Blacklisting as a modality of deportability

Mexico's response to circular migrant agricultural workers' pursuit of collective bargaining rights in British Columbia, Canada

Dados Bibliográficos

ID7843580
AutoresL F Vosko (0000-0002-5506-7742, York University, autor correspondente)
Ano2016
Volume42
Fascículo8
Páginas1371-1387
Data de publicação2016-06-20
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoNew Community (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0047-9586 • E-ISSN: 1469-9451
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/1369183x.2015.1111134
OpenAlexW2178552753
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas22
Referências citadas20

This article illustrates how blacklisting can function as a modality of deportability among temporary migrant workers participating in a programme touted as a model of ordered migration internationally, with attention to sending state action. In 2010, Local 1518 of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union applied successfully to British Columbia's Labour Relations Board to represent a group of circular migrants engaged under Canada's Seasonal Agricultural Worker Programme. Yet less than a year later, the union complained of unfair labour practices on the part of not only the host state employer and certain employees but sending state officials who select and assign workers to Canadian employers, contending that they blocked the visa reapplications of union members eligible for recall and improperly interfered in a decertification application. On account of the unique empirics available through this case, its analysis offers a window into practices which are routinely obscured but nevertheless central to how deportability operates

Agriculture · Blacklisting · Collective bargaining · Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Migrant workers · Political science · Employment and Welfare Studies · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics