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Book SynopsisThis 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.
Trade Review'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.' -- Ethel Tungohan 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.' -- Ethel Tungohan Law and Politics Book Review, vol 23:09:2013
Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgements Chapter 1: Precarious Legal Status in Canada: Theorizing Non-citizenship and Conditionality - Luin Goldring (York University) and Patricia Landolt (University of Toronto, Scarborough) Part I. Producing Precarious Status and Illegality in Canada Chapter 2: The Museum of Illegal Immigration: Historical Perspectives on the Production of Non-Citizens and Challenges to Immigration Controls - Cynthia Wright (University of Toronto) Chapter 3: The Shifting Landscape of Contemporary Canadian Immigration Policy: The Rise of Temporary Migration and Employer-Driven Immigration - Salimah Valiani (Ontario Nurses' Association) Chapter 4: The Canadian Temporary Foreign Worker Program: Regulations, Practices and Protection Gaps - Delphine Nakache (University of Ottawa) Part II. Precarious Status and Everyday Lives Chapter 5: 'This is my life:' Youth Negotiating Legality and Belonging in Toronto - Julie E.E. Young (York University) Chapter 6: Constructing Coping Strategies: Migrants Seeking Stability in Social Networks - Katherine Brasch (University of Toronto) Chapter 7: The Cost of Invisibility: The Psychosocial Impact of Falling Out of Status - Samia Saad (York University) Chapter 8: The Social Production of Non-citizenship: Legal Transitions and the Long Term Impacts of Precarious Status on Work - Patricia Landolt (University of Toronto, Scarborough) and Luin Goldring (York University) Chapter 9: Pathways to Precarity: Structural Vulnerabilities and Lived Consequences for Migrant Farmworkers in Canada - Janet McLaughlin (Wilfrid Laurier) and Jenna Hennebry (Wilfrid Laurier) Chapter 10: Precarious Immigration Status and Precarious Housing Pathways: Refugee Claimant Homelessness in Toronto and Vancouver - Priya Kissoon (University of Toronto, Scarborough) Part III. Institutional Negotiations of Membership and Rights Chapter 11: Negotiating the Boundaries of Membership: Healthcare Providers, Access to Social Goods and Immigration Status - Paloma Villegas (Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at University of Toronto) Chapter 12: "People's Priorities Change when their Status Changes:" Negotiating the Conditionality of Social Rights in Service Delivery to Migrant Women - Rupaleem Bhuyan (University of Toronto) Chapter 13: Getting to "Don't Ask Don't Tell" at the Toronto District School Board: Mapping the Competing Discourses of Rights and Membership of Institutional Stakeholders - Francisco Villegas (Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at University of Toronto) Chapter 14: No One Is Illegal Movements in Canada and the Negotiation of Counter-national and Anti-colonial Struggles from Within the Nation-state - Craig Fortier (York University) Chapter 15: From Access to Empowerment: The Committee for Accessible AIDS Treatment Experience Working with People Living with HIV-AIDS with Precarious Status - Alan Li (Ontario HIV Treatment Network) Chapter 16: Institutional Regulation of Research on Families and Legal status: Negotiating Competing Notions of Risk in a Canadian University Context - Julie E.E. Young (York University) and Judith K. Bernhard (Ryerson University)
