L Goldring
Biographic Data
| ID | 4695 |
|---|---|
| NAME | L Goldring |
| GIVEN NAMES | L |
| FAMILY NAME | Goldring |
| SIGNATURE | GOLDRING L |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9211-6745 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 809 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
Precarious legal status trajectories as method, and the work of legal status
Critiques of 'fantasy citizenship' include calls to migrantize the citizen and denationalize citizenship and migration studies. In response, this essay proposes 'precarious legal status trajectories (PLSTs) as method', with a focus on the work of legal status. This approach captures changes in sociolegal status trajectories, including illegalization, and builds a 'thicker' approach to trajectories. The work of status refers to effort, time, money…
From illegalised migrant toward permanent resident: Assembling precarious legal status trajectories and differential inclusion in Canada
Precarious legal status trajectories (PLSTs) are marked by periods without state authorisation and/or forms of temporary authorisation. They are temporally prolonged and directionally unpredictable, and may be spatially, juridically and substantively discontinuous. Their complexity poses challenges for researchers interested in the relationship between changes in legal status and differential inclusion. We examine the trajectories of illegalised …
Mechanisms of migrant exclusion: Temporary labour, precarious noncitizenship, and technologies of detention
‘Mechanisms of Migrant Exclusion’ focuses on the exclusionary measures that migrant workers confront. Although migration studies have long attended to various social and structural systems of exclusion, for instance, xenophobia and nativism (De Genova, 2005, https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822387091 ; Golash‐Boza, 2011, https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203123928 , and 2015, https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479894666.001.0001 ), recent global shifts in imm…
Decentering methodological nationalism to survey precarious legal status trajectories
We examine how the politics of knowledge production limit research on the relationship between immigration status and social inequality. We centre the practices of methodological nationalism in Canada, a traditional country of permanent immigration in which temporary migration has become a core feature of the immigration system. In this case, state classification and counting of populations, and the careful curation of data on nominally permanent…
A Preliminary Investigation into Private Refugee Sponsors
Faith-based and other civil society organizations, along with more ad-hoc groups of Canadians, have sustained a continuous program of private refugee sponsorship in Canada for 40 years. The Syrian refugee exodus inspired thousands of Canadians with little or no prior experience to also take up refugee sponsorship. Little is known about private sponsors, their characteristics and experiences, and the impact of sponsorship on them. This article und…
The Power of Status in Transnational Social Fields 1
This chapter addresses the question of why migrants or transmigrants from Mexico construct and maintain transnational social fields. It reviews reasons for transnationalism and their applicability to the Mexico-United States case, and makes an argument for analyzing status in transnational migration. The chapter discusses practices related to the claiming and valorization of status in transnational social fields with reference to individuals, fam…
Assembling noncitizenship through the work of conditionality
We develop a framework for understanding noncitizenship that combines attention to systemic processes with interest in contingency and indeterminacy in the production and substantive practices associated with noncitizen legal status categories and trajectories. We argue that noncitizenship is a dynamic, multi-scalar assemblage that brings together disparate elements in patterned and changing ways. Individuals and institutions generate the formal …
Cross border migrant organizations in comparative perspectives
Resituating Temporariness as the Precarity and Conditionality of Non-citizenship 1
Unpacking Refugee Community Transnational Organizing: The Challenges and Diverse Experiences of Colombians in Canada
Unpacking Refugee Community Transnational Organizing: The Challenges and Diverse Experiences of Colombians in Canada Get access Pilar Riaño-Alcalá, Pilar Riaño-Alcalá Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Luin Goldring Luin Goldring * Pilar Riaño-Alcalá is Associate Professor at the School of Social Work and Liu Institute for Global Issues, University of British Columbia, and Luin Goldring is Associate Professor…
From ‘remittance’ to ‘tax’: The shifting meanings and strategies of capture of the Eritrean transnational party-state
For decades, mass out migration has remained a defining characteristic of Eritrea. The country's first major refugee crisis occurred in the early 1980s, in the midst of its liberation movement. Upon gaining resettlement in the industrialized world, Eritreans overwhelming continued their support of the liberation war, both financially and politically. Since independence, the ruling government adopted strong measures to ensure the diaspora's contin…
The Conditionality of Legal Status and Rights: Conceptualizing Precarious Non-citizenship in Canada
