Migrant Workers and the Right to Family Accompaniment: A Case for Family Rights in International Law and in Canada

Nakache, Delphine

doi:10.1111/imig.12444

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“…Here, poor and exploitative working conditions coalesce with challenging work relationships, communication barriers, loneliness, and separation from significant relations and supports. Amongst these features of migrant life, the fear of deportation and repatriation—an outcome of state policy, is often the most destabilizing, as it taps into, not only insecurities and inequalities that exist in the site of employment, but those endemic in the sending-state and affecting of non-migrant kin ( Walia, 2010 ; Perry, 2012 ; Nakache, 2018 ; Perry 2018 ). Different from the literature on permanently resettled migrants, this scholarship focuses considerably on the effects of immigration policy in Canada ( Oxman-Martinez et al, 2005 ) and emigration policy in the Philippines.…”

Section: Migrant Wellbeingmentioning

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Contingent Relations: Migrant Wellbeing and Economic Development in Rural Manitoba

Bryan

2021

Front. Sociol.

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Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in rural Manitoba and the Philippines, this paper uses the example of the small town of Douglas, which since 2009 has been home to a small Filipino community, as a tenuous counter-point to the accounts of exclusion that dominate the scholarship on Temporary Foreign Labour in Canada. This paper draws on ethnographic research conducted in Manitoba with the region’s newest immigrants—those recruited to ensure the viability of the new, diversified rural regional economy, and more specifically, the tourism and hospitality sector, established in the 1970s. In 2009, unable to meet its labour needs regionally, a local hotel began recruiting temporary foreign labour. By 2014, the Hotel had recruited 71 workers from the Philippines, most of whom arrived through Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program; others having arrived through the province’s immigration scheme, the Manitoba Provincial Nominee Program (MPNP). A reflection of the ubiquity of globalized Filipino migration, the well-being of these workers had long been informed by economic development in the Philippines and the centrality of international labour mobility to that state project. What emerges from the data is a simultaneous acceptance and contestation of the conditions of transnational family life, and moreover—reflecting the focus of this special issue—the extent to which migrant well-being shifts in accordance to labour mobility regimes responsive to development. Migrant workers and their families are implicated in these connected, yet differently motivated, state projects. And while particular narratives concerning their contributions come to be valorized and even celebrated, their mental, physical, affective, and relational well-being is often over-looked by those who benefit from their labour and mobility. Of equal importance is the provincial state’s participation in this process through the provision of permanent residency to existing and in-coming migrants. While this benefits individual families, it does not inherently challenge the logics of neoliberalism; rather, drawing on its nuances, it create new possibilities for capital accumulation and exploitation, while offering some protection for select families who are willing and able to abide by the terms established by their employer and the Manitoba state.

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Section: Migrant Wellbeingmentioning

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Contingent Relations: Migrant Wellbeing and Economic Development in Rural Manitoba

Bryan

2021

Front. Sociol.

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“…In a study based on Hong Kong, Constable () reported a case where statelessness was hidden within urban, rich, elite families comprising middle‐ or even upper‐class persons (2018, p. 176). These papers indicate that statelessness can exist in the center of any industrialized, liberal democratic state, including the United States (Gonzales & Chavez, ), Canada (Meloni, Rousseau, Montgomery, & Measham, , p. 307; Nakache, ), and European countries (Eliassi, ; Stokes‐Dupass, ).…”

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Transnational regimes of labor and statelessness: Intersections of citizenship regimes and local norms in East and Southeast Asia

Ishii

2020

Sociology Compass

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This article offers a review of the literature on transnational labor regimes and statelessness to pursue further theorization from East and Southeast Asian contexts. The main focus is on how local norms (local sense of belonging, local moral code, and local hierarchies) are entangled with national-level citizenship regimes to legitimate the discrimination of certain people to be statelessness and secure lowwage migrant workers for the new global labor regime. First, traditional literature on citizenship and statelessness was reviewed; binary theoretical frameworks (including citizens/ excluding non-citizens) based on political recognition were indicated as the main limitations. Second, recent theories arguing for an intersection between national citizenship regimes and a new global labor regime were reviewed. Third, recent theories that illuminate the importance of local contexts in determining citizens' rights were reviewed based on formal exclusion and informal inclusion as well as formal inclusion and informal exclusion. Finally, it was concluded that further theorization is needed on how citizenship regimes and local norms intersect to produce statelessness, securing low-wage migrant workers for the global labor regime through the global assemblages approach. Through

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“…Ikatan hubungan yang baik (raport) harus diupayakan sebelum jauh melangkah pada substansi pendampingan. (Jerez Yàñez, Aranda Càceres, Corvalán Canessa, González Rojas, & Ramos Torres, 2019)(Le Galès & Bungener, 2019) (Nakache, 2019).…”

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Pendampingan Upaya Perbaikan Gizi pada Balita (Studi Kasus di Posyandu Sedap Malam, Dusun Sumbertimo, Desa Arjosari, Kalipare, Malang)

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Migrant Workers and the Right to Family Accompaniment: A Case for Family Rights in International Law and in Canada

Cited by 25 publications

References 22 publications

Contingent Relations: Migrant Wellbeing and Economic Development in Rural Manitoba

Contingent Relations: Migrant Wellbeing and Economic Development in Rural Manitoba

Transnational regimes of labor and statelessness: Intersections of citizenship regimes and local norms in East and Southeast Asia

Pendampingan Upaya Perbaikan Gizi pada Balita (Studi Kasus di Posyandu Sedap Malam, Dusun Sumbertimo, Desa Arjosari, Kalipare, Malang)

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