Migraent Workers In Canada

(Beamer, 2011). Culture shock then extends to the four stages of Euphoria, disillusionment and frustration, they do try to adjust and finally intregrate. All these emotions could cause a lot of problems for the foreign workers. It should be noted that some of the tempoaray foreign workers come from high context cultures and might fond the way Canadians express themselves rather aggressive and intrussive. Communication breakdown results in misunderstanding btween the foreign workers, local workers and possibl management. This then leads to other issues which can impede interaction with local populations and create obstacles in workplaces. It also notes that tension is seen with respect to temporary foreign workers experiencing racism and harassment. Temporary foreign workers may contribute to an overall lowering of wages.

Considering the core working group of women category (25-54 years) The employment rate of recent immigrants whereas Canadian women in the same women was 57.1% compare to 69.7% of the same age group of women in total immigrant population. Whereas Canadian women in the same group would most likely to be employed with an employment rate of 79.2%. The unemployment rate for the core working group was 8.8% compare to 5.2% of native born women of same age (Women in Canada: A gender based statistical report: Tamara Hudon October 21st 2015).A statistical report of 1995 reveal that the presence of Immigrant women in construction, product fabrication or primary processing occupations are 16% compare to Canadian born women and there by 9increasing the risk of occupational safety factors. Occupational health and safety factors are also explicit concern for immigrant women working outdoors.(vis and jce,weinfield Dupree,Abdool

Cundal and Seaman discuss the many ways in which the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) is abused and the effects of this misuse on the workers. Temporary Foreign Workers (TFW) are working jobs that should be classified as long term positions, not short term. This incorrect classification affects a worker’s salary, healthcare plan, pension, vacation pay, and sick days. Cundal and Seaman also address the ways in which TFW are more susceptible to employer abuse than other workers. Temporary Foreign Workers must apply for a Labour Market Opinion (LMO) before switching employers, which can take up to five months; most workers cannot afford to live without a source of income for this length of time. This usually compels workers to keep serious issues private. Many workers are also uninformed about their basic rights, which often leaves them exposed to mistreatment or abuse by employers. Cundal, an immigration lawyer in Calgary and Seaman, a human rights and civil liberties researcher wrote an unbiased and fact based article using a wide variety of sources including articles, reports, and newsletters. Cundal and Seaman provided an extensive reference list in addition to footnotes to support their writing. The authors not only address the human rights issues faced by TFW’s, they also identify ways in which these issues can be resolved. Cundal and Seaman however, fail to provide information on how many TFW are affected by employer abuse and exploitation. This information is

In this documentary about Mexican’s workers experience in Ontario, Canada, Min Sook Lee addresses the issue of the Foreign Temporary Worker program. Specifically, El Contrado demonstrates how Mexicans come to Canada in order to work during several months under bad working conditions. Those workers have to leave their family constantly in order to help them financially. They work 8 months a year, which means that they are home in Mexico only for 4 months (El Contrado). Maximo left his family behind; unfortunately, he cannot even for four months in order to see his son as he is illegal in Canada. As those Mexican workers, Maximo experienced bad working conditions. Here he briefly talks about working conditions and explains how he wanted to get

Immigrants today now have the privilege of entering and residing in Canada but along with this privilege, there are also barriers that impede their integration and deprive them of equal opportunity in the society. The undervaluing of foreign education and credentials has emerged over the years as a huge obstacle faced by recent immigrants who seek employment in the areas that they have been trained, and worked in for decades in their respective home countries. For years, newcomers in Canada have been denied inclusion into the Canadian labour market simply because of policies that were

Employee skills and the ability of employers to attract and retain skilled workers will be a primary concern to Canada’s economy in the immediate future. A train overflowing with crisis is approaching, and we need to stop listening for it to come because it’s already bearing down on us. Labour and skill shortages in Canada can be attributed to: aging population, increased life expectancy, migration of highly skilled labour, and the disparity between the skills possessed by youth and the skills demanded by employers.

