Showing papers by "Kendra Strauss published in 2017"
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that conceptualizing forms of unfreedom along a continuum of labour relations highlights this interrelationship, which for migrant workers includes attempts to harness and control mobilities through immigration regimes that restrict mobility bargaining power within labour markets.
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TL;DR: Feminist political economy (FPE) is proliferating at the margins of political, urban and economic geography and migrating to the (somewhat amorphous) centers of these sub-disciplines.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue for the value of geographical approaches to legal scale, and for more geographical research on the process of jurisdiction, and build on work on forced labour and human trafficking.
Abstract: This paper builds on work on forced labour and human trafficking to argue for the value of geographical approaches to legal scale, and for more geographical research on the process of jurisdiction....
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01 May 2017
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TL;DR: The 2015 federal election changed the tenor of the debate about Canadian immigration policy in unexpected ways as discussed by the authors, and the Liberal Party's pledge to admit 25,000 Syrian refugees did not at first seem a vote winner; after terrorist attacks in Paris in November of that year, pollsters claimed that a majority of Canadians opposed Liberal leader Justin Trudeau's plans.
Abstract: The 2015 federal election changed the tenor of the debate about Canadian immigration policy in unexpected ways. The Liberal Party’s pledge to admit 25,000 Syrian refugees did not at first seem a vote winner; after terrorist attacks in Paris in November of that year, pollsters claimed that a majority of Canadians opposed Liberal leader Justin Trudeau’s plans. At the same time, however, Trudeau’s promise seemed to resonate with Canadians eager to see their country lauded again – after the “dark days” of Stephen Harper’s government – as an upholder of human rights. By December of 2015, following the election and the Liberal Party’s victory, the same polls showed that the majority of Canadians favoured the policy of accepting Syrian refugees. This focus on refugees marked a change from one year earlier in the character of the discussion over migration policy. While the Harper government’s treatment of asylum seekers and refugees had garnered some attention beyond activist circles prior to the election, it was economic migration – in particular, the expansion of programs to admit temporary foreign workers (tfws) – that had received the most coverage in 2014 and 2015. The number of Temporary Foreign Worker Program (tfwp) work permit holders had increased from review essay / note critique