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Law Emigration & Immigration

Enforcing Exclusion

Precarious Migrants and the Law in Canada

by (author) Sarah Marsden

Publisher
UBC Press
Initial publish date
Sep 2018
Category
Emigration & Immigration, Immigration
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780774837774
    Publish Date
    Sep 2018
    List Price
    $32.95

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Migrant workers, though long welcomed in Canada for their labour, are often excluded from both workplace protections and basic social benefits such as health care, income assistance, and education. Through interviews with migrants and their advocates, Marsden shows that people with precarious migration status face barriers in law, policy, and practice, affecting their ability to address adverse working conditions and their access to institutions such as hospitals, schools, and employment standards boards. Enforcing Exclusion recasts what migration status means to both the state and to non-citizens, questioning the adequacy of human rights-based responses in addressing its exclusionary effects.

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Contributor Notes

Sarah Grayce Marsden is an assistant professor at Thompson Rivers University Faculty of Law. Her research focuses on migration, labour, and social justice. She has published articles in the Osgoode Hall Law Journal, the Canadian Journal of Law and Society, and the Canadian Labour and Employment Law Journal, among others. She has also co-authored a clinical legal text, Clinical Law: Practice, Theory, and Social Justice Advocacy (with Sarah Buhler and Gemma Smyth).