scholarly journals Neither Temporary, Nor Permanent: The Precarious Employment Experiences Of Refugee Claimants In Toronto

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samantha Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Legal Status ◽  
Temporary Workers ◽  
Precarious Employment ◽  
Refugee Claimants ◽  
Economic Needs ◽  
Precarious Legal Status

While Canada’s immigration system is shaped primarily by the nation’s economic needs, refugee claimants’ motivations are, by nature, non-economic. Resultantly, refugee claimants are often portrayed as a drain on Canadian resources. Despite this however, refugee claimants’ employment experiences remain underrepresented in the literature. This study explores the employment experiences of refugee claimants in Toronto, and finds that claimants face distinct and unique barriers stemming from their precarious legal status. Additionally, as neither temporary workers nor permanent citizens, this study finds that refugee claimants perceive employment as an integrative expression of belonging and citizenship. Through the lens of

scholarly journals Neither Temporary, Nor Permanent: The Precarious Employment Experiences Of Refugee Claimants In Toronto

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samantha Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Legal Status ◽  
Temporary Workers ◽  
Precarious Employment ◽  
Refugee Claimants ◽  
Economic Needs ◽  
Precarious Legal Status

While Canada’s immigration system is shaped primarily by the nation’s economic needs, refugee claimants’ motivations are, by nature, non-economic. Resultantly, refugee claimants are often portrayed as a drain on Canadian resources. Despite this however, refugee claimants’ employment experiences remain underrepresented in the literature. This study explores the employment experiences of refugee claimants in Toronto, and finds that claimants face distinct and unique barriers stemming from their precarious legal status. Additionally, as neither temporary workers nor permanent citizens, this study finds that refugee claimants perceive employment as an integrative expression of belonging and citizenship. Through the lens of

scholarly journals “The lottery of my life”: Migration trajectories and the production of precarity among Bangladeshi migrant workers in Singapore's construction industry

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 249-272 ◽  
Author(s):  
Grace Baey ◽  
Brenda S. A. Yeoh
Keyword(s):  
Labor Markets ◽  
Construction Industry ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Labor Migration ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Construction Workers ◽  
Host Society ◽  
Precarious Employment ◽  
Employment Conditions ◽  
Migration Industry

Within the scholarship on precarity, low-waged contract-based migrants are recognized as centrally implicated in precarious employment conditions at the bottom of neoliberal capitalist labor markets. Precarity as a socially corrosive condition stems from both the multiple insecurities of the workplace as disposable labor, and a sense of deportability as migrant subjects with marginal socio-legal status in the host society. Our study of Bangladeshi construction workers in Singapore contributes to refining understandings of precarity by approaching labor migration as a cumulative, intensively mediated process, whereby risks and vulnerabilities are compounded across different sites in migrants’ trajectories, even as they enact themselves as mobile, aspiring subjects. As a condition-in-the-making, precarity is experienced and compounded, through a continuum beginning in pre-migration indebtedness, multiplying through entanglements with the migration industry, and manifesting in workplace vulnerabilities at destination. It is most finely balanced when predictability and planning yield to arbitrary hope.

Networks of Resilience: Legal Precarity and Transborder Citizenship among the Karen from Myanmar in Thailand

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-89
Author(s):  
Indrė Balčaitė
Keyword(s):  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Life Stories ◽  
The Political ◽  
Critical Research ◽  
The Social ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Karen Refugees ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Precarious Legal Status

AbstractThis study probes the relationship between legal precarity and transborder citizenship through the case of the Karen from Myanmar in Thailand. Collected through ethnographic multi-sited fieldwork between 2012 and 2016, interconnected individual life stories evolving across the Myanmar-Thailand border allow the critical interrogation of the political and legal categories of ‘migrancy’, ‘refugeeness’, and ‘citizenship’, teasing out their blurry boundaries in migrants’ experience. Following the recent critical research in legal ethnography, this study demonstrates that legal precarity is not simply an antithesis to citizenship. The social and legal dimensions of citizenship may diverge, creating in-between areas of not-yet-full-citizenship with varying levels of heft (Macklin 2007). The article consists of three parts. First, it offers a theoretical framework to reconcile the Karen legal precarity (even de facto statelessness) and citizenship, even on both sides of the border (legally impossible). Second, it presents the three groups of Karen in Thailand, produced by the interaction of three major waves of Karen eastward migration and tightening Thai citizenship and migration regulations: Thai Karen, refugees, and migrant workers. All three face varying levels of legal precarity of temporary status without full citizenship. However, the last part demonstrates the intertwined nature of those groups. A grassroots transborder perspective reveals the resilience of the Karen networks when pooling together resources of the hubs established on Thai soil by the three waves. Even the most recent arrivals in Thailand use those resources to move from one precarious legal status to another and even to clandestinely obtain citizenship.

scholarly journals Serial Killers & Their Easy Prey

Contexts ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 46-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jooyoung Lee ◽  
Sasha Reid
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Vulnerable Populations ◽  
Sex Workers ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Serial Killers ◽  
Serial Homicide ◽  
True Crime ◽  
Precarious Legal Status

