Most examinations of non-citizens in Canada focus on immigrants, people who are citizens-in-waiting, or specific categories of temporary, vulnerable workers. In contrast, Producing and Negotiating Non-Citizenship considers a range of people whose pathway to citizenship is uncertain or non-existent. This includes migrant workers, students, refugee claimants, and people with expired permits, all of whom have limited formal rights to employment, housing, education, and health services.

The contributors to this volume present theoretically informed empirical studies of the regulatory, institutional, discursive, and practical terms under which precarious-status non-citizens – those without permanent residence – enter and remain in Canada. They consider the historical and contemporary production of non-citizen precarious status and migrant illegality in Canada, as well as everyday experiences of precarious status among various social groups including youth, denied refugee claimants, and agricultural workers. This timely volume contributes to conceptualizing multiple forms of precarious status non-citizenship as connected through policy and the practices of migrants and the institutional actors they encounter.

Luin Goldring is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at York University.

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Patricia Landolt is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto, Scarborough.

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‘Producing and Negotiating Non-Citizenship widens one’s understanding of precarious status migrants’ lived realities. It should be required reading for academics, researchers, and students doing work on immigration and migration issues.’

The Law and Politics Book Review, vol 23:09:2013

‘This book widens one’s understanding of precarious status of migrants’ lived realities. It should be required reading for academics, researchers, and students doing work on immigration and migration issues.’

Law and Politics Book Review, vol 23:09:2013