ISBN:
1-938645-03-0
,
978-1-938645-03-7
Language:
English
Pages:
XXXII, 274 S.
,
Ill., graph. Darst.
Edition:
First edition
Series Statement:
School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar Series [108]
Keywords:
USA Kanada
;
Regierung
;
Migration
;
Arbeit
;
Arbeitsmigration
Abstract:
Today managed migration is growing in North America. This mirrors the general growth of migration from poorer to richer countries, with more than 200 million people now living outside their natal countries. Faced with this phenomenon, managed migration enables nation-states to regulate those population movements; direct foreign nationals to specific, identified economic sectors that citizens are less likely to care about; match employers who claim labor shortages with highly motivated workers; and offer people from poorer countries higher earning potential abroad through temporary absence from their families and homelands. Characterized like this, managed migration sounds like the ideal alternative to unregulated, undocumented migration. Unfortunately, as the contributors to this volume describe, managed migration does not always work on the ground as well as it does on paper. (Umschlagtext)
Description / Table of Contents:
List of figures and tables -- Managing and Mismanaging Migration: an introduction, David Griffith -- Part 1: Critical moments in guestworker programm history -- 1. "Risk the Truck": Guestworker-Sending States and the Myth of Managed Migration, Cindy Hahamovitch -- 2. The H-2A Program: Evolution, Impacts, and Outlook, Philip Martin -- 3. Temporary Foreign Workers in Canada: Flexible Labor in the Twenty-First Century, Josephine Smart -- Part 2: Fluctuations in guestworker programs in the twenty-first century -- 4. Managed Migration and Changing Workplace Regimes in Canadian Agriculture, Kerry Preibisch -- 5. Guestworkers in the Fabrication and Shipbuilding Industry along the Gulf of Mexico: An Anomaly or a New Source of Labor?, Diane Austin -- Part 3: Guest and host families and communities -- 6. From Perfect to Imperfect Immigrants: Family Relations and the Managed Migration of Seafood Workers between Sinaloa, Mexico, and North Carolina, David Griffith and Ricardo Contreras -- 7. The Potential and Pitfalls of Social Remittances: Guatemalan Women and Labor Migration to Canada, Christine Hughes -- 8. Global Trends, Local Outcomes: Globalization and the Foreign-Born Temporary Labor Force in the Shenandoah Valley Apple Industry, Micah N. Bump, Elzbieta M. Gozdziak, and B. Lindsay Lowell -- 9. A History of Activism: The Organizational Work of Juvencio Rocha Peralta, Juvencio Rocha Peralta, David Griffith, and Ricardo Contreras -- 10. Conclusion: Promises of Guestworker Programs, David Griffith -- Appendix: Chronologies and selected characteristics of North American guestworker programs, David Griffith, Melanie Hamilton, Josephine Smart, and Pablo Valdes Villareal -- References -- Index
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 237-262"School for Advanced Research short seminar Managing and Mismanaging Migration: Lessons from Guestworkers' Experiences, co-chaired by Diane Austin and David Griffith, August 4-5, 2010" (letzte Seite)Enthält eine Einführung und 11 Beiträge
