Temporary Labour Migration and the "Ceremony of Innocence" of Postwar Labour Law: Confronting "the South of the North". Issue 2 (5th September 2018)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Temporary Labour Migration and the "Ceremony of Innocence" of Postwar Labour Law: Confronting "the South of the North". Issue 2 (5th September 2018)
- Main Title:
- Temporary Labour Migration and the "Ceremony of Innocence" of Postwar Labour Law: Confronting "the South of the North"
- Authors:
- Smith, Adrian A.
- Editors:
- Blackett, Adelle
- Abstract:
- Abstract: The article considers the temporary labour migration program in Canada, which catapults workers from the global South into work and wider relations in the global North, in the context of debates swirling around Anglo-American labour law. There is widespread consensus that labour law is experiencing a sustained moment of crisis in the face of neoliberal globalization. Not widely considered is how this crisis relates to temporary labour migration and the global South-North relationship and, in turn, how this relationship may impact emergent approaches tasked with transforming or transcending the field. Critical interventions seeking to confront the "southern question" within the socio-legal imaginary have gone largely unnoticed by labour law scholars. Transnational labour law may hold potential for an alternative account of the racialized production of unfree migrant labour. But only if its adherents can truly confront the dynamic unfolding through temporary labour migration—that of the "South of the North." Résumé: Cet article examine le programme de migration temporaire de la main-d'œuvre au Canada, qui catapulte les travailleurs du Sud global vers le travail et les relations accrus du Nord global à travers le contexte des débats entourant le droit du travail anglo-américain. Il existe un large consensus quant au fait que le droit du travail traverse, actuellement, une crise soutenue face à la mondialisation néolibérale. Or, peu de considération est accordée à laAbstract: The article considers the temporary labour migration program in Canada, which catapults workers from the global South into work and wider relations in the global North, in the context of debates swirling around Anglo-American labour law. There is widespread consensus that labour law is experiencing a sustained moment of crisis in the face of neoliberal globalization. Not widely considered is how this crisis relates to temporary labour migration and the global South-North relationship and, in turn, how this relationship may impact emergent approaches tasked with transforming or transcending the field. Critical interventions seeking to confront the "southern question" within the socio-legal imaginary have gone largely unnoticed by labour law scholars. Transnational labour law may hold potential for an alternative account of the racialized production of unfree migrant labour. But only if its adherents can truly confront the dynamic unfolding through temporary labour migration—that of the "South of the North." Résumé: Cet article examine le programme de migration temporaire de la main-d'œuvre au Canada, qui catapulte les travailleurs du Sud global vers le travail et les relations accrus du Nord global à travers le contexte des débats entourant le droit du travail anglo-américain. Il existe un large consensus quant au fait que le droit du travail traverse, actuellement, une crise soutenue face à la mondialisation néolibérale. Or, peu de considération est accordée à la façon dont cette crise est liée à la migration temporaire de la main-d'œuvre et à la relation Sud-Nord et comment, à son tour, cette relation peut influer sur les approches émergentes chargées de transformer ou de transcender ce domaine. Les interventions critiques cherchant à confronter la « question du sud » au sein de l'imaginaire sociojuridique s'avèrent, d'ailleurs, un champ d'études peu considéré par les spécialistes du droit du travail. Le droit du travail transnational pourrait présenter le potentiel d'une explication alternative à l'égard de la production racialisée du travail migrant non libre, à condition que ceux qui y adhèrent puissent véritablement s'attaquer à la dynamique se déployant à travers la migration du travail temporaire - celle du «Sud du Nord». … (more)
- Is Part Of:
- Canadian journal of law and society. Volume 33:Issue 2(2018)
- Journal:
- Canadian journal of law and society
- Issue:
- Volume 33:Issue 2(2018)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 33, Issue 2 (2018)
- Year:
- 2018
- Volume:
- 33
- Issue:
- 2
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2018-0033-0002-0000
- Page Start:
- 261
- Page End:
- 277
- Publication Date:
- 2018-09-05
- Subjects:
- Migrant labour, -- Anglo-American labour law, -- global south, -- transnational labour law, -- racialization, -- nation state system
travail, -- migrant, -- droit du travail anglo-américain, -- Sud global, -- droit transnational du travail, -- racialisation, -- système d'État-nation
Sociological jurisprudence -- Periodicals
Law -- Canada -- Periodicals
340.11505 - Journal URLs:
- http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=CLS ↗
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/canadian_journal_of_law_and_society/ ↗
http://www.heinonline.org/HOL/Index?index=journals/cjls&collection=journals ↗
http://www.rcds-cjls.uqam.ca/index%5Fen.htm#a ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1017/cls.2018.18 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 1744-9324
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