Christina Gabriel
Biographic Data
| ID | 3672990 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christina Gabriel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christina |
| FAMILY NAME | Gabriel |
| SIGNATURE | GABRIEL C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Carleton University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1308-8334 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 53 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Ambivalent Mobilities? Social Resilience and the Experiences of International Students in Canada
Canada has turned to recruiting growing numbers of international students as part of its broader neoliberal “managed migration” strategy designed to realize economic goals. Canadian universities have come to the fore as key players in the active recruitment of students from abroad. In this paper we draw on the analytic concept of “social resilience” to examine the role of universities in developing structures and mechanisms that promote and/or hi…
Cosmopolitan Paradox? The Labour Market Experiences of Newcomer Skilled Workers
Canada's national narratives gesture to cosmopolitan ideals by celebrating the country as open and inclusive through the working of its immigration policy. Indeed, it has been suggested that Canada may be oriented toward a form of 'rooted cosmopolitanism'. This vision stands at odds with the experiences of skilled migrants who often encounter hurdles in the labour market. In this paper, we probe the 'cosmopolitan paradox' and its implications. Th…
New architectures for migration governance: Nafta and transnational activism around migrants’ rights
This article analyses the way in which free trade agreements may become a new form of migration governance architecture, through an examination of the case of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). We argue that the inclusion of migrant worker rights among the labour rights covered by the labour side accord unexpectedly resulted in new forms of migrant rights advocacy and transnational cooperation to promote migrant worker rights, espec…
Contesting Gender Discrimination in the Canadian Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program
Temporary agricultural workers have come to Canada from Mexico under the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program (SAWP) since 1974. In Canada, temporary migration programs, including the SAWP, are heavily gender segregated and racialized. In this paper we examine the ways in which unions, civil society organizations and workers themselves have engaged at multiple sites and scales to contest SAWP recruitment practices that discriminate on the basis …
After the International Organization for Migration: Recruitment of Guatemalan temporary agricultural workers to Canada
The global agricultural industry is increasingly supported by transnational migrant labour. The experience of this precarious workforce in receiving states has been the focus of intensified scrutiny by policy-makers and academics at the global and national scale. Drawing on field research we examine how the International Organization for Migration was involved in the development of a transnational labour migration corridor from Guatemala to Canad…
A Different Road? Canadian Immigration Policy in the 1960s
Research Article| September 01 2015 A Different Road? Canadian Immigration Policy in the 1960s Christina Gabriel Christina Gabriel Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2015) 12 (3): 29–33. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-2920352 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Christina Gabriel; A Different Road? Canadian Immigration Policy in the 1960s. Labor 1 Septem…
Multiculturalism with in a bilingual framework: Language, race, and belonging in Canada
Managed Migration and the Temporary Labour Fix
Domestic transnationalism: Legal advocacy for Mexican migrant workers' rights in Canada
Every year thousands of Mexicans travel to Canada to work in Canadian fields and greenhouses under the Mexico-Canada Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program. While the programme is often praised, it has also been the subject of persistent criticism about its failure to meet certain human rights standards. In this article, we examine the legal strategies civil society advocates of migrant workers have adopted to promote migrant workers' rights in Can…
Nafta, Skilled Migration, and Continental Nursing Markets
High‐skilled labour migration figures prominently in global policy narratives. Increasingly, countries in the global north have introduced policies to attract and facilitate the entry of skilled migrants. More recently, the high‐skilled migrant is cast as an ‘agent of development’ within policy discourse and practice. This paper challenges this rhetoric by interrogating the ways in which the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is implicat…
Governing International Labour Migration: Current Issues, Challenges and Dilemmas
This book offers a critical examination of the way in which the nature and governance of international labour migration is changing within a globalizing environment. It examines how labour mobility and the governance of labour migration are changing by exploring the links between political economy and differentiated forms of labour migration. Additionally, it considers the effects of new social models of inclusion and exclusion on labour migratio…
Citizenship at the Margins: The Canadian Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program and Civil Society Advocacy
This article evaluates the role civil society organizations play in helping noncitizen migrant workers access to social rights in Canada. The study focuses on the bilateral Canadian Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program, a temporary worker scheme that brings Mexicans to Canada to work as harvesters for a four‐to‐eight‐month period. Despite the common description of this program as “best practice,” questions are raised about the ability of workers…
Brian Keeley, International Migration: The Human Face of Globalisation
Globalising Care Economies and Migrant Workers: Explorations in Global Care Chains
Training the Excluded for Work: Access and Equity for Women, Immigrants, First Nations, Youth, and People with Low Income
Training the Excluded for Work: Access and Equity for Women, Immigrants, First Nations, Youth, and People with Low Income , Marjorie Griffin Cohen, ed., Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2003, pp. 276. Training the Excluded for Work is an important contribution to debates about the importance and viability of job training policies and programmes that are directed to those who are “excluded” in the Canadian labour market. It is also…
