9 Pathways to Precarity: Structural Vulnerabilities and Lived Consequences for Migrant Farmworkers in Canada

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures ix
4. List of Tables xi
5. Acknowledgments xiii
6. Contributors xvii
7. 1 The Conditionality of Legal Status and Rights: Conceptualizing Precarious Non-citizenship in Canada 1
8. Part One: Producing Precarious Non-citizenship and Illegality
9. 2 The Museum of Illegal Immigration: Historical Perspectives on the Production of Non-citizens and Challenges to Immigration Controls 31
10. 3 The Shifting Landscape of Contemporary Canadian Immigration Policy: The Rise of Temporary Migration and Employer-Driven Immigration 55
11. 4 The Canadian Temporary Foreign Worker Program: Regulations, Practices, and Protection Gaps 71
12. Part Two: Precarious Status and Everyday Lives
13. 5 “This Is My Life”: Youth Negotiating Legality and Belonging in Toronto 99
14. 6 Constructing Coping Strategies: Migrants Seeking Stability in Social Networks 118
15. 7 The Cost of Invisibility: The Psychosocial Impact of Falling Out of Status 137
16. 8 The Social Production of Non-citizenship: The Consequences of Intersecting Trajectories of Precarious Legal Status and Precarious Work 154
17. 9 Pathways to Precarity: Structural Vulnerabilities and Lived Consequences for Migrant Farmworkers in Canada 175
18. 10 Precarious Immigration Status and Precarious Housing Pathways: Refugee Claimant Homelessness in Toronto and Vancouver 195
19. Part Three: Institutional Negotiations of Status and Rights
20. 11 Negotiating the Boundaries of Membership: Health Care Providers, Access to Social Goods, and Immigration Status 221
21. 12 “People’s Priorities Change When Their Status Changes”: Negotiating the Conditionality of Social Rights in Service Delivery to Migrant Women 238
22. 13 Getting to “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” at the Toronto District School Board: Mapping the Competing Discourses of Rights and Membership 258
23. 14 No One Is Illegal Movements in Canada and the Negotiation of Counter-national and Anti-colonial Struggles from within the Nation-State 274
24. 15 From Access to Empowerment: The Committee for Accessible AIDS Treatment and Its Work with People Living with HIV-AIDS and Precarious Status 291
25. 16 Confidentiality and “Risky” Research: Negotiating Competing Notions of Risk in a Canadian University Context 305
26. Bibliography 317
27. Index 359