Manuel Salamanca Cardona

Manuel Salamanca Cardona
McGill University | McGill · Department of Integrated Studies in Education (DISE)

PhD in Education

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This article describes the labour conditions of asylum seekers and other precarious migrant workers before and during the pandemic. Although this group’s labour conditions were already precarious prior to the pandemic, we show how those conditions worsened during the COVID crisis because of their racialized condition and precarious migratory status...
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Prompted by economic uncertainties, socio-political instabilities, wars, persecutions or environmental changes, migrants seek refuge, safety and hope via perilous routes and journeys. Beyond responses to crises there is an important aspect of migration, especially in a long-term perspective, that requires sustainable, long-lasting solutions: the so...
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Private, for-profit recruitment and employment agencies are key intermediaries connecting migrant workers from abroad to employers in Canada. Despite this, there is a lack of effective regulation of recruitment agencies by the Canadian federal and provincial governments. The objective of this article is to provide a snapshot of the problem, based o...
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This chapter addresses learning and nonformal education in the course of organizing migrant and immigrant (im/migrant) temporary agency workers through the Immigrant Workers Centre (IWC) and the Temporary Agency Workers Association (TAWA) in Montreal. The IWC/TAWA organizing approach with agency workers is based on community organizing, activist kn...
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L’éducation populaire et la recherche engagée en tant que mécanismes de production de connaissances ne sont pas de nouvelles stratégies des mouvements sociaux et ouvriers. Leur importance est souvent oubliée et sous-évaluée en sociologie, et dans les théories politiques des mouvements sociaux. L’articlesouligne l’importance d’aborder l’éducation po...
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Cet article explore le rôle des agences d’emploi temporaire à Montréal dans l’exploitation de la main-d’oeuvre immigrante et la relation de ces agences avec le racisme systémique au Québec. L’hypothèse qui guide cet article est que la dérégulation des agences et les vulnérabilités produites par les statuts migratoires des travailleurs sont des fact...
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Access to transportation has long been recognized as key to people’s employment outcomes. Being able to get to work affordably, safely and on time makes all the difference in terms of job security and satisfaction. Recently, the rise of temporary placement agencies, especially as a gateway into the labour market for many newcomers to Canada, raises...
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In this document we describe our experience relocating precarity and resiliency by way of arts activism, to denounce and make visible social injustices experienced by im/migrant communities in Montreal. Under the umbrella of the Immigrant Workers’ Centre, and other allies from the im/migrant workers’ movement, we combine knowledge building, action...

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