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Political Science Labor & Industrial Relations

Liberating Temporariness?

Migration, Work, and Citizenship in an Age of Insecurity

edited by Leah F. Vosko, Valerie Preston & Robert Latham

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Initial publish date
Jun 2014
Category
Labor & Industrial Relations
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    9780773592230
    Publish Date
    Jun 2014
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    $34.95
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    ISBN
    9780773543829
    Publish Date
    Jul 2014
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    $40.95
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    ISBN
    9780773543812
    Publish Date
    Jul 2014
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Liberating Temporariness? explores the complex ways in which temporariness is being institutionalized as a condition of life for a growing number of people worldwide. The collection emphasizes contemporary developments, but also provides historical context on nation-state membership as the fundamental means for accessing rights in an era of expanding temporariness - in recognition of why pathways to permanence remain so compelling.

Through empirical and theoretical analysis, contributors explore various dimensions of temporariness, especially as it relates to the legal status of migrants and refugees, to the spread of precarious employment, and to limitations on social rights. While the focus is on Canada, a number of chapters investigate and contrast developments in Canada with those in Europe as well as Australia and the United States. Together, these essays reveal changing and enduring temporariness at local, regional, national, transnational, and global levels, and in different domains, such as health care, language programs, and security.

The question at the heart of this collection is whether temporariness can be liberated from current constraints. While not denying the desirability of permanence for migrants and labourers, Liberating Temporariness? presents alternative possibilities of security and liberation.

About the authors

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."

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Valerie Preston is professor of geography at York University and a former York Director for CERIS - The Ontario Metropolis Centre.

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Robert Latham teaches in the Politics Department at York University in Toronto.

 

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