The Making of the "Precarious" Examining Indian Immigrant IT Workers in Canada and Their Transnational Networks with Body Shops in India

Autor/in	Maitra, Srabani
Titel	The Making of the "Precarious" Examining Indian Immigrant IT Workers in Canada and Their Transnational Networks with Body Shops in India
Quelle	In: Globalisation, Societies and Education, 13 (2015) 2, S.194-209 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1476-7724
DOI	10.1080/14767724.2014.934070
Schlagwörter	Indians; Immigrants; Information Technology; Foreign Nationals; Employment; Skilled Workers; Barriers; Gender Differences; Racial Differences; Labor Force; Flexible Scheduling; Temporary Employment; Role; Foreign Countries; Networks; Lifelong Learning; Qualitative Research; Semi Structured Interviews; Canada + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Inder; Immigrant; Immigrantin; Immigranten; Informationstechnologie; Ausländer; Ausländerin; Dienstverhältnis; Facharbeiter; Geschlechterkonflikt; Rassenunterschied; Labour force; Arbeitskraft; Erwerbsbevölkerung; Flexible working hours; Flexible Arbeitszeit; Zeitarbeit; Rollen; Ausland; Life-long learning; Lebenslanges Lernen; Qualitative Forschung; Kanada
Abstract	Since the 1990s, temporary staffing agencies have been playing a key role in managing and supplying a ready pool of skilled workers to the global IT market. Yet, such agencies often regulate their workforce to maintain flexible, low-cost and accommodating workers. Due to continuing racial and gendered barriers, many immigrant Indian IT professionals living in Canada are increasingly depending on many such India-based staffing agencies (body shops) to get into IT employment globally. Such associations I argue are turning the workers into a self-regulated and precarious workforce subjected to severe regulations and flexible work patterns of the agencies. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01