scholarly journals Remaining Competitive In The Global Economy Through Temporary Migrant Labour? One "Short-TGerm" Step Forward And Two "Long-Term" Steps Backward In Canadian Immigration

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick M. Sullivan
Keyword(s):  
Global Economy ◽  
Foreign Worker ◽  
Pilot Project ◽  
Foreign Workers ◽  
National Interests ◽  
Temporary Foreign Workers ◽  
Temporary Migrant ◽  
Canadian Immigration ◽  
Short And Long Term

In the last 10 years, the creation and expansion of the Low Skill Pilot Project (LSPP) has substantially increased the scope of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program, ultimately eclipsing permanent immigration into Canada. The consequences, while positive for employers in the short-term, are perverse for Canada’s principles of social justice and equity in the long-term. It is also not clear whether the Project serves Canada’s immigration goals and national interests in the long term. This paper examines the LSPP’s creation and development, and analyzes short and long-term implications for Canadian society and the “Canada brand” of immigration, which refers to Canada’s image as a “destination of choice” for would-be immigrants the world over. This paper draws attention to the dichotomy of labour rights, wages and benefits of skilled and unskilled temporary foreign workers. A juxtaposition of two foreign worker categories within a dual labour segmentation framework illustrates this phenomenon.

scholarly journals Remaining Competitive In The Global Economy Through Temporary Migrant Labour? One "Short-TGerm" Step Forward And Two "Long-Term" Steps Backward In Canadian Immigration

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick M. Sullivan
Keyword(s):  
Global Economy ◽  
Foreign Worker ◽  
Pilot Project ◽  
Foreign Workers ◽  
National Interests ◽  
Temporary Foreign Workers ◽  
Temporary Migrant ◽  
Canadian Immigration ◽  
Short And Long Term

In the last 10 years, the creation and expansion of the Low Skill Pilot Project (LSPP) has substantially increased the scope of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program, ultimately eclipsing permanent immigration into Canada. The consequences, while positive for employers in the short-term, are perverse for Canada’s principles of social justice and equity in the long-term. It is also not clear whether the Project serves Canada’s immigration goals and national interests in the long term. This paper examines the LSPP’s creation and development, and analyzes short and long-term implications for Canadian society and the “Canada brand” of immigration, which refers to Canada’s image as a “destination of choice” for would-be immigrants the world over. This paper draws attention to the dichotomy of labour rights, wages and benefits of skilled and unskilled temporary foreign workers. A juxtaposition of two foreign worker categories within a dual labour segmentation framework illustrates this phenomenon.

scholarly journals Low-skilled temporary foreign workers in Canada : how their subordinate status is discursively legitimated through public opinion

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol Lilian Boate
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Foreign Worker ◽  
Pilot Project ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Formal Training ◽  
Foreign Workers ◽  
Temporary Foreign Workers ◽  
News Outlet

This paper attempts to show how public opinion discursively legitimates the subordinate status that low-skilled temporary foreign workers are assigned in Canada. The author first shows how this status has been created through the Temporary Foreign Worker Program and, more specifically, the Pilot Project for Occupations Requiring Lower Levels of Formal Training. In order to analyze public opinion, comments made online in reference to news outlet articles concerning low-skilled temporary foreign workers were located. Using a dual labor market theoretical framework a critical discourse analysis is performed on these comments, attempting to uncover how power and dominance are reproduced within them. The results of this analysis demonstrate how the discourse contained within public opinion helps to maintain the current status faced by this population.

scholarly journals Low-skilled temporary foreign workers in Canada : how their subordinate status is discursively legitimated through public opinion

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol Lilian Boate
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Foreign Worker ◽  
Pilot Project ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Formal Training ◽  
Foreign Workers ◽  
Temporary Foreign Workers ◽  
News Outlet

This paper attempts to show how public opinion discursively legitimates the subordinate status that low-skilled temporary foreign workers are assigned in Canada. The author first shows how this status has been created through the Temporary Foreign Worker Program and, more specifically, the Pilot Project for Occupations Requiring Lower Levels of Formal Training. In order to analyze public opinion, comments made online in reference to news outlet articles concerning low-skilled temporary foreign workers were located. Using a dual labor market theoretical framework a critical discourse analysis is performed on these comments, attempting to uncover how power and dominance are reproduced within them. The results of this analysis demonstrate how the discourse contained within public opinion helps to maintain the current status faced by this population.