Producing and Negotiating Non-Citizenship: Precarious Legal Status in Canada
This timely volume contributes to conceptualizing multiple forms of precarious status non-citizenship as connected through policy and the practices of migrants and the institutional actors they encounter
Caught in the Work–Citizenship Matrix: The Lasting Effects of Precarious Legal Status on Work for Toronto Immigrants
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, negati…
Agenda Setting and Immigrant Politics: The Case of Latin Americans in Toronto
The authors identify and analyze patterns of community organizing among Latin Americans in Toronto for the period from the 1970s to the 2000s as part of a broader analysis of Latin American immigrant politics. They draw on the concept of social fields to map Latin American community politics and to capture a wide range of relevant organizations, events, and strategic moments that feed into the constitution of more visible and formal organizations…
Political cultures and transnational social fields: Chileans, Colombians and Canadian activists in Toronto
We offer an institutional analysis of Chilean and Colombian transnational politics in Toronto to account for cross-group variation in transnational political practices and the formation of different types of transnational social fields of political action. The article is based on interviews conducted with Chilean and Colombian community activists and Canadian refugee rights and social justice activists. We use the concept of political culture to …
Institutionalizing precarious migratory status in Canada
This paper analyzes the institutionalized production of precarious migration status in Canada. Building on recent work on the legal production of illegality and non-dichotomous approaches to migratory status, we review Canadian immigration and refugee policy, and analyze pathways to loss of migratory status and the implications of less than full status for access to social services. In Canada, policies provide various avenues of authorized entry,…
Immigrant political socialization as bridging and boundary work: Mapping the multi-layered incorporation of Latin American immigrants in Toronto
We present a longitudinal map of three overlapping organizational trajectories developed by Latin American immigrants in the city of Toronto. We propose the concept of bridging and boundary work to specify how new (1) intersectional political identities and organizational agendas are constituted by Latin American feminist women and artists in \nthe interstice of (2) country-of-origin and (3) mainstream pan-ethnic organizations. Boundary work occu…
Christian Zlolniski, Review of: Janitors, Street Vendors and Activists: The Lives of Mexican Immigrants in Silicon Valley
Transnationalizing Families: Canadian Immigration Policy and the Spatial Fragmentation of Care‐giving among Latin American Newcomers 1
Complex factors associated with migration and immigration policies contribute to the dispersion of families across space. We draw on interviews with 40 Latin American women in Toronto who experienced separation from children as a result of migration and argue that Canadian immigration policy and elements of the women’s context of departure lead to the systemic production of transnational family arrangements. Once in Canada, the women dealt with u…
Living with Precarious Legal Status in Canada: Implications for the Well-Being of Children and Families
This study focused on the effects of precarious status on the well-being of fifteen participants with particular attention to their attempts to claim services, their feelings of belonging and sense of social support, and the effects of parents’ status on children. It investigates ways in which the status of one family member can affect the well-being of the entire family. Those who had children reported that the family’s status disadvantaged thei…
Family and Collective Remittances to Mexico: A Multi-dimensional Typology
The development potential of remittances has resurfaced as a topic of analysis, based in part on dramatic increases in migration and amounts of money 'sent home', and partly in the growing interest and involvement by states and non-state actors in gaining leverage over remittances. The trend is indicative of an emerging remittance-based component of development and poverty reduction planning. This article uses the case of Mexico to make two broad…
The Mexican State and Transmigrant Organizations: Negotiating the Boundaries of Membership and Participation
This article examines relations between the Mexican state and transmigrants through an analysis of migrant- and state-led transnational practices and policies. It addresses discussions of the strength and extent of Mexican state control and hegemony as well as debates in the transnationalism literature on the potential autonomy of transmigrant groups and the role of subnational linkages. The analysis is based on information on transmigrant organi…
The Gender and Geography of Citizenship in Mexico‐U.S. Transnational Spaces
This paper proposes an approach for analyzing the gender and geography of citizenship practices in transnational social spaces in order to contribute to theorizing on state-transmigrant relations and citizenship. Drawing on feminist scholarship on citizenship I concep- tualize citizenship as including formal rights and substantive citizenship practices that are exercised in relafion to different levels of political authority, and in different geo…
