TY - JOUR
T1 - “I feel like I’m just nowhere”
T2 - Causes and Challenges of Status Loss in Canada
AU - Tulli, Mia
AU - Salami, Bukola
AU - Juen, Jessica
AU - Foster, Jason
AU - Vallianatos, Helen
AU - Okeke-Ihejirika, Philomina
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature B.V.
PY - 2023/3
Y1 - 2023/3
N2 - In this qualitative study, researchers conducted interviews with 11 participants who had entered Canada through the Temporary Foreign Worker Program and who had since loss status. To understand the lived experiences of participants, this article deploys a theoretical framework of transnationalism centring the concept of precarious status. Findings show policy changes, abuse and exploitation by employers, language barriers, and misinformation and language gaps drive workers out of status. Once without status, people often remain in Canada because they are motivated by issues related to family. These can include the continued desire to bring family members to Canada, financial responsibilities for family members in countries of origin, the desire to stay with Canadian partners or children, or the breakdown of family ties which dissuades the desire to return. Challenges of living without status include mental health struggles, financial strain, and barriers to service access. Interplays between factors driving status loss and experiences of those who live without status in Canada show that the state plays an important role in creating precarity through restrictive immigration and residency policies. Understandings the state’s role in the production of precarity may inform effective policy changes moving forward.
AB - In this qualitative study, researchers conducted interviews with 11 participants who had entered Canada through the Temporary Foreign Worker Program and who had since loss status. To understand the lived experiences of participants, this article deploys a theoretical framework of transnationalism centring the concept of precarious status. Findings show policy changes, abuse and exploitation by employers, language barriers, and misinformation and language gaps drive workers out of status. Once without status, people often remain in Canada because they are motivated by issues related to family. These can include the continued desire to bring family members to Canada, financial responsibilities for family members in countries of origin, the desire to stay with Canadian partners or children, or the breakdown of family ties which dissuades the desire to return. Challenges of living without status include mental health struggles, financial strain, and barriers to service access. Interplays between factors driving status loss and experiences of those who live without status in Canada show that the state plays an important role in creating precarity through restrictive immigration and residency policies. Understandings the state’s role in the production of precarity may inform effective policy changes moving forward.
KW - Migration
KW - Precarity
KW - Status loss
KW - Transnationalism
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85124269102&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s12134-022-00940-7
DO - 10.1007/s12134-022-00940-7
M3 - Journal Article
AN - SCOPUS:85124269102
SN - 1488-3473
VL - 24
SP - 139
EP - 161
JO - Journal of International Migration and Integration
JF - Journal of International Migration and Integration
IS - 1
ER -