Liberating temporariness? : migration, work, and citizenship in an age of insecurity / edited by Leah F. Vosko, Valerie Preston, and Robert Latham.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vosko, Leah F., Author.

Contributor:

Vosko, Leah F., editor.

Preston-Dunlop, Valerie, editor.

Latham, Robert, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Foreign workers, Canadian.

Foreign workers, Canadian--Social conditions.

Foreign workers.

Foreign workers--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (401 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montréal, Québec : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""LIBERATING TEMPORARINESS?""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction: Liberating Temporariness? Imagining Alternatives to Permanence as a Pathway for Social Inclusion""; ""PART ONE SECURITY, TEMPORARY STATUS, AND RIGHTS""; ""1 Rethinking Canadian Citizenship: The Politics of Social Exclusion in the Age of Security and Suppression""; ""2 Permanent Patriots and Temporary Predators? Post-9/11 Institutionalization of the Arab/Orientalized “Other� in the United States and the Contributions of Arendt and Said""

""3 Indefinitely Pending: Security Certificates and Permanent Temporariness""""PART TWO INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND TRANSNATIONAL DYNAMICS OF TEMPORARY WORK""; ""4 Managed Migration and the Temporary Labour Fix""; ""5 Institutionalizing Temporary Labour Migration in Europe: Creating an “In-between�� Migration Status""; ""6 The Permanence of Temporary Labour Mobility: Migrant Worker Programs across Australia, Canada, and New Zealand""; ""PART THREE TEMPORARY STATUS, SOCIAL WELFARE, AND MARGINALIZATION""

""7 Brain Circulation or Precarious Labour? Conceptualizing Temporariness in the United Kingdom�s National Health Service""""8 Language Training and Labour Market Integration for Newcomers to Canada""; ""9 Resituating Temporariness as the Precarity and Conditionality of Non-citizenship""; ""10 Constructing and “Liberating� Temporariness in the Canadian Non-profit Sector: Neoliberalism and Non-profit Service Providers""; ""PART FOUR (RE) FRAMING TEMPORARINESS""; ""11 Mexican Migrant Transnationalism and Imaginaries of Temporary/Permanent Belonging""

""12 Temporariness: Other than Permanence, and in the Lives of People � Always �""""13 Temporal Orders, Re-collective Justice, and the Making of Untimely States""; ""Contributors""; ""Index""

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed July 9, 2014).

ISBN:

9780773592230

0773592237

9780773592223

0773592229

OCLC:

872944549