Temporary migration, precarious employment and unfree labour relations: Exploring the ‘continuum of exploitation’ in Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration forms

  • Low-skilled migration
  • Short-term and circular migration
  • Labour migration
  • Irregular migration
  • Trafficking

• Migration infrastructures

  • Human traffickers

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Media representations of migration

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Migrant businesses and entrepreneurship
  • (Sexual) Exploitation

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Employers, labour and trade unions
  • Knowledge producers and providers

• Migration policy and law

  • Policies on low and semi-skilled labour migration
  • Policies on short term (i.e. circular, seasonal) migration
  • Policies on mobility

Geographies

• Scope

  • Global

• UN Countries

  • Canada