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Format: 1 online resource (400 p.) : , 4 figures

ISBN: 9781442663862

Content: Most examinations of non-citizens in Canada focus on immigrants, people who are citizens-in-waiting, or specific categories of temporary, vulnerable workers. In contrast, Producing and Negotiating Non-Citizenship considers a range of people whose pathway to citizenship is uncertain or non-existent. This includes migrant workers, students, refugee claimants, and people with expired permits, all of whom have limited formal rights to employment, housing, education, and health services.The contributors to this volume present theoretically informed empirical studies of the regulatory, institutional, discursive, and practical terms under which precarious-status non-citizens – those without permanent residence – enter and remain in Canada. They consider the historical and contemporary production of non-citizen precarious status and migrant illegality in Canada, as well as everyday experiences of precarious status among various social groups including youth, denied refugee claimants, and agricultural workers. This 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.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , List of Figures -- , List of Tables -- , Acknowledgments -- , Contributors -- , 1 The Conditionality of Legal Status and Rights: Conceptualizing Precarious Non-citizenship in Canada -- , Part One: Producing Precarious Non-citizenship and Illegality -- , 2 The Museum of Illegal Immigration: Historical Perspectives on the Production of Non-citizens and Challenges to Immigration Controls -- , 3 The Shifting Landscape of Contemporary Canadian Immigration Policy: The Rise of Temporary Migration and Employer-Driven Immigration -- , 4 The Canadian Temporary Foreign Worker Program: Regulations, Practices, and Protection Gaps -- , Part Two: Precarious Status and Everyday Lives -- , 5 “This Is My Life”: Youth Negotiating Legality and Belonging in Toronto -- , 6 Constructing Coping Strategies: Migrants Seeking Stability in Social Networks -- , 7 The Cost of Invisibility: The Psychosocial Impact of Falling Out of Status -- , 8 The Social Production of Non-citizenship: The Consequences of Intersecting Trajectories of Precarious Legal Status and Precarious Work -- , 9 Pathways to Precarity: Structural Vulnerabilities and Lived Consequences for Migrant Farmworkers in Canada -- , 10 Precarious Immigration Status and Precarious Housing Pathways: Refugee Claimant Homelessness in Toronto and Vancouver -- , Part Three: Institutional Negotiations of Status and Rights -- , 11 Negotiating the Boundaries of Membership: Health Care Providers, Access to Social Goods, and Immigration Status -- , 12 “People’s Priorities Change When Their Status Changes”: Negotiating the Conditionality of Social Rights in Service Delivery to Migrant Women -- , 13 Getting to “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” at the Toronto District School Board: Mapping the Competing Discourses of Rights and Membership -- , 14 No One Is Illegal Movements in Canada and the Negotiation of Counter-national and Anti-colonial Struggles from within the Nation-State -- , 15 From Access to Empowerment: The Committee for Accessible AIDS Treatment and Its Work with People Living with HIV-AIDS and Precarious Status -- , 16 Confidentiality and “Risky” Research: Negotiating Competing Notions of Risk in a Canadian University Context -- , Bibliography -- , Index , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.3138/9781442663862

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781442663862

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781442663862