Awards

• Joint winner of Canadian Association for Work and Labour Studies Book Prize 2020 (United States)

Overview

In an original and striking study of migration management in operation, Disrupting Deportability highlights obstacles confronting temporary migrant workers in Canada seeking to exercise their labor rights. Leah F. Vosko explores the effects of deportability on Mexican nationals participating in Canada's Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP). Vosko follows the decade-long legal and political struggle of a group of Mexican SAWP migrants in British Columbia to establish and maintain meaningful collective representation. Her case study reveals how modalities of deportability-such as termination without cause, blacklisting, and attrition-destabilize legally authorized temporary migrant agricultural workers. Through this detailed expose, Disrupting Deportability concludes that despite the formal commitments to human, social, and civil rights to which migration management ostensibly aspires, the design and administration of this ""model"" temporary migrant work program produces conditions of deportability, making the threat possibility of removal ever-present.

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9781501742132

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Reviews

Vosko's book is highly informative and innovative. It provides new directions for the analysis and actions to defend migrant workers' rights in Canada. * Labour/La Travail *

How do temporary migrant worker programs utilize the threat of deportation to generate flexibility? To what extent can these programs be resisted and transformed? In pursuing these vital questions, this impressive book will change the way we think about temporary migration and deportation. -- William Walters, Carleton University, author of<I> The Production of Secrecy</I> Disrupting Deportability is a must read for anyone interested in migrant labor, politics, and the state. -- Shannon Gleeson, Cornell University, author of <I>Precarious Claims</I> Disrupting Deportability is prescient and innovative. This high-quality work is full of outstanding qualitative research in the sociology of labor and will appeal to readers in and beyond the disciplines of sociology and labor studies. -- Immanuel Ness, City University of New York, author of <I>Southern Insurgency</I>

Vosko's book is highly informative and innovative... it provides new directions for the analysis and actions to defend migrant workers' rights in Canada. * LABOUR/ LE TRAVAIL *

Author Information

Leah F. Vosko is Professor of Political Science and Canada Research Chair in the Political Economy of Gender and Work at York University in Toronto. She is author of Managing the Margins and Temporary Work.

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