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Caught in the Work–Citizenship Matrix: the Lasting Effects of Precarious Legal Status on Work for Toronto Immigrants
Luin Goldring,Patricia Landolt +1 more
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In this article, the authors explore the relationship between precarious employment and precarious migrant legal status, and introduce a work-citizenship matrix to capture the ways in which the precariousness of legal status and work intersect in the new economy.Abstract:
This article explores the relationship between precarious employment and precarious migrant legal status. Original research on immigrant workers' employment experiences in Toronto examines the effects of several measures including human capital, network, labor market variables, and a change in legal status variable on job precarity as measured by an eight-indicator Index of Precarious Work (IPW). Precarious legal status has a long-lasting, negative effect on job precarity; both respondents who entered and remained in a precarious migratory status and those who shifted to secure status were more likely to remain in precarious work compared to respondents who entered with and remained in a secure status. This leaves no doubt that migrant-worker insecurity and vulnerability stem not only from having ‘irregular’ status. We introduce the notion of a work–citizenship matrix to capture the ways in which the precariousness of legal status and work intersect in the new economy. People and entire groups transition ...read more
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The Age of Migration
Stephen Castles,Mark J. Miller +1 more
TL;DR: The third edition of the 3rd edition of as mentioned in this paper is the most comprehensive survey of international migration in the post-Cold-War era of globalization, focusing on the formation of ethnic minorities.
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Precarious Work, Insecure Workers: Employment Relations in Transition
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Migrant “Illegality” and Deportability in Everyday Life
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Birds of Passage: Migrant Labor and Industrial Societies
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Liminal legality: Salvadoran and Guatemalan immigrants' lives in the United States
TL;DR: The authors examines the effects of uncertain legal status on the lives of immigrants, situating their experiences within frameworks of citizenship/belonging and segmented assimilation, and using Victor Turner's concept of liminality and Susan Coutin's "legal nonexistence."