Workshop Program
Migration, Work and Citizenship: Toward Decent Work and Secure Citizenship
York University – Oct. 1-3, 2009
International Conference Center, 5th Floor, York Research Tower
Thursday, October 1, 2009
9:15- 9:45
Opening Comments
10:00 – 12:00 Panel 1
12:00 – 1:00
Legal and Institutional
Insecurities - Migration,
Work, and Citizenship
 Annette Bernhardt, (NELP) “ An Introduction to the “Gloves-off” Economy”
 Abigail Bakan, (Queen's University) “Negotiating Citizenship in the Context of Systemic
Discrimination”
 Oscar Chacón, (NALACC, Chicago) “Migrant communities as a challenge to citizenship
and the meaning of rights”
Moderator: Patricia Landolt (U of Toronto)
LUNCH
1:00 – 3:00
Panel 2
Work & Citizenship I
3:15 – 5:15
Panel 3
Work & Citizenship II
6:00
Lorna Wright (York), Valerie Preston (York), Eduardo Canel (York), Raúl Delgado Wise (INDM),
Luin Goldring (York)
Reception (on campus)
 Cynthia Wright, (York University), “Locating Histories of Migrant Justice Movements:
What Academics Can Learn from Organizers and (Maybe) Vice Versa”
 Nik Theodore (University of Illinois), “Closed Borders, Open Markets: Immigrant Day
Laborers in the United States”
 Sonia McKay (London Metropolitan University), “Legal Frameworks Regulating the
Employment of Refugees and Recent Migrants”
Mod: Raul Delgado (University of Zacatecas)
 Charles Woolfson (REMESO, Linköping University), “Indecent Work and Insecure
Citizenship: Exploring the failed trajectory neo-liberal post-communism in terms of
‘exit’, ‘voice’ and ‘loyalty’”
 Luin Goldring (York) and Patricia Landolt (University of Toronto), “Precarious Work
and Precarious Status: Latin American and Caribbean Workers in the GTA"
 Harald Bauder (Ryerson University), "Migration, Citizenship and the Regulation of
Labour Markets."
Mod: Mark Thomas (York University)
Friday, October 2, 2009
9:30-12:00
Panel 4
12:00 – 1:00
LUNCH
1:00-3:00
Panel 5
3:15-5:15
Panel 6
 Maria Cook (Cornell University) “The new normal: illegality, detention, exclusion”
 Leah F.Vosko (York) “From Precarious Employment to ‘Decent Work’: The Challenge
Normalizing Exclusion:
of SER-Centric Regulatory Regimes”
Borders, Employment
 Delphine Nakache (University of Ottawa), “The legal status of temporary migrants
Standards and the
admittted to Canada under the Temporary Foreign Worker Program: opportunities for
Classification of Workers
citizenship”
Mod: Viviana Patroni (York University)
 Jennifer J. Chun – (UBC), "The Symbolic Leverage of the Margins: Organizing Women
Workers in South Korea"
 Tanya Basok (University of Windsor), “Migrant Rights Movements as the Mobilization
Mobilizing to Redefine
of a Counter-Hegemonic Rights Discourse”
Citizenship Rights
 Hyun Ok Park (York University), “Between Refugee and Labor: North Koreans in
China”
Mod: Alan Simmons (York University)
 Stan Raper (UFCW), “Organizing Temporary Migrant Workers: Lessons form a Union
Perspective”
Organizing Precarious
 Francisco Villegas and Paloma Villegas (OISE), “Precarious Status and the
Workers & Reorganizing
Reorganization of Public Services in Toronto—the case of health & public education”
Social Citizenship
 Maya Buhllar, (SIEU) “Strategies for organizing precarious workers: Justice for Janitors
and Homecare”
Mod: Oscar Chacón, (NALACC, Chicago)
Saturday, October 3, 2009
9:30-11:30
11:45 – 1:00
Panel 7
Temporary Foreign
Workers: The First and
Last(?) Stand on Work
and Citizenship
Panel 8
Discussion:
 The future of citizenship
and rights in the context
of temporary migration
 Moving forward
 Jenna Hennebry (Wilfred Laurier) and Kerry Preibisch (University of Guelph),
“Permanent Precarity: Temporary Agricultural Migrants in Ontario”
 Salimah Valiani (Carleton), “Pathway to Nowhere: Challenging the Presumption of
Permanent Residency of the Live-in Caregiver Programme”
 Alan Simmons (York University), “Trends in Canadian Foreign Worker Programs: An
Analysis of Neo-Liberal Nation Building.”
Mod: Luin Goldring (York University)
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Good Jobs For All Coalition, TBC
Sima Zeheri (UFCW)
Raúl Delgado (RIMD)
Luin Goldring (York)
1:00 – 2:30
LUNCH