This article provides detailed information that give statistics based on distinguishing immigrant classes: “Tables 2 (for males) and 3 (for females) present descriptive statistics by broad immigrant class across the three cycles of the survey. … For both genders, it is clear that skilled worker principal applicants have higher educational attainment, and it is also apparent that males have higher averages than females”. This article is distinct from the other two articles by the fact that many more statistics are offered. These extra statistics offer more insight into the descriptions of the economical immigrant policies. Moreover, the article offers an insight into a range of policy proposals in determining how immigrants can immigrate into Canada. The articles introduction mentions important policies that the Canadian government put into place: Recent examples include the Ontario Expert Roundtable on Immigration (2012) and the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Canada. The paper presents a basic description of differences in labour market outcomes, including both earnings and employments. This is an important statement as it informs the reader about the various types of concepts, along with their sources, that have

At twelve years of age, I awoke to three urgent nocks. Rubbing the sleep from my eyes, I opened the door to be greeted by one of my dad’s friend from work informing me my father had fallen from the ladder picking cherries that morning and was being taken to the hospital. Fear took over my body at the thought of what could have happened to my dad. With only my three other siblings at home and my mom working, we had to wait until my dad got home or my mom. Fortunately nothing too serious happened to my dad that morning. What had happened made me realize the dangers migrant workers face every day they work.

The above quote from Wills “London’s Migrant Division of Labor” demonstrates how the hiring opportunities provided by globalization can often lead to inequality among workers. Typically when we think of inequality relation to labor caused by globalization, we think of the unequal treatment the foreign workers face by companies that hire abroad. Companies realized that they are able to pay workers less and lower the quality of working conditions in nations with minimal regulation and poor economies. However, inequality also exists in developed nations. As this article, and specifically this quote, points out, companies realize that they can use immigration policies to their advantage in filling low-level position that ‘natives’ are willing to

Migrant workers may relocate between countries illegally with no visa or on the working visa that may be give temporarily to access the country and continue their stay after it expired with no protection. In addition, local potential employees can be still victims if factories use employment agencies to find new or more employees because human trafficking does not require transportation across the country boarders. Those agencies may impose excessive recruitment fees on workers what makes them to be bonded to the agency. Also, another way of exploiting workers by agencies is when they receive payments from the factories, deduct processing fees and then pay little or nothing to the workers that have been employed through the agency.

“According to the International Labor Organization (ILO), almost 21 million people worldwide are currently being held against their will and coerced to work under threats of intimidation, violence, economic or immigration status reprisal” (Grossman).

Taranto, Claudia. 2015 "Workers without borders: the rise of temporary migrant labour" Retrieved from http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/earshot/the-rise-of-temporary-migrant-labour/6472368

I will expand later on this paper about the arenas of constraint that the author wrote about for migrant workers in the conclusion of the first chapter, as it is a topic that needs to be unpacked greatly.

The key stakeholders affected by the replacement of the 457 visa with the TSS are trade unions and business employers/sponsor – of large corporations and small medium enterprises. Most Australian trade unions were sceptical of the 457 visa and received the new TSS readily. Caspersz (2015) posits that trade unions were concerned with and challenged the moral ethics by which overseas workers entered, lived and worked in Australia under the 457 visa. She argues that most overseas workers were significantly disadvantaged in the labour market because of the diversion from the fill of critical skill shortage to employment of cheap labour (Caspersz, 2015). Campbell and Tham (2014) note that most trade unions such as the Australian Industry Group criticize the 457 visa’s lack of practical requirement such as English proficiency and critical skill testing that relegates the process to a mere migration stunt. One evidence of diversion from 457 visa initial motive is the ban imposed on Australian fast food chains from recruiting foreign workers in March 2017 (Conifer, 2017). The temporary skill visa was meant to hire genuine critical skill candidates and not low skill candidates. However, this narrative has changed and some trade unions assume that the TSS will streamline the

Approximately 10-12 million Filipinos work as migrants abroad; the number of people leaving the country to find work is so high that migration is a regular part of life in the Philippines (Pardis, 121). Due to deeply embedded structural flows of capital and labor present in postcolonial/neocolonial economic arrangements, the Philippines depend on migrant labor as a significant export (Pardis, 123). The combination of neoliberal policies and globalization result in push and pull forces across portions of societies and national borders that motivate migration in search of employment or safety, such as increasing poverty and anemic development, causing the Philippines to rely significantly on migrant labor to strengthen the domestic economy. (Pardis, 143). The heavy reliance on migrant labor has created, in some instances, a situation of forced migration that renders potential migrants at risk of being a trafficked person prone to exploitation as cheap labor, bonded workers, or prostitutes (Saat, 137). Aspirant migrants depend on others to facilitate their movement, making them susceptible to criminal intentions of those offering work opportunities abroad and organizing travel requirements (Kempadoo, 74). The logistics of migration (recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring, or receipt of persons) do not constitute trafficking when carried out formally and the person is fully informed of the conditions of work and understandings of payments and obligations