Seeking Common Ground: Multidisciplinary Studies of Immigrant Women in the United States
Introduction by Donna Gabaccia The Study of Immigrant Women in History, Sociology and Anthropology The Treatment of Women in Immigration History: A Call for Change by Sydney Stahl Weinberg Sociology and Immigrant Women by Rita J. Simon Anthropology and the Study of Immigrant Women by Caroline B. Brettell and Patricia A. deBerjeois The Immigrant Women of the Past The International Marriage Market and the Sphere of Social Reproduction: A German Cas…
Continuities in Transnational Migration: An Analysis of Nineteen Mexican Communities
Researchers working in Mexican communities have observed both regularities and inconsistencies in the way that transnational migration develops over time. This article presents a theory that accounts for these uniformities and discrepancies and proposes a method to compara the process of migration across communities. It also argues that studies must report and control for the prevalence of migration within communities. Data from 19 Mexican commun…
Institutionalizing precarious migratory status in Canada
This paper analyzes the institutionalized production of precarious migration status in Canada. Building on recent work on the legal production of illegality and non-dichotomous approaches to migratory status, we review Canadian immigration and refugee policy, and analyze pathways to loss of migratory status and the implications of less than full status for access to social services. In Canada, policies provide various avenues of authorized entry,…
Producing and Negotiating Non-Citizenship: Precarious Legal Status in Canada
This timely volume contributes to conceptualizing multiple forms of precarious status non-citizenship as connected through policy and the practices of migrants and the institutional actors they encounter
Caught in the Work–Citizenship Matrix: The Lasting Effects of Precarious Legal Status on Work for Toronto Immigrants
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, negati…
Family and Collective Remittances to Mexico: A Multi-dimensional Typology
The development potential of remittances has resurfaced as a topic of analysis, based in part on dramatic increases in migration and amounts of money 'sent home', and partly in the growing interest and involvement by states and non-state actors in gaining leverage over remittances. The trend is indicative of an emerging remittance-based component of development and poverty reduction planning. This article uses the case of Mexico to make two broad…
Transnationalizing Families: Canadian Immigration Policy and the Spatial Fragmentation of Care‐giving among Latin American Newcomers 1
Complex factors associated with migration and immigration policies contribute to the dispersion of families across space. We draw on interviews with 40 Latin American women in Toronto who experienced separation from children as a result of migration and argue that Canadian immigration policy and elements of the women’s context of departure lead to the systemic production of transnational family arrangements. Once in Canada, the women dealt with u…
The Gender and Geography of Citizenship in Mexico‐U.S. Transnational Spaces
This paper proposes an approach for analyzing the gender and geography of citizenship practices in transnational social spaces in order to contribute to theorizing on state-transmigrant relations and citizenship. Drawing on feminist scholarship on citizenship I concep- tualize citizenship as including formal rights and substantive citizenship practices that are exercised in relafion to different levels of political authority, and in different geo…
Assembling noncitizenship through the work of conditionality
We develop a framework for understanding noncitizenship that combines attention to systemic processes with interest in contingency and indeterminacy in the production and substantive practices associated with noncitizen legal status categories and trajectories. We argue that noncitizenship is a dynamic, multi-scalar assemblage that brings together disparate elements in patterned and changing ways. Individuals and institutions generate the formal …
From illegalised migrant toward permanent resident: Assembling precarious legal status trajectories and differential inclusion in Canada
Precarious legal status trajectories (PLSTs) are marked by periods without state authorisation and/or forms of temporary authorisation. They are temporally prolonged and directionally unpredictable, and may be spatially, juridically and substantively discontinuous. Their complexity poses challenges for researchers interested in the relationship between changes in legal status and differential inclusion. We examine the trajectories of illegalised …
A Preliminary Investigation into Private Refugee Sponsors
Faith-based and other civil society organizations, along with more ad-hoc groups of Canadians, have sustained a continuous program of private refugee sponsorship in Canada for 40 years. The Syrian refugee exodus inspired thousands of Canadians with little or no prior experience to also take up refugee sponsorship. Little is known about private sponsors, their characteristics and experiences, and the impact of sponsorship on them. This article und…
Immigrant political socialization as bridging and boundary work: Mapping the multi-layered incorporation of Latin American immigrants in Toronto
