“All of This Happens Here?”: Diminishing Perceptions of Canada through Immigrants’ Precarious Work in Ontario

Hande, Mary Jean; Akram, Ayesha Mian; Condratto, Shelley

doi:10.1007/s12134-019-00683-y

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“…healthcare) may experience difficulty in simultaneously fulfilling work and caring responsibilities due to long working hours and unpredictable shift patterns (Dyer et al , 2011). Furthermore, exposure to precarious work may diminish migrant workers' perceptions of the receiving country (Hande et al , 2020) and heighten the impact of their experiences of social and health inequality (Syed, 2015).…”

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Migrant workers in precarious employment

Zhang¹,

Nardon²,

Sears³

2021

EDI

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PurposeVarious forms of precarious employment create barriers to the integration and inclusion of migrant workers in receiving countries. The purpose of this paper is to review extant research in employment relations and management to identify key factors that contribute to migrant workers' precarious employment and highlight potential avenues for future research.Design/methodology/approachThe authors conducted a narrative literature review drawing on 38 academic journal articles published between 2005 and 2020.FindingsThe authors’ review suggests that macro- and meso-level factors contribute to the precarious employment conditions of migrant workers. However, there is a limited articulation of successful practices and potential solutions to reduce migrant work precarity and exclusion. The literature on migrant workers' precarious employment experience is primarily focused on low-skilled sector (e.g. agriculture, hospitality, domestic care) jobs. In addition, few studies have explored the role of worker characteristics, such as gender, class, ethnicity, race and migration status, in shaping the experience of migrant workers in precarious employment.Practical implicationsThe results of this research highlight the importance of engaging multilevel actors in addressing migrant employment precarity, including policymakers, employers and employment agencies.Originality/valueThis research contributes to a growing conversation of migrant employment precarity by highlighting the heterogeneity of migrant groups and calling for the use of intersectional lenses to understand migrant workers' experiences of precarious employment.

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Migrant workers in precarious employment

Zhang¹,

Nardon²,

Sears³

2021

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“…These factors lead to high rates of unemployment and underemployment among Chinese immigrant women (Man, 2004, p. 143). Hande et al, (2020) reported that a lack of English not only impacted participants' ability to get a job, but it also restricted their ability to stand up for themselves at work, and garner the respect they deserve (p. 719).…”

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“…Over 30% of Canadians are engaged in contingent forms of employment, such as temporary or contract work (Liu, 2019, p. 170). Fulltime employment is increasingly being replaced by precarious work which is characterized by low wages, and no job security, in-work benefits or labour rights and high health risks (Creese & Wiebe, 2012;Dlamini et al, 2012;Hande et al, 2020;Man, 2004, Nichols, 2018Premji & Shakya, 2017;Premji et al, 2014 andShan, 2009).…”

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The Nexus between the Racialized and Gendered Organization of Precarious Employment and the Lived Experiences of Racialized Immigrant Women in Canada: A Review of the Academic Literature

Marlay

2024

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<p>Increasingly, highly educated racialized immigrant women are overrepresented in low-paying, low skill jobs that are situated in toxic work environments plagued by Ontario Employment Standards (ESA) violations and discriminatory employer practices. Various sites of oppression linked to socio-economic exclusion and class dislocation channel this population into racialized gendered professions that deepen their marginalization and increase employment precarity. This Major Research Paper consists of a literature review of peer-reviewed journal articles that specifically examine the lived experiences of racialized immigrant women in the Canadian labour market. Three themes emerged from the data: (1) labour market barriers, (2) social and structural barriers, and (3) labour market experiences. The results indicate that most studies focus on small groups of racialized immigrant women in one region vs. large-scale statistical analyses of various cities across Canada. Such an approach could provide pertinent information to help policy makers develop comprehensive labour market supports geared towards this population.</p>

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“…precarious employment (Hande et al, 2020), and racism (Perry, 2012;Simmons, 2010). These challenges, and the ways in which migrants deal with them, have biographically been found to be closely tied to participation in adult education programs (Bağcı, 2019) and have led to proposals to reimagine immigrant education as a "distributed pedagogy of difference" (Shan, 2015), in which differences are to underpin a strength-based curriculum and serve to advance practice (p. 13).…”

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Doing Migration in Adulthood

Bernhard

2023

CJSAE

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Among the well-documented challenges faced by newcomers to Canada is the possession of Canadian experience (CE) as a prerequisite for successful entry into the labour market. Building on discussions that highlight the exclusionary functions of the CE discourse, this paper employs Dewey’s concept of active and passive experience and applies a doing migration framework in order to study how individuals interact with this discourse. Empirically, this paper draws on narrative interviews conducted with individuals with tertiary education who moved to Canada in adulthood. Using the documentary method, I identified three modes of engagement with CE discourse as replay and readjust, reset and move forward, and research and pro-act. Results illuminate the various forms of engagement, highlighting active, passive, and relational dimensions of doing migration. Concluding, I argue that such relational perspective has implications for adult education and the approaches taken to support individuals as they settle into life in Canada, as well as for theoretical perspectives on learning.

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“All of This Happens Here?”: Diminishing Perceptions of Canada through Immigrants’ Precarious Work in Ontario

Cited by 7 publications

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Migrant workers in precarious employment

Migrant workers in precarious employment

The Nexus between the Racialized and Gendered Organization of Precarious Employment and the Lived Experiences of Racialized Immigrant Women in Canada: A Review of the Academic Literature

Doing Migration in Adulthood

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