Of Borders and Business: Canadian Corporate Proposals for North American “Deep Integration”
One of the most important outcomes of 11 September 2001 is the new visibility of national borders and a renewed emphasis on border security. Various business leaders, think tanks, and government representatives in Canada have responded to US demands for greater border security by calling for the elimination or reinvention of the Canada-US border. Some of the more important business groups involved are the Canadian Council of Chief Executives (CCC…
The Hypermobile, The Mobile, And The Rest: Patterns of Inclusion and Exclusion in An Emerging North American Migration Regime
While the North American Free Trade Area (NAFTA), in contrast with the European Union, contains only limited provisions on labour mobility, an informal labour mobility regime is emerging in North America. This article evaluates ways in which NAFTA entrenches patterns of inequality within the North American region by rendering some groups of people more mobile than others. In particular, we focus on the unequal treatment of workers treated as "hig…
Nafta, Women and Organising in Canada and Mexico: Forging a 'Feminist Internationality
Nafta, Women and Organising in Canada and Mexico: Forging a 'Feminist Internationality
After the International Organization for Migration: Recruitment of Guatemalan temporary agricultural workers to Canada
The global agricultural industry is increasingly supported by transnational migrant labour. The experience of this precarious workforce in receiving states has been the focus of intensified scrutiny by policy-makers and academics at the global and national scale. Drawing on field research we examine how the International Organization for Migration was involved in the development of a transnational labour migration corridor from Guatemala to Canad…
Citizenship at the Margins: The Canadian Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program and Civil Society Advocacy
This article evaluates the role civil society organizations play in helping noncitizen migrant workers access to social rights in Canada. The study focuses on the bilateral Canadian Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program, a temporary worker scheme that brings Mexicans to Canada to work as harvesters for a four‐to‐eight‐month period. Despite the common description of this program as “best practice,” questions are raised about the ability of workers…
Globalising Care Economies and Migrant Workers: Explorations in Global Care Chains
The Hypermobile, The Mobile, And The Rest: Patterns of Inclusion and Exclusion in An Emerging North American Migration Regime
While the North American Free Trade Area (NAFTA), in contrast with the European Union, contains only limited provisions on labour mobility, an informal labour mobility regime is emerging in North America. This article evaluates ways in which NAFTA entrenches patterns of inequality within the North American region by rendering some groups of people more mobile than others. In particular, we focus on the unequal treatment of workers treated as "hig…
Nafta, Skilled Migration, and Continental Nursing Markets
High‐skilled labour migration figures prominently in global policy narratives. Increasingly, countries in the global north have introduced policies to attract and facilitate the entry of skilled migrants. More recently, the high‐skilled migrant is cast as an ‘agent of development’ within policy discourse and practice. This paper challenges this rhetoric by interrogating the ways in which the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is implicat…
Domestic transnationalism: Legal advocacy for Mexican migrant workers' rights in Canada
Every year thousands of Mexicans travel to Canada to work in Canadian fields and greenhouses under the Mexico-Canada Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program. While the programme is often praised, it has also been the subject of persistent criticism about its failure to meet certain human rights standards. In this article, we examine the legal strategies civil society advocates of migrant workers have adopted to promote migrant workers' rights in Can…
New architectures for migration governance: Nafta and transnational activism around migrants’ rights
This article analyses the way in which free trade agreements may become a new form of migration governance architecture, through an examination of the case of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). We argue that the inclusion of migrant worker rights among the labour rights covered by the labour side accord unexpectedly resulted in new forms of migrant rights advocacy and transnational cooperation to promote migrant worker rights, espec…
Cosmopolitan Paradox? The Labour Market Experiences of Newcomer Skilled Workers
Canada's national narratives gesture to cosmopolitan ideals by celebrating the country as open and inclusive through the working of its immigration policy. Indeed, it has been suggested that Canada may be oriented toward a form of 'rooted cosmopolitanism'. This vision stands at odds with the experiences of skilled migrants who often encounter hurdles in the labour market. In this paper, we probe the 'cosmopolitan paradox' and its implications. Th…
Nafta, Women and Organising in Canada and Mexico: Forging a 'Feminist Internationality
Of Borders and Business: Canadian Corporate Proposals for North American “Deep Integration”
One of the most important outcomes of 11 September 2001 is the new visibility of national borders and a renewed emphasis on border security. Various business leaders, think tanks, and government representatives in Canada have responded to US demands for greater border security by calling for the elimination or reinvention of the Canada-US border. Some of the more important business groups involved are the Canadian Council of Chief Executives (CCC…
The Hypermobile, The Mobile, And The Rest: Patterns of Inclusion and Exclusion in An Emerging North American Migration Regime
While the North American Free Trade Area (NAFTA), in contrast with the European Union, contains only limited provisions on labour mobility, an informal labour mobility regime is emerging in North America. This article evaluates ways in which NAFTA entrenches patterns of inequality within the North American region by rendering some groups of people more mobile than others. In particular, we focus on the unequal treatment of workers treated as "hig…