We present a longitudinal map of three overlapping organizational trajectories developed by Latin American immigrants in the city of Toronto. We propose the concept of bridging and boundary work to specify how new (1) intersectional political identities and organizational agendas are constituted by Latin American feminist women and artists in \nthe interstice of (2) country-of-origin and (3) mainstream pan-ethnic organizations. Boundary work occu…
Living with Precarious Legal Status in Canada: Implications for the Well-Being of Children and Families
This study focused on the effects of precarious status on the well-being of fifteen participants with particular attention to their attempts to claim services, their feelings of belonging and sense of social support, and the effects of parents’ status on children. It investigates ways in which the status of one family member can affect the well-being of the entire family. Those who had children reported that the family’s status disadvantaged thei…
Political cultures and transnational social fields: Chileans, Colombians and Canadian activists in Toronto
We offer an institutional analysis of Chilean and Colombian transnational politics in Toronto to account for cross-group variation in transnational political practices and the formation of different types of transnational social fields of political action. The article is based on interviews conducted with Chilean and Colombian community activists and Canadian refugee rights and social justice activists. We use the concept of political culture to …
Precarious legal status trajectories as method, and the work of legal status
Critiques of 'fantasy citizenship' include calls to migrantize the citizen and denationalize citizenship and migration studies. In response, this essay proposes 'precarious legal status trajectories (PLSTs) as method', with a focus on the work of legal status. This approach captures changes in sociolegal status trajectories, including illegalization, and builds a 'thicker' approach to trajectories. The work of status refers to effort, time, money…
Mechanisms of migrant exclusion: Temporary labour, precarious noncitizenship, and technologies of detention
‘Mechanisms of Migrant Exclusion’ focuses on the exclusionary measures that migrant workers confront. Although migration studies have long attended to various social and structural systems of exclusion, for instance, xenophobia and nativism (De Genova, 2005, https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822387091 ; Golash‐Boza, 2011, https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203123928 , and 2015, https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479894666.001.0001 ), recent global shifts in imm…
From ‘remittance’ to ‘tax’: The shifting meanings and strategies of capture of the Eritrean transnational party-state
For decades, mass out migration has remained a defining characteristic of Eritrea. The country's first major refugee crisis occurred in the early 1980s, in the midst of its liberation movement. Upon gaining resettlement in the industrialized world, Eritreans overwhelming continued their support of the liberation war, both financially and politically. Since independence, the ruling government adopted strong measures to ensure the diaspora's contin…
Unpacking Refugee Community Transnational Organizing: The Challenges and Diverse Experiences of Colombians in Canada
Unpacking Refugee Community Transnational Organizing: The Challenges and Diverse Experiences of Colombians in Canada Get access Pilar Riaño-Alcalá, Pilar Riaño-Alcalá Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Luin Goldring Luin Goldring * Pilar Riaño-Alcalá is Associate Professor at the School of Social Work and Liu Institute for Global Issues, University of British Columbia, and Luin Goldring is Associate Professor…
Decentering methodological nationalism to survey precarious legal status trajectories
We examine how the politics of knowledge production limit research on the relationship between immigration status and social inequality. We centre the practices of methodological nationalism in Canada, a traditional country of permanent immigration in which temporary migration has become a core feature of the immigration system. In this case, state classification and counting of populations, and the careful curation of data on nominally permanent…
Agenda Setting and Immigrant Politics: The Case of Latin Americans in Toronto
The authors identify and analyze patterns of community organizing among Latin Americans in Toronto for the period from the 1970s to the 2000s as part of a broader analysis of Latin American immigrant politics. They draw on the concept of social fields to map Latin American community politics and to capture a wide range of relevant organizations, events, and strategic moments that feed into the constitution of more visible and formal organizations…
Migración México - Estados Unidos de América y la transnacionalización del espacio político y social
Una revista científica, con revisión por pares, que publica investigación empírica y contribuciones teóricas en sociología, antropología, sociodemografía, y disciplinas afines. Nuestra misión es presentar los resultados de la investigación de la más alta calidad, con énfasis en América Latina, pero con proyección y alcance global
Seeking Common Ground: Multidisciplinary Studies of Immigrant Women in the United States
