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Transient servitude: migrant labour in Canada and the apartheid of citizenship

Walia, Harsha·2010·Race & Class
DOI 10.1177/0306396810371766
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Shifts in Canada’s immigration policy, most recently linked to the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) with the US and Mexico, have created an increased reliance on temporary migrant workers, who constitute a disposable workforce, driven from their own countries by the same forces of neoliberal capitalism which foster their super-exploitation in the Canadian labour market. In this article, the operation of two migrant worker programmes, the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program (SAWP) and Live-in Caregiver Program (LCP), are considered in the context of the province of British Columbia. The various means by which migrant workers are maintained in a state of vulnerability, available as a pool of cheap labour but excluded from belonging to the nation, are discussed. The article concludes by examining examples and further possibilities of alliances across social movements in BC in order to advance the struggle for human dignity.

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Authors
Walia, H.
Corresponding author
Walia, Harsha
Venue
Race & Class
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Published
2010-07
Volume
52
Issue
1
Pages
71-84
ISSN
  • 0306-3968 (ISSN-L)
  • 1741-3125
DOI
10.1177/0306396810371766
OpenAlex
W1975634921
Cited by
146
References
12
Citations by year
2026: 3 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 7 · 2023: 8 · 2022: 9 · 2021: 30 · 2020: 11 · 2019: 6 · 2018: 9 · 2017: 9 · 2016: 10 · 2015: 12 · 2014: 14 · 2013: 7 · 2012: 4
FWCI
13.51
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
Locations
Race & Class (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Migration and Labor Dynamics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Migration, Refugees, and Integration
  • Social Sciences › Law › Labor Law and Work Dynamics
Keywords
migrant labour, temporary foreign workers, Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program, Live-in Caregiver Program, immigration policy, labor exploitation, citizenship, sense of belonging, social movements, human dignity, British Columbia, neoliberalism, agricultural labor, care work

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