Abstract/Details

Legitimizing disentitlements? Employer perceptions of foreign domestic workers in the live-in caregiver program

Winter, Kelly Lynn.   University of Guelph (Canada) ProQuest Dissertations & Theses,  2006. MR14609.

Abstract (summary)

This study investigates the gate-keeping role of Canadian employers of foreign domestic migrant workers in the Live-in Caregiver Program and the practice of exclusionary citizenship for migrant workers in Canada. By identifying employer attitudes and perceptions of their workers and their rights, this study aims to expose the ideological and institutional processes of Canada's migrant worker policies that legitimize the migrant worker as the non-citizen "other." Employers were recruited by snowball sampling techniques that resulted in 14 semi-structured, in-depth interviews. Interviews revealed employer perceptions of their nanny/housekeeper and their set of rights and suggest that employers hold racialized and gendered stereotypes of their caregiver. Furthermore, citizen employers justified employee disentitlements by the non-citizenship status of their caregiver. This research contributes to the existing literature on the citizenship rights of temporary workers in Canada by examining foreign domestic workers' lack of entitlements, through the employer perceptions and their critical gate-keeping position that significantly affect foreign caregiver citizenship.

Indexing (details)


Subject
Minority & ethnic groups;
Sociology;
Ethnic studies
Classification
0631: Ethnic studies
Identifier / keyword
Social sciences
Title
Legitimizing disentitlements? Employer perceptions of foreign domestic workers in the live-in caregiver program
Author
Winter, Kelly Lynn
Number of pages
204
Degree date
2006
School code
0081
Source
MAI 44/06M, Masters Abstracts International
ISBN
978-0-494-14609-5
University/institution
University of Guelph (Canada)
University location
Canada -- Ontario, CA
Degree
M.A.
Source type
Dissertation or Thesis
Language
English
Document type
Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number
MR14609
ProQuest document ID
305339654
Copyright
Database copyright ProQuest LLC; ProQuest does not claim copyright in the individual underlying works.
Document URL
https://www.proquest.com/docview/305339654