Introduction by Donna Gabaccia The Study of Immigrant Women in History, Sociology and Anthropology The Treatment of Women in Immigration History: A Call for Change by Sydney Stahl Weinberg Sociology and Immigrant Women by Rita J. Simon Anthropology and the Study of Immigrant Women by Caroline B. Brettell and Patricia A. deBerjeois The Immigrant Women of the Past The International Marriage Market and the Sphere of Social Reproduction: A German Cas…
Continuities in Transnational Migration: An Analysis of Nineteen Mexican Communities
Researchers working in Mexican communities have observed both regularities and inconsistencies in the way that transnational migration develops over time. This article presents a theory that accounts for these uniformities and discrepancies and proposes a method to compara the process of migration across communities. It also argues that studies must report and control for the prevalence of migration within communities. Data from 19 Mexican commun…
The Gender and Geography of Citizenship in Mexico‐U.S. Transnational Spaces
This paper proposes an approach for analyzing the gender and geography of citizenship practices in transnational social spaces in order to contribute to theorizing on state-transmigrant relations and citizenship. Drawing on feminist scholarship on citizenship I concep- tualize citizenship as including formal rights and substantive citizenship practices that are exercised in relafion to different levels of political authority, and in different geo…
The Mexican State and Transmigrant Organizations: Negotiating the Boundaries of Membership and Participation
This article examines relations between the Mexican state and transmigrants through an analysis of migrant- and state-led transnational practices and policies. It addresses discussions of the strength and extent of Mexican state control and hegemony as well as debates in the transnationalism literature on the potential autonomy of transmigrant groups and the role of subnational linkages. The analysis is based on information on transmigrant organi…
Family and Collective Remittances to Mexico: A Multi-dimensional Typology
The development potential of remittances has resurfaced as a topic of analysis, based in part on dramatic increases in migration and amounts of money 'sent home', and partly in the growing interest and involvement by states and non-state actors in gaining leverage over remittances. The trend is indicative of an emerging remittance-based component of development and poverty reduction planning. This article uses the case of Mexico to make two broad…
Living with Precarious Legal Status in Canada: Implications for the Well-Being of Children and Families
This study focused on the effects of precarious status on the well-being of fifteen participants with particular attention to their attempts to claim services, their feelings of belonging and sense of social support, and the effects of parents’ status on children. It investigates ways in which the status of one family member can affect the well-being of the entire family. Those who had children reported that the family’s status disadvantaged thei…
Christian Zlolniski, Review of: Janitors, Street Vendors and Activists: The Lives of Mexican Immigrants in Silicon Valley
Transnationalizing Families: Canadian Immigration Policy and the Spatial Fragmentation of Care‐giving among Latin American Newcomers 1
Complex factors associated with migration and immigration policies contribute to the dispersion of families across space. We draw on interviews with 40 Latin American women in Toronto who experienced separation from children as a result of migration and argue that Canadian immigration policy and elements of the women’s context of departure lead to the systemic production of transnational family arrangements. Once in Canada, the women dealt with u…
Institutionalizing precarious migratory status in Canada
This paper analyzes the institutionalized production of precarious migration status in Canada. Building on recent work on the legal production of illegality and non-dichotomous approaches to migratory status, we review Canadian immigration and refugee policy, and analyze pathways to loss of migratory status and the implications of less than full status for access to social services. In Canada, policies provide various avenues of authorized entry,…
Immigrant political socialization as bridging and boundary work: Mapping the multi-layered incorporation of Latin American immigrants in Toronto
We present a longitudinal map of three overlapping organizational trajectories developed by Latin American immigrants in the city of Toronto. We propose the concept of bridging and boundary work to specify how new (1) intersectional political identities and organizational agendas are constituted by Latin American feminist women and artists in \nthe interstice of (2) country-of-origin and (3) mainstream pan-ethnic organizations. Boundary work occu…
Political cultures and transnational social fields: Chileans, Colombians and Canadian activists in Toronto
We offer an institutional analysis of Chilean and Colombian transnational politics in Toronto to account for cross-group variation in transnational political practices and the formation of different types of transnational social fields of political action. The article is based on interviews conducted with Chilean and Colombian community activists and Canadian refugee rights and social justice activists. We use the concept of political culture to …
