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Title:
(Mis)managing migration : guestworkers' experiences with North American labor markets / edited by David Griffith.
Edition:
First edition.
Publisher:
School for Advanced Research Press,
Copyright Date:
2014
Description:
xxxii, 274 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Foreign workers--Government policy--United States.
Foreign workers--Government policy--Canada.
Labor market--United States.
Labor market--Canada.
Other Authors:
Griffith, David, 1951- editor.
School for Advanced Research (Santa Fe, N.M.)
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
1. "Risk the Truck": Guestworker-Sending States and the Myth of Managed Migration / Cindy Hahamovitch 2. The H-2A Program: Evolution, Impacts, and Outlook / Philip Martin -- 3. Temporary Foreign Workers in Canada: Flexible Labor in the Twenty-First Century / Josephine Smart -- 4. Managed Migration and Changing Workplace Regimes in Canadian Agriculture / Kerry Preibisch -- 5. Guestworkers in the Fabrication and Shipbuilding Industry along the Gulf of Mexico: An Anomaly or a New Source of Labor? / Diane Austin -- 6. From Perfect to Imperfect Immigrants: Family Relations and the Managed Migration of Seafood Workers between Sinaloa, Mexico, and North Carolina / David Griffith and Ricardo Contreras -- 7. The Potential and Pitfalls of Social Remittances: Guatemalan Women and Labor Migration to Canada / Christine Hughes -- 8. Global Trends, Local Outcomes: Globalization and the Foreign-Born Temporary Labor Force in the Shenandoah Valley Apple Industry / Micah N. Bump, El¿ơbieta M. Go¿ðdziak, and B. Lindsay Lowell -- 9. A History of Activism: The Organizational Work of Juvencio Rocha Peralta / Juvencio Rocha Peralta, David Griffith, and Ricardo Contreras -- Conclusion: Promises of Guestworker Programs / David Griffith.
Series:
School for Advanced Research advanced seminar series
ISBN:
1938645030
9781938645037
OCLC:
(OCoLC)852488230
LCCN:
2013013737
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

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