SOCB47H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Nandita Swetha, Work Permit, Arab Spring
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Some employment segment: production, and living conditions, along linguistic and cultural lines. Workplaces that recruit men and women: segment sexes by country (e. g. mexican women, caribbean men) Leads to a divisive workforce in which employees compete with one another to hold on to jobs. Upward mobility because of lack of access. Work permit valid with single employer (labor mobility: employers can repatriate workers (deport) if they complain, are sick or injured, pregnant. Quick process lessens workers ability to fight firing and deportation. Confusion over jurisdiction (labor laws are provincial, immigration is federal) At the farm, geographic mobility: some farms prohibit visitors of the opposite sex and establish curfews (workers may also help to enforce these practices) Bernard et al. define precarious work as individuals in a range of categories who may experience shifts between different types of legal status over the duration of their presence in canada . Precarious status underscores the potential multi-dimensionality of insecurity (e. g. work, residence, rights).
