Liberating Temporariness?: Migration, Work, and Citizenship in an Age of Insecurity 9780773592223
An in-depth and wide-ranging critique and analysis of the rising tide of temporariness in political and social life.
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English Pages [401] Year 2014
Table of contents :
Cover
LIBERATING TEMPORARINESS?
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Liberating Temporariness? Imagining Alternatives to Permanence as a Pathway for Social Inclusion
PART ONE SECURITY, TEMPORARY STATUS, AND RIGHTS
1 Rethinking Canadian Citizenship: The Politics of Social Exclusion in the Age of Security and Suppression
2 Permanent Patriots and Temporary Predators? Post-9/11 Institutionalization of the Arab/Orientalized “Other” in the United States and the Contributions of Arendt and Said
3 Indefinitely Pending: Security Certificates and Permanent Temporariness
PART TWO INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND TRANSNATIONAL DYNAMICS OF TEMPORARY WORK
4 Managed Migration and the Temporary Labour Fix
5 Institutionalizing Temporary Labour Migration in Europe: Creating an “In-between”’ Migration Status
6 The Permanence of Temporary Labour Mobility: Migrant Worker Programs across Australia, Canada, and New Zealand
PART THREE TEMPORARY STATUS, SOCIAL WELFARE, AND MARGINALIZATION
7 Brain Circulation or Precarious Labour? Conceptualizing Temporariness in the United Kingdom’s National Health Service
8 Language Training and Labour Market Integration for Newcomers to Canada
9 Resituating Temporariness as the Precarity and Conditionality of Non-citizenship
10 Constructing and “Liberating” Temporariness in the Canadian Non-profit Sector: Neoliberalism and Non-profit Service Providers
PART FOUR (RE) FRAMING TEMPORARINESS
11 Mexican Migrant Transnationalism and Imaginaries of Temporary/Permanent Belonging
12 Temporariness: Other than Permanence, and in the Lives of People – Always …
13 Temporal Orders, Re-collective Justice, and the Making of Untimely States
Contributors
Index
