Disrupting Deportability

Transnational Workers Organize

Leah F. Vosko

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ILR Press
15 December 2019

History of the Americas; Migration, immigration & emigration; Trade unions

"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 expose, 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."

By: Leah F. Vosko
Imprint: ILR Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9781501742149
ISBN 10: 1501742140
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 15 December 2019
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

Leah F. Vosko is Professor of Political Science and Canada Research Chair in the Political Economy of Gender and Work at York University in Toronto. She is author of Managing the Margins and Temporary Work.

Reviews for Disrupting Deportability: Transnational Workers Organize

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 *