Camouflaging the Temporization and Vulnerability of Migrant Workers: Labour Market Distortions by Statute in Times of Crisis
June 14, 2023 | 12:00PM - 2:00PM
This event takes place in-person in Room 108N, 1 Devonshire Place, Toronto.
"Two global crises have affected the entire humanity in recent times – the “man-made” financial crisis of 2007-2009 and the coronavirus pandemic COVID-19 of 2019-22 caused by the so- called “act of God”! Both these crises led to statutory distortions of the market forces for immigrant labour – both knowledge workers (the highly educated/skilled) and service workers (the low-skilled/manual workers). They helped governments to cover up temporization of immigrant workers and forced employers to become more selective in offering employment. Driven by the hearsay that immigrant knowledge workers displaced the native-born out of employment and/or led to a curtailment in their wages and incomes, these tendencies were already there for some time, but what we experienced is that camouflaging of restrictive policy barriers became more intense during and after the two crises."
- Binod Khadria
Join us as Binod Khadria discusses this complex, pervasive, and important issue.
About the Speaker:
Binod Khadria is presently a Visiting CERC Scholar of Excellence at Toronto Metropolitan University. A former Professor of Economics, Education and Int’l Migration, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, he is the elected President of the Global Research Forum on Diaspora and Transnationalism (GRFDT), a global think tank on migration issues. His recent publications include the co-edited World Migration Report, 2020 (IOM), the co-guest edited special issue of Asian and Pacific Migration Journal (APMJ), Dec 2022, and several scholarly articles. Recently, he has been appointed an Affiliated Fellow of ISIM at Georgetown University.
Sponsored by the Centre for Euopean, Russian, and Eurasian Studies and the Global Migration Lab