LABR 2P86 Lecture 8: LABR2P86 - Lecture Eight - Migrant Workers

• School: Brock University
• Department: Labour Studies
• Course: LABR 2P86
• Professor: Laura Harris

Document Summary

Live-in caregivers are individuals who are qualified to provide care for children, elderly persons or persons with disabilities in private homes without supervision. Until late 2014, caregivers needed to live in the private home where they work in canada. Both employer and employee must follow several steps to meet the requirements of the. A program that is both highly gendered and highly radicalized (almost exclusively) A form of transnational work, and more specifically, transnational mothering . Women, as primary caregivers, leave their won families (in some cases) to care for the families of others. Status/immigration inherently tied to the program (must maintain hiring to remain in the country you work in) Currently over 35,000 women workers in this program. The live-in requirement of the live-in caregiver program was always key. Labr-2p86: it was mandated that one lives in the home of the family for a period of two years for pr eligibility.