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 Antarctica’s Gateways and Gatekeepers: Polar scenarios in a polarising Anthropocene

2021 ◽  
pp. 205301962110263
Author(s):  
Bob Frame ◽  
Yelena Yermakova ◽  
Patrick Flamm ◽  
Germana Nicklin ◽  
Gabriel De Paula ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Anthropogenic Change ◽  
Medium Term ◽  
Global Order ◽  
National Interests ◽  
Science And Policy ◽  
Gateway Cities ◽  
Short And Long Term ◽  
A Site ◽  
Global Imaginary

As the short to medium-term social and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic dominate world issues, longer-term environmental and geopolitical concerns remain of great concern. However, the appetite for tackling complex transdisciplinary anthropogenic change processes may be receding rather than accelerating. In this essay, we propose that Antarctica, the continent of peace and science, a place that assumes a role as the global imaginary Other, where short- and long-term horizons co-exist, is a site where signs of global regeneration in the Anthropocene should be clear. To provoke discussion, we imagine two scenarios set in the five Gateway Cities of Antarctica to 2050. In the ‘Gatekeepers’ scenario, there is a fragmented global order with minimal unregulated behaviour based on narrowly defined national interests; in the ‘Gateways’ scenario, values-based partnerships generate novel institutional arrangements. By contrasting these polar opposites as a performative act, we highlight the need for future-making at the interface between science and policy.

scholarly journals Contentious mobilities and Cheap(er) Labour: Temporary Foreign Workers in a New Brunswick Seafood Processing Community

2016 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 375-398 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Knott
Keyword(s):  
New Brunswick ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Foreign Worker ◽  
Foreign Workers ◽  
Mobility Patterns ◽  
Temporary Foreign Workers ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Seafood Processing ◽  
Over Time

Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) is highly contentious. Particularly contentious are those parts of the program that have allowed for exploitative labour practices and the replacement of Canadian workers. Mobility for employment has been increasing, and researchers have focused on different types of mobile workers ranging from international (including the TFWP) to intra-provincial migrants, often in isolation from each other. Less research has focused on multiple mobilities within one industry to understand how and why labour force composition and employee mobility patterns change over time. Also under researched is why demand exists for TFWs in areas with high unemployment. This paper uses a case study of the seafood processing industry (both wild and farmed) in a rural region of New Brunswick to explore this industry’s claims about labour shortages and serial reliance on differently mobile labour forces over time. It draws on findings from a review of relevant documents and ethnographic fieldwork including interviews. Using the historical changes in the (im)mobility patterns of processing workers in this region, this paper highlights how the increased use of the TFWP by seafood processing companies is tied to manufactured raced and gendered employer practices.

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.

scholarly journals In the Shadows" Exploring the Notion of "Community" for Temporary Foreign Workers in a Boomtown

2013 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-190 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason Foster ◽  
Alison Taylor
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Social Cohesion ◽  
Oil Sands ◽  
Foreign Worker ◽  
Rapid Expansion ◽  
Foreign Workers ◽  
Early 21St Century ◽  
Transnational Community ◽  
Temporary Foreign Workers ◽  
Northern Alberta

The rapid expansion of the oil sands in northern Alberta in the early 21st century led to the use of significant numbers of temporary foreign workers. These foreign workers became a part of the region’s so-called “shadow population.” This paper examines how the presence of foreign workers affects conceptions of community and social cohesion through the experiences of foreign workers employed in oil sands construction. The study finds foreign workers are excluded from the life of the community due to their differential exclusion, vulnerable and precarious connection to the labour market, experiences of discrimination, and conflicted transnational community identities. The paper discusses the shortcomings of community and social cohesion approaches in addressing temporary foreign workers and considers the policy limitations of a widespread temporary foreign worker program.

Short- and Long-Term Results of Total vs Subtotal Thyroid- ectomies in the Surgical Treatment of Graves' Disease

Swiss Surgery ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert ◽  
Mariéthoz ◽  
Pache ◽  
Bertin ◽  
Caulfield ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve ◽  
Nerve Palsy ◽  
Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve Palsy ◽  
Laryngeal Nerve ◽  
Long Term Results ◽  
Graves Disease ◽  
Laryngeal Nerve Palsy ◽  
Short And Long Term

Objective: Approximately one out of five patients with Graves' disease (GD) undergoes a thyroidectomy after a mean period of 18 months of medical treatment. This retrospective and non-randomized study from a teaching hospital compares short- and long-term results of total (TT) and subtotal thyroidectomies (ST) for this disease. Methods: From 1987 to 1997, 94 patients were operated for GD. Thirty-three patients underwent a TT (mostly since 1993) and 61 a ST (keeping 4 to 8 grams of thyroid tissue - mean 6 g). All patients had received propylthiouracil and/or neo-mercazole and were in a euthyroid state at the time of surgery; they also took potassium iodide (lugol) for ten days before surgery. Results: There were no deaths. Transient hypocalcemia (< 3 months) occurred in 32 patients (15 TT and 17 ST) and persistent hypocalcemia in 8 having had TT. Two patients developed transient recurrent laryngeal nerve palsy after ST (< 3 months). After a median follow-up period of seven years (1-15) with five patients lost to follow-up, 41 patients having had a ST are in a hypothyroid state (73%), thirteen are euthyroid (23%), and two suffered recurrent hyperthyroidism, requiring completion of thyroidectomy. All 33 patients having had TT - with follow-ups averaging two years (0.5-8) - are receiving thyroxin substitution. Conclusions: There were no instances of persistent recurrent laryngeal nerve palsy in either group, but persistent hypoparathyroidism occurred more frequently after TT. Long after ST, hypothyroidism developed in nearly three of four cases, whereas euthyroidy was maintained in only one-fourth; recurrent hyperthyroidy was rare.

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