Post-National Citizenship, Social Exclusion and Migrants Rights: Mexican Seasonal Workers in Canada
- Petsa
2004
- May-akda
Tanya Basok
- Buod
In the past few decades, migrants residing in many European & North American countries have benefited from nation-states' extension of legal rights to non-citizens. This development has prompted many scholars to reflect on the shift from a state-based to a more individual-based universal conception of rights & to suggest that national citizenship has been replaced by post-national citizenship. However, in practice migrants are often deprived of some rights. The article suggests that the ability to claim rights denied to some groups of people depends on their knowledge of the legal framework, communications skills, & support from others. Some groups of migrants are deprived of the knowledge, skills, & support required to negotiate their rights effectively because of their social exclusion from local communities of citizens. The article draws attention to the contradiction in two citizenship principles -- one linked to legal rights prescribed by international conventions & inscribed through international agreements & national laws & policies, & the other to membership in a community. Commitment to the second set of principles may negate any achievements made with respect to the first. The article uses Mexican migrants working in Canada as an illustration, arguing that even though certain legal rights have been granted to them, until recently they had been unable to claim them because they were denied social membership in local & national communities. Recent initiatives among local residents & union & human rights activists to include Mexican workers in their communities of citizens in Leamington, Ontario, Canada, are likely to enhance the Mexican workers' ability to claim their rights. 52 References. Adapted from the source document.
- Journal title
Citizenship Studies
- Dami
8
- Numero
1
- Page numbers
47-64
- Kalakip
- Connections
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- Pang-ekonomiyang sektor
Agriculture and horticulture workers
- Mga Uri ng Nilalaman
Policy analysis and Dokumentado kaso ng pang-aabuso
- Target na mga grupo
Mananaliksik, Mga unyon, and NGO / komunidad group / network ng pagkakaisa
- Regulasyon lugar
Karapatang magpalit ng employer, Karapatan na pumili ng kanilang lugar ng paninirahan, Kanan upang ayusin ang, Labour Standards, Kalusugan at Kaligtasan, Pagsasama-sama ng mga programa para sa mga bagong dating, Kalusugan at Serbisyong Panlipunan, Access sa permanenteng katayuan, Family reunification, Karapatan sa kalayaan, and Karapatan sa karangalan
- Geographical kaugnayan
Canada, Ontario, Alberta, México, Manitoba, Quebec, British Columbia, Iba pang mga Lalawigan, Pederal, and Nova Scotia
- Spheres ng aktibidad
Karapatan and Socioligie
- Wika
Ingles