How do serial killers get away with murder? For years, law enforcement, true crime writers, and journalists have portrayed serial killers as criminal masterminds. But, a closer look at serial homicide cases reveals a different story: Serial killers are opportunists who target marginalized and vulnerable populations. Specifically, they target street sex workers, who become “easy prey” because of their precarious legal status.

scholarly journals Elements of Precarious Employment in the Work of Scientifc and Pedagogical Workers

Lex Russica ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 74 (10) ◽  
pp. 36-46
Author(s):  
N. V. Chernykh
Keyword(s):  
Legal Status ◽  
General Structure ◽  
Working Hours ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Precarious Employment ◽  
Social Partnership ◽  
Employment Conditions ◽  
Conditions Of Employment ◽  
Labour Regulation

The paper highlights the problem of the growth of the segment of precarious employment in the work of researchers and the faculty, who work mainly in scientific and educational institutions (scientific and pedagogical workers). Besides the elements of precarious employment characteristic of the category of workers under consideration, the author considers the fixed-term nature of labor relations and the low level of the conditionally constant part of wages in the general structure of wages of scientific and pedagogical workers, which can be attributed to the legal prerequisites for the deterioration (precarization) of their labour regulation. In addition to the acts of federal legislation regulating the labor of scientific and pedagogical workers, the author analyzes the provisions of the relevant acts of social partnership for the period from 2015 untill 2023. The author highlights the problem of increasing the types of work included by the employer in the employment of the “second half of the day” of scientific and pedagogical workers without paying additional wages. The lack of legal regulation of the distribution of types of work performed by a scientific and pedagogical worker within a 36-hour working week is also noted by the author among the legal preconditions that, with appropriate law enforcement, worsen the conditions of employment of such workers due to the significantly increasing proportion of time that workers spend on achieving performance indicators and efficiency determined by the employer. In the conclusion of the paper, the author justifies amendments to the legislation in terms of regulating a fixed-term employment contract, establishing the share of guaranteed wages in the overall structure of wages, regulating the types of work included in the working hours of scientific and pedagogical workers at the level of a by-law, which cumulatively will promote sustainability of employment conditions for employees and improve their legal status.

scholarly journals Immigration, Citizenship and Racialization at Work: Unpacking Employment Precarity in Southwestern Ontario

Just Labour ◽  
2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luin Goldring ◽  
Marie-Pier Joly
Keyword(s):  
Survey Data ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Foreign Born ◽  
Precarious Employment ◽  
Precarious Work ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Foreign Birth

This paper examines the relationship between precarious employment, legalstatus, and racialization. We conceptualize legal status to include theintersections of immigration and citizenship. Usingthe PEPSO survey data weoperationalize three categories of legal status: Canadian born, foreign-borncitizens, and foreign-born non-citizens. First we examine whether the characterof precarious work varies depending on legal status, and find that it does:Citizenship by birth or naturalization reduces employment precarity across mostdimensions and indicators. Next, we ask how legal status intersects withracialization to shape precarious employment. We find that employmentprecarity is disproportionately high for racializednon-citizens. Becoming acitizen mitigates employment precarity. Time in Canada also reduces precarity,but not for non-citizens. Foreign birth and citizenship acquisition intersect withracialization unevenly: Canadian born racialized groups exhibit higheremployment precarity than racialized foreign-born citizens. Our analysisunderscores the importance of including legal status in intersectional analyses ofsocial inequality.

scholarly journals Living with Precarious Legal Status in Canada: Implications for the Well-Being of Children and Families

Refuge ◽  
2007 ◽  
pp. 101-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith K. Bernhard ◽  
Luin Goldring ◽  
Julie Young ◽  
Carolina Berinstein ◽  
Beth Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Family Member ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Foreign Born ◽  
Children And Families ◽  
Entire Family ◽  
The Status ◽  
Social Units ◽  
Precarious Legal Status

This study focused on the effects of precarious status on the well-being of fifteen participants with particular attention to their attempts to claim services, their feelings of belonging and sense of social support, and the effects of parents’ status on children. It investigates ways in which the status of one family member can affect the well-being of the entire family. Those who had children reported that the family’s status disadvantaged their children, whether they were Canadian or foreign-born, as parents’ status was used to justify denying children rights to which they are entitled by international, national, and provincial laws. The paper challenges approaches to citizenship and immigration status that fail to consider the implications of legal status for a person’s primary social units and networks.

scholarly journals Living with Precarious Legal Status in Canada: Implications for the Well-Being of Children and Families

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith K. Bernhard ◽  
Luin Goldring ◽  
Julie Young ◽  
Carolina Berinstein ◽  
Beth Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Legal Status ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Children And Families ◽  
Precarious Legal Status

Living with Precarious Legal Status in Canada: Implications for the Well-Being of Children and Families

scholarly journals Living with Precarious Legal Status in Canada: Implications for the Well-Being of Children and Families

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith K. Bernhard ◽  
Luin Goldring ◽  
Julie Young ◽  
Carolina Berinstein ◽  
Beth Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Legal Status ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Children And Families ◽  
Precarious Legal Status

Living with Precarious Legal Status in Canada: Implications for the Well-Being of Children and Families

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