Description
Book SynopsisIn 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 deportabilitysuch as termination without cause, blacklisting, and attritiondestabilize 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
Trade Review
Vosko's book is highly informative and innovative. It provides new directions for the analysis and actions to defend migrant workers' rights in Canada.
* Labour/La Travail *
Table of ContentsIntroduction
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
