NO105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Sean Penn, North American Free Trade Agreement
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Gabriel and macdonald claim that citizenship rights can be divided into 3 categories. Yet the workers who come here are regularly denied some substantive. Been in place in canada for over 40 years. Ontario and bc get people through this program to come to them to work on their farms. Tend to be married men chosen during the selection process: will always have to go back to their families. These workers are denied the basic social rights. Social service agencies come into play (churches, unions, non government groups) to help them get their rights. The temporary foreign workers are flexible, disciplined, unfree and reliable . It has fallen to non-state local actors to advocate and intervene on behalf of the workers to ensure rights since they are vulnerable to workplace abuses. According to otero, nafta has been bad for mexico b/c it has caused the loss of both food self sufficiency and (thereby) labour sovereignty.