Caught in the Work–Citizenship Matrix: The Lasting Effects of Precarious Legal Status on Work for Toronto Immigrants
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, negati…
Agenda Setting and Immigrant Politics: The Case of Latin Americans in Toronto
The authors identify and analyze patterns of community organizing among Latin Americans in Toronto for the period from the 1970s to the 2000s as part of a broader analysis of Latin American immigrant politics. They draw on the concept of social fields to map Latin American community politics and to capture a wide range of relevant organizations, events, and strategic moments that feed into the constitution of more visible and formal organizations…
The Conditionality of Legal Status and Rights: Conceptualizing Precarious Non-citizenship in Canada
Producing and Negotiating Non-Citizenship: Precarious Legal Status in Canada
This timely volume contributes to conceptualizing multiple forms of precarious status non-citizenship as connected through policy and the practices of migrants and the institutional actors they encounter
From ‘remittance’ to ‘tax’: The shifting meanings and strategies of capture of the Eritrean transnational party-state
For decades, mass out migration has remained a defining characteristic of Eritrea. The country's first major refugee crisis occurred in the early 1980s, in the midst of its liberation movement. Upon gaining resettlement in the industrialized world, Eritreans overwhelming continued their support of the liberation war, both financially and politically. Since independence, the ruling government adopted strong measures to ensure the diaspora's contin…
Resituating Temporariness as the Precarity and Conditionality of Non-citizenship 1
Unpacking Refugee Community Transnational Organizing: The Challenges and Diverse Experiences of Colombians in Canada
Unpacking Refugee Community Transnational Organizing: The Challenges and Diverse Experiences of Colombians in Canada Get access Pilar Riaño-Alcalá, Pilar Riaño-Alcalá Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Luin Goldring Luin Goldring * Pilar Riaño-Alcalá is Associate Professor at the School of Social Work and Liu Institute for Global Issues, University of British Columbia, and Luin Goldring is Associate Professor…
Assembling noncitizenship through the work of conditionality
We develop a framework for understanding noncitizenship that combines attention to systemic processes with interest in contingency and indeterminacy in the production and substantive practices associated with noncitizen legal status categories and trajectories. We argue that noncitizenship is a dynamic, multi-scalar assemblage that brings together disparate elements in patterned and changing ways. Individuals and institutions generate the formal …
Cross border migrant organizations in comparative perspectives
The Power of Status in Transnational Social Fields 1
This chapter addresses the question of why migrants or transmigrants from Mexico construct and maintain transnational social fields. It reviews reasons for transnationalism and their applicability to the Mexico-United States case, and makes an argument for analyzing status in transnational migration. The chapter discusses practices related to the claiming and valorization of status in transnational social fields with reference to individuals, fam…
A Preliminary Investigation into Private Refugee Sponsors
Faith-based and other civil society organizations, along with more ad-hoc groups of Canadians, have sustained a continuous program of private refugee sponsorship in Canada for 40 years. The Syrian refugee exodus inspired thousands of Canadians with little or no prior experience to also take up refugee sponsorship. Little is known about private sponsors, their characteristics and experiences, and the impact of sponsorship on them. This article und…
Mechanisms of migrant exclusion: Temporary labour, precarious noncitizenship, and technologies of detention
‘Mechanisms of Migrant Exclusion’ focuses on the exclusionary measures that migrant workers confront. Although migration studies have long attended to various social and structural systems of exclusion, for instance, xenophobia and nativism (De Genova, 2005, https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822387091 ; Golash‐Boza, 2011, https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203123928 , and 2015, https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479894666.001.0001 ), recent global shifts in imm…
Decentering methodological nationalism to survey precarious legal status trajectories
We examine how the politics of knowledge production limit research on the relationship between immigration status and social inequality. We centre the practices of methodological nationalism in Canada, a traditional country of permanent immigration in which temporary migration has become a core feature of the immigration system. In this case, state classification and counting of populations, and the careful curation of data on nominally permanent…
Political science (26 works) · Sociology (24 works) · Law (21 works) · Politics (18 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (14 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (13 works) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (11 works) · Immigration (11 works) · Law (11 works) · Citizenship (10 works)