Training the Excluded for Work: Access and Equity for Women, Immigrants, First Nations, Youth, and People with Low Income
Training the Excluded for Work: Access and Equity for Women, Immigrants, First Nations, Youth, and People with Low Income , Marjorie Griffin Cohen, ed., Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2003, pp. 276. Training the Excluded for Work is an important contribution to debates about the importance and viability of job training policies and programmes that are directed to those who are “excluded” in the Canadian labour market. It is also…
Globalising Care Economies and Migrant Workers: Explorations in Global Care Chains
Citizenship at the Margins: The Canadian Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program and Civil Society Advocacy
This article evaluates the role civil society organizations play in helping noncitizen migrant workers access to social rights in Canada. The study focuses on the bilateral Canadian Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program, a temporary worker scheme that brings Mexicans to Canada to work as harvesters for a four‐to‐eight‐month period. Despite the common description of this program as “best practice,” questions are raised about the ability of workers…
Brian Keeley, International Migration: The Human Face of Globalisation
Governing International Labour Migration: Current Issues, Challenges and Dilemmas
This book offers a critical examination of the way in which the nature and governance of international labour migration is changing within a globalizing environment. It examines how labour mobility and the governance of labour migration are changing by exploring the links between political economy and differentiated forms of labour migration. Additionally, it considers the effects of new social models of inclusion and exclusion on labour migratio…
Nafta, Skilled Migration, and Continental Nursing Markets
High‐skilled labour migration figures prominently in global policy narratives. Increasingly, countries in the global north have introduced policies to attract and facilitate the entry of skilled migrants. More recently, the high‐skilled migrant is cast as an ‘agent of development’ within policy discourse and practice. This paper challenges this rhetoric by interrogating the ways in which the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is implicat…
Managed Migration and the Temporary Labour Fix
Domestic transnationalism: Legal advocacy for Mexican migrant workers' rights in Canada
Every year thousands of Mexicans travel to Canada to work in Canadian fields and greenhouses under the Mexico-Canada Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program. While the programme is often praised, it has also been the subject of persistent criticism about its failure to meet certain human rights standards. In this article, we examine the legal strategies civil society advocates of migrant workers have adopted to promote migrant workers' rights in Can…
A Different Road? Canadian Immigration Policy in the 1960s
Research Article| September 01 2015 A Different Road? Canadian Immigration Policy in the 1960s Christina Gabriel Christina Gabriel Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2015) 12 (3): 29–33. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-2920352 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Christina Gabriel; A Different Road? Canadian Immigration Policy in the 1960s. Labor 1 Septem…
Multiculturalism with in a bilingual framework: Language, race, and belonging in Canada
After the International Organization for Migration: Recruitment of Guatemalan temporary agricultural workers to Canada
The global agricultural industry is increasingly supported by transnational migrant labour. The experience of this precarious workforce in receiving states has been the focus of intensified scrutiny by policy-makers and academics at the global and national scale. Drawing on field research we examine how the International Organization for Migration was involved in the development of a transnational labour migration corridor from Guatemala to Canad…
Contesting Gender Discrimination in the Canadian Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program
Temporary agricultural workers have come to Canada from Mexico under the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program (SAWP) since 1974. In Canada, temporary migration programs, including the SAWP, are heavily gender segregated and racialized. In this paper we examine the ways in which unions, civil society organizations and workers themselves have engaged at multiple sites and scales to contest SAWP recruitment practices that discriminate on the basis …
New architectures for migration governance: Nafta and transnational activism around migrants’ rights
This article analyses the way in which free trade agreements may become a new form of migration governance architecture, through an examination of the case of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). We argue that the inclusion of migrant worker rights among the labour rights covered by the labour side accord unexpectedly resulted in new forms of migrant rights advocacy and transnational cooperation to promote migrant worker rights, espec…
Cosmopolitan Paradox? The Labour Market Experiences of Newcomer Skilled Workers
Canada's national narratives gesture to cosmopolitan ideals by celebrating the country as open and inclusive through the working of its immigration policy. Indeed, it has been suggested that Canada may be oriented toward a form of 'rooted cosmopolitanism'. This vision stands at odds with the experiences of skilled migrants who often encounter hurdles in the labour market. In this paper, we probe the 'cosmopolitan paradox' and its implications. Th…
Ambivalent Mobilities? Social Resilience and the Experiences of International Students in Canada
Canada has turned to recruiting growing numbers of international students as part of its broader neoliberal “managed migration” strategy designed to realize economic goals. Canadian universities have come to the fore as key players in the active recruitment of students from abroad. In this paper we draw on the analytic concept of “social resilience” to examine the role of universities in developing structures and mechanisms that promote and/or hi…
Political science (14 works) · Economics (11 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (7 works) · Business (6 works) · Economic growth (5 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (5 works)