Disrupting Deportability : Transnational Workers Organize / Leah F. Vosko.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vosko, Leah F., Author.

Series:

Cornell scholarship online.

Cornell scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Foreign workers, Mexican--Civil rights--Canada.

Foreign workers, Mexican.

Agricultural laborers, Foreign--British Columbia.

Agricultural laborers, Foreign.

Foreign workers--Labor unions--Organizing--British Columbia.

Foreign workers.

Deportation--British Columbia.

Deportation.

Precarious employment--British Columbia.

Precarious employment.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (192 pages)

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

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.

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

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2019.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9781501742163

1501742167

9781501742156

1501742159

OCLC:

1134668559