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Disrupting Deportability : Transnational Workers Organize
Author
Title
Disrupting Deportability : Transnational Workers Organize / Leah F. Vosko.
ISBN
9781501742156
Publication
Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]
Copyright Notice Date
©2019
Physical Description
1 online resource (192 p.) : 2 charts
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Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
In English.
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Summary
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.
Variant and related titles
De Gruyter University Press eBook pilot project 2019.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 17, 2022
Contents
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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