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‘Escaping’ managed labour migration: worker exit as precarious migrant agency
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The authors narrows in on the mundane yet extraordinary events surrounding migrant farm workers' decisions to leave their state-approved employment and to seek a better life in Canada outside of the US.Abstract:
This article narrows in on the mundane yet extraordinary events surrounding migrant farm workers’ decisions to leave their state-approved employment and to seek a better life in Canada outside of s...read more
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The Human Condition.
TL;DR: In some religious traditions, the myth of the ‘Fall from the Garden of Eden’ symbolizes the loss of the primordial state through the veiling of higher consciousness.
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Working the Boundaries: Race, Space, and “Illegality” in Mexican Chicago. By Nicholas De Genova. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2005. Pp. xii+329. $22.95 (paper).
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Parallel Precarity: : A Comparison of U.S. and Canadian Agricultural Guestworker Programs
TL;DR: In this article, the authors compare agricultural guest worker programs in Canada and the United States and show that despite differences in the policy environment and structure of the programs, they present similar outcomes of systemic precarity for participating workers.
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Frenzied synchronicities: reworking the rhythms of temporary labour migration
TL;DR: This article examined low-wage migrant workers' experiences of secondary internal mobility within Canada during the period between 2011-2016 during which the federal government imposed an immigrati... and found that the secondary mobility experienced by migrants was positively correlated with their earnings.
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Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that it is acceptable, even necessary, to grieve some lives, while others are not valued or are even incomprehensible as lives at all, and argue against the rhetorical use of the charge of anti-semitism to quell public debate.
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Exit, Voice, and Loyalty: Responses to Decline in Firms, Organizations, and States
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The Human Condition.
TL;DR: In some religious traditions, the myth of the ‘Fall from the Garden of Eden’ symbolizes the loss of the primordial state through the veiling of higher consciousness.
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The art of not being governed : an anarchist history of upland Southeast Asia
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Snowball sampling: using social networks to research non‐heterosexual women
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