of migrants from the Irish public sphere.

scholarly journals Does Norwegian alcohol policy favour lower alcohol content beverages? A historical overview

2012 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-23
Author(s):  
Øyvind Horverak
Keyword(s):  
Alcohol Policy ◽  
Alcoholic Beverages ◽  
Historical Overview ◽  
Policy Changes ◽  
Alcohol Content ◽  
Wine Consumption ◽  
Main Thesis ◽  
Lower Alcohol ◽  
Cultural Sphere ◽  
The Government

Aims A historical overview of the relation between Norwegian alcohol policy and problems caused by different alcoholic beverages during the last two centuries. Results & Conclusions The main thesis is that the concrete shaping of Norwegian alcohol policy changes according to the beverage which is supposed to cause most harm. Traditionally, this beverage has been liquor, and the Norwegian alcohol policy has mainly been occupied with the evils of spirits. Problems following from the consumption of beer and wine have been seen as relatively modest. At times, these weaker beverages have been viewed as a temperate alternative to the stronger spirits. After WWII, the government chose a policy which tended to favour wine over liquor and beer. Wine consumption was related to a somewhat more sophisticated and cultural sphere than the rude consumption of beer and spirits.

Financial incentives and psychiatric services in Australia: an empirical analysis of three policy changes

2007 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. P. Doessel ◽  
Roman W. Scheurer ◽  
David C. Chant ◽  
Harvey Whiteford
Keyword(s):  
Policy Change ◽  
Financial Incentives ◽  
Psychiatric Services ◽  
Separate Determination ◽  
Policy Changes ◽  
Special Cases ◽  
Medicare Benefit ◽  
Commonwealth Government ◽  
The Government ◽  
New Item

Australia has a national, compulsory and universal health insurance scheme, called Medicare. In 1996 the Government changed the Medicare Benefit Schedule Book in such a way as to create different financial incentives for consumers or producers of out-of-hospital private psychiatric services, once an individual consumer had received 50 such services in a 12-month period. The Australian Government introduced a new Item (319) to cover some special cases that were affected by the policy change. At the same time, the Commonwealth introduced a ‘fee-freeze’ for all medical services. The purpose of this study is two-fold. First, it is necessary to describe the three policy interventions (the constraints on utilization, the operation of the new Item and the general ‘fee-freeze’.) The new Item policy was essentially a mechanism to ‘dampen’ the effect of the ‘constraint’ policy, and these two policy changes will be consequently analysed as a single intervention. The second objective is to evaluate the policy intervention in terms of the (stated) Australian purpose of reducing utilization of psychiatric services, and thus reducing financial outlays. Thus, it is important to separate out the different effects of the three policies that were introduced at much the same time in November 1996 and January 1997. The econometric results indicate that the composite policy change (constraining services and the new 319 Item) had a statistically significant effect. The analysis of the Medicare Benefit (in constant prices) indicates that the ‘fee-freeze’ policy also had a statistically significant effect. This enables separate determination of the several policy changes. In fact, the empirical results indicate that the Commonwealth Government underestimated the ‘savings’ that would arise from the ‘constraint’ policy.

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