Political Science Labor & Industrial Relations
Disrupting Deportability
Transnational Workers Organize
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Initial publish date
- Dec 2019
- Category
- Labor & Industrial Relations, Emigration & Immigration, Post-Confederation (1867-)
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9781501742132
- Publish Date
- Dec 2019
- List Price
- $175.95
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781501742149
- Publish Date
- Dec 2019
- List Price
- $45.95
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Recommended Age, Grade, and Reading Levels
- Age: 18
- Grade: 12
Description
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.
About the author
Leah F. Vosko, Canada Research Chair in Feminist Political Economy, Social Science (Political Science), Atkinson, York University, is the author of "Temporary Work: The Gendered Rise of a Precarious Employment Relationship" and co-editor of "Changing Canada: Political Economy as Transformation."
Awards
- Joint winner, Canadian Association for Work and Labour Studies Book Prize
Editorial Reviews
Vosko's book is highly informative and innovative. It provides new directions for the analysis and actions to defend migrant workers' rights in Canada.
Labour/La Travail
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