On Thursday April 9, 2015, Bethany Hastie gave a public lecture titled “Temporary Labour/Permanent Exclusion: The Entrenched Inequality of Migrant Work in Canada and the EU” at Carleton University’s Senate Room.
Hastie discussed how Canada and several EU member states have experienced an increased use and expansion of temporary migrant labour programs in recent years, and concomitantly, and the rising controversy over both the use of migrant labourers, and their treatment. She argued that the regulatory regime governing migrant labour, coupled with political and social representations of migrant workers and the labour markets in which they are employed, prohibit their ability to substantively access and enforce these rights, producing entrenched inequality for migrant labourers in Canada and the EU.
Bethany Hastie is a doctoral candidate at the Institute of Comparative Law at McGill University. She holds a SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship and is a former O’Brien Fellow in Human Rights and Legal Pluralism. Her thesis examines Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Programs. She has further published on human trafficking, irregular migration, and refugees.
The Mobility & Politics Lecture Series is organized by Dr. Martin Geiger and co-sponsored and hosted by the Migration & Diaspora Studies (MDS) Initiative, the Centre for European Studies (CES), the Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (EURUS), the Departments of Political Science and Geography, and the Institute of Political Economy at Carleton University.
