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HARP-215 |
Title: |
On Being Not Canadian: The Social Organization of ‘Migrant Workers’ in Canada |
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Canadian Review of Sociology & Anthropology; Nov2001, Vol. 38 Issue 4, p415, 25p |
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Year: |
2001 |
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Canada, capitalism, discrimination, economic, social, and cultural rights, employment, globalization, human rights, movement and residency, non-discrimination, institutions, racism, civil and political rights, nationalism, labor market, migrants, ethnography, minority rights |
Abstract: |
Utilizing Dorothy E. Smith’s method of institutional ethnography, I investigate the social organization of our knowledge of people categorized as non-immigrants or “migrant workers.” By examining Canada’s 1973 Non-immigrant Employment Authorization Program (NIEAP), I show the importance of racist and nationalist ideological state practice to the material organization of the competitive “Canadian” labour market within a restructured global capitalism and the resultant reorganization of notions of Canadian nationhood. I show that the parliamentary discursive practice of producing certain people as “problems” for “Canadians” results not in the physical exclusion of those constructed as “foreigners” but in their ideological and material differentiation from Canadians, once such people are living and working within Canadian society. |
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Keywords: Canada, capitalism, civil and political rights, cultural rights, discrimination, economic, employment, ethnography, globalization, human rights, institutions, labor market, migrants, minority rights, movement and residency, nationalism, non-discrimination, racial discrimination/racism, social