Disrupting Deportability : Transnational Workers Organize /
Vosko, Leah F.
Disrupting Deportability : Transnational Workers Organize / Leah F. Vosko. - 1 online resource (192 p.) : 2 charts
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Tables and Figures -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Deportability among Temporary Migrant Workers: An Essential Condition of Possibility for Migration Management -- 2. Getting Organized: Countering Termination without Just Cause through Certification -- 3. Maintaining a Bargaining Unit of Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP) Employees: The Challenge of Blacklisting -- 4. Sustaining Bargaining Unit Strength: The Specter of Attrition -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Appendix: Tables -- Bibliography -- Index
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In an original and striking study of migration management in operation, Disrupting Deportability highlights obstacles confronting temporary migrant workers in Canada seeking to exercise their labor rights. Leah F. Vosko explores the effects of deportability on Mexican nationals participating in Canada's Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP).Vosko follows the decade-long legal and political struggle of a group of Mexican SAWP migrants in British Columbia to establish and maintain meaningful collective representation. Her case study reveals how modalities of deportability—such as termination without cause, blacklisting, and attrition—destabilize legally authorized temporary migrant agricultural workers. Through this detailed exposé, Disrupting Deportability concludes that despite the formal commitments to human, social, and civil rights to which migration management ostensibly aspires, the design and administration of this "model" temporary migrant work program produces conditions of deportability, making the threat possibility of removal ever-present.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781501742156
10.1515/9781501742156 doi
Agricultural laborers, Foreign--British Columbia.
Deportation--British Columbia.
Foreign workers--Labor unions--Organizing--British Columbia.
Foreign workers, Mexican--Civil rights--Canada.
Precarious employment--British Columbia.
Labor History.
Political Science & Political History.
Social Work.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations.
Migrant Workers, Managed Migration, Temporary Migrant Worker Programs, Unionization, Agriculture, Deportability.
HD8108.5.M6 / V67 2020
331.62720711
Disrupting Deportability : Transnational Workers Organize / Leah F. Vosko. - 1 online resource (192 p.) : 2 charts
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Tables and Figures -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Deportability among Temporary Migrant Workers: An Essential Condition of Possibility for Migration Management -- 2. Getting Organized: Countering Termination without Just Cause through Certification -- 3. Maintaining a Bargaining Unit of Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP) Employees: The Challenge of Blacklisting -- 4. Sustaining Bargaining Unit Strength: The Specter of Attrition -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Appendix: Tables -- Bibliography -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
In an original and striking study of migration management in operation, Disrupting Deportability highlights obstacles confronting temporary migrant workers in Canada seeking to exercise their labor rights. Leah F. Vosko explores the effects of deportability on Mexican nationals participating in Canada's Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP).Vosko follows the decade-long legal and political struggle of a group of Mexican SAWP migrants in British Columbia to establish and maintain meaningful collective representation. Her case study reveals how modalities of deportability—such as termination without cause, blacklisting, and attrition—destabilize legally authorized temporary migrant agricultural workers. Through this detailed exposé, Disrupting Deportability concludes that despite the formal commitments to human, social, and civil rights to which migration management ostensibly aspires, the design and administration of this "model" temporary migrant work program produces conditions of deportability, making the threat possibility of removal ever-present.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781501742156
10.1515/9781501742156 doi
Agricultural laborers, Foreign--British Columbia.
Deportation--British Columbia.
Foreign workers--Labor unions--Organizing--British Columbia.
Foreign workers, Mexican--Civil rights--Canada.
Precarious employment--British Columbia.
Labor History.
Political Science & Political History.
Social Work.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations.
Migrant Workers, Managed Migration, Temporary Migrant Worker Programs, Unionization, Agriculture, Deportability.
HD8108.5.M6 / V67 2020
331.62720711