TY - BOOK ID - 77902618 TI - Liberating temporariness? : migration, work, and citizenship in an age of insecurity AU - Vosko, Leah F., AU - Vosko, Leah F. AU - Preston-Dunlop, Valerie AU - Latham, Robert PY - 2014 SN - 0773592229 9780773592223 9780773543829 0773543821 9780773543812 0773543813 9780773592230 0773592237 PB - Montréal, Québec : McGill-Queen's University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Foreign workers, Canadian. KW - Foreign workers, Canadian KW - Foreign workers. KW - Foreign workers KW - Alien labor KW - Aliens KW - Foreign labor KW - Guest workers KW - Guestworkers KW - Immigrant labor KW - Immigrant workers KW - Migrant labor (Foreign workers) KW - Migrant workers (Foreign workers) KW - Employees KW - Alien labor, Canadian KW - Canadian foreign workers KW - Social conditions. KW - Employment KW - Social conditions KW - E-books KW - Noncitizen labor KW - Noncitizens UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77902618 AB - Liberating Temporariness? explores the complex ways in which temporariness is being institutionalized as a condition of life for a growing number of people worldwide. The collection emphasizes contemporary developments, but also provides historical context on nation-state membership as the fundamental means for accessing rights in an era of expanding temporariness - in recognition of why pathways to permanence remain so compelling. Through empirical and theoretical analysis, contributors explore various dimensions of temporariness, especially as it relates to the legal status of migrants and refugees, to the spread of precarious employment, and to limitations on social rights. While the focus is on Canada, a number of chapters investigate and contrast developments in Canada with those in Europe as well as Australia and the United States. Together, these essays reveal changing and enduring temporariness at local, regional, national, transnational, and global levels, and in different domains, such as health care, language programs, and security. The question at the heart of this collection is whether temporariness can be liberated from current constraints. While not denying the desirability of permanence for migrants and labourers, Liberating Temporariness? presents alternative possibilities of security and liberation. ER -