Patricia Landolt

• University of Toronto

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...

‘Mechanisms of Migrant Exclusion’ focuses on the exclusionary measures that migrant workers confront. Although migration studies have long attended to various social and structural systems of exclusion, for instance, xenophobia and nativism (De Genova, 2005, https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822387091; Golash‐Boza, 2011, https://doi.org/10.4324/978020312...

We develop a framework for understanding noncitizenship that combines attention to systemic processes with interest in contingency and indeterminacy in the production and substantive practices associated with noncitizen legal status categories and trajectories. We argue that noncitizenship is a dynamic, multi-scalar assemblage that brings together...

Most examinations of non-citizens in Canada focus on immigrants, people who are citizens-in-waiting, or specific categories of temporary, vulnerable workers. In contrast, Producing and Negotiating Non-Citizenship considers a range of people whose pathway to citizenship is uncertain or non-existent. This includes migrant workers, students, refugee c...

The incorporation of immigrants into Canadian economic life is a complex process with longterm consequences for immigrant workers, their families and Canadian society as a whole. This study calls for a reframing of the study of immigrant economic incorporation to pay closer attention to the relationship between migration status, legal status trajec...

This chapter contributes to comparative research on migration and incorporation. It offers a reconceptualization of analytical categories of research in Toronto into migrants from four Latin American countries whose migration is characterized as forced. The authors’ initial research challenged assumptions about particular populations, similar conte...

The authors identify and analyze patterns of community organizing among Latin Americans in Toronto for the period from the 1970s to the 2000s as part of a broader analysis of Latin American immigrant politics. They draw on the concept of social fields to map Latin American community politics and to capture a wide range of relevant organizations, ev...

This article explores the relationship between precarious employment and precarious migrant legal status. Original research on immigrant workers' employment experiences in Toronto examines the effects of several measures including human capital, network, labor market variables, and a change in legal status variable on job precarity as measured by a...

We offer an institutional analysis of Chilean and Colombian transnational politics in Toronto to account for cross-group variation in transnational political practices and the formation of different types of transnational social fields of political action. The article is based on interviews conducted with Chilean and Colombian community activists a...

This introductory article defines the concept of transnationalism, provides a typology of this heterogeneous set of activities, and reviews some of the pitfalls in establishing and validating the topic as a novel research field. A set of guidelines to orient research in this field is presented and justified. Instances of immigrant political and eco...

We present a longitudinal map of three overlapping organizational trajectories developed by Latin American immigrants in the city of Toronto. We propose the concept of bridging and boundary work to specify how new (1) intersectional political identities and organizational agendas are constituted by Latin American feminist women and artists in the i...

Complex factors associated with migration and immigration policies contribute to the dispersion of families across space. We draw on interviews with 40 Latin American women in Toronto who experienced separation from children as a result of migration and argue that Canadian immigration policy and elements of the women’s context of departure lead to...

Precarious jobs are bad jobs. They are unstable and insecure, offer limited rights, protections, and benefits to workers. They allow workers little control over their schedules and hours, and give them little say in decisions on how work will be done. • The Index of Precarious Work (IPW) is a powerful measurement tool for research and policy work....

Precarious work refers to work that: • Is unstable and insecure • Offers limited rights, protections, and benefits to workers • Allows workers little control over their schedules • Gives workers little say in decisions on how work will be done. Precarious work has several dimensions. It gives employers flexibility but takes stable and secure work a...

In Brief Three, we look at the strategies that immigrants use to improve their work experiences and reduce the precariousness of their jobs. We also consider whether such strategies can help to reduce poverty. We build on what we learned in Brief Two in which we studied some of the causes of precarious employment, as measured by the Index of Precar...

Who is more likely to have a precarious job? We have used our Immigrants and Precarious Work Survey to identify some of the causes of precarious work. The Survey looked at work experiences during a newcomer's first year in Canada and in 2005, the year of the survey. The Index of Precarious Work (IPW) pulls together a complex set of factors to asses...

Greater global interconnectedness produces a transformation in the ways in which groups constitute and interpret the boundaries of community formation and political practice. This article considers the ways in which a group engages (or not) with the possibilities for transnational identity formation and border-crossing politics granted by the chang...

Transnational migration is a globalizing process that contributes to the destabilization of the historically contingent but by now naturalized isomorphism between the nation, the state, and a clearly bounded political community of citizens. Three interrelated social processes are connected to the spatial rupturing and reorganization of the location...

Please see published version in Global Networks, 2010

This article draws on the insights of research on transnational migration to reconsider the process of identity formation among children of immigrants and the patterns of acculturation associated with different trajectories of segmented assimilation. Extending the research on segmented assimilation and identity formation among children of immigrant...

This study draws insights from scholarship on immigrant families and transnational migration to examine the multi-local transnational family practices of Salvadoran refugee-migrants in the US and middle-class emigrants from the People’s Republic of China (PRC) to Australia. We compare the contexts of exit and reception and state-migrant relations t...

Im Laufe des letzten Jahrzehnts hat die Kategorie des sozialen Kapitals an Gewicht gewonnen — zum einen durch die früheren Arbeiten von James Coleman (1988) und Pierre Bourdieu (1986) und zum anderen aktuell durch die populären Veröffentlichungen von Robert Putnam (1993a; 1993b; 1995) und Francis Fukuyama (1995). Im Folgenden setze ich mich mit zwe...

List of Tables List of Figures Notes on the Contributors Preface Globalisation and the New City M.Cross & R.Moore Migrants and the Urban Labour Market in Europe and North America M.Cross & R.Waldinger Cutting the Ghetto: Political Censorship and Conceptual Retrenchment in the American Debate on Urban Destitution L.Wacquant Terms of Entry: Social In...

This article presents a case study of the transnational economic practices linking two Salvadoran settlements in the United States and El Salvador. It considers the relationship between economic transnationalism, immigrant settlement and economic development in the country of origin. Four processes are examined including: (1) the creation of border...

The purpose of this commentary is threefold. First, to review the origins and definitions of the concept of social capital as it has developed in the recent literature. Second, to examine the limitations of this concept when interpreted as a causal force able to transform communities and nations. Third, to present several relevant examples from the...

Thesis (Ph. D.)--John Hopkins University, 2000. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 293-305). Photocopy.

This introductory article de nes the concept of transnationalism, provides a typology of this heterogeneous set of activities, and reviews some of the pitfalls in establishing and validating the topic as a novel research eld. A set of guidelines to orient research in this eld is presented and justi ed. Instances of immigrant political and economic...

A dialectical framework is proposed for analysing the economic and political practices associated with immigrant transnationalism. The causes and consequences of the transnational relations sustained by Salvadoran migrants in Los Angeles and Washington, DC, with El Salvador is used to test this proposition. It is argued that the conditions of Salva...

The Urban Caribbean studies urbanization in five countries-Costa Rica, Haiti, Guatemala, the Dominican Republic, and Jamaica-during the 1980s and 1990s when the region's economy shifted from one heavily dependent on imports to one directed more to producing exports. This shift caused producers and entrepreneurs to rely more on microenterprises, thu...

Our study draws insights from scholarship on immigrant families and transnational migration to examine the multi-local transnational family practices of Salvadoran refugee-migrants in the United States and middle class emigrants from the People's Republic of China (PRC) to Australia. We examine the contexts of exit and reception and state-migrant r...