Permanently Temporary

Managed Migration in Canada

From: Border and Rule

$1.20

This chapter outlines the history of indentured migrant labour in Canada, and examines the modern Temporary Foreign Worker Program and its abuses.

View

Contributors

Harsha Walia

Harsha Walia is a South Asian activist and writer based in Vancouver, unceded Coast Salish Territories. She has been involved in community-based grassroots migrant justice, feminist, anti-racist, Indigenous solidarity, anti-capitalist, Palestinian liberation, and anti-imperialist movements, including No One is Illegal and Women’s Memorial March Committee. She is formally trained in law, works with women in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, and is the author of Undoing Border Imperialism (2013).