Immigrant Workers: Labour Migration

immigrant workers: Utilizing the rhetoric of maintaining competitiveness, Canadian employers and the state have ushered in an era of neoliberal migration alongside an agenda of austerity flowing from capitalist crisis, according to Rabble. Labour markets have been restructured to render labour more flexible and precarious, and in Canada as in other high-income capitalist labour markets, employers are relying on migrant and immigrant workers as unfree labour. Moreover, temporary labour migration has replaced permanent immigration as the primary means by which people enter Canada. This book explores labour migration to Canada and how public policies of temporary and guest worker programs function in the global context of work and capitalist restructuring. The collection also examines how migrant and immigrant workers have organized for justice and dignity in Canada. Contributors are directly engaged with the issues emerging from the influx of temporary foreign workers and Canada creeping economic apartheid —the ongoing racialization of economic inequality for many workers of colour. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.