Prof. Delphine Nakache's top picks: What to read, watch and listen to

As part of our Speaker Series, Prof. Delphine Nakache offers three recommendations in connection with her upcoming talk, “The Regularization Maze: How Canada’s Temporary Migration System Manufactures Precarity,” on Monday, February 2.

Producing and negotiating non-citizenship: Precarious legal status in Canada

Luin Goldring and Patricia Landolt

Most studies of non-citizenship in Canada focus on immigrants or temporary workers on a path to citizenship. Producing and Negotiating Non-Citizenship instead examines people whose access to citizenship is uncertain or absent, including migrant workers, students, refugee claimants, and those with expired permits.

Through theoretically grounded empirical research, the volume explores how precarious non-citizen status is produced and experienced in Canada, historically and today, highlighting everyday realities shaped by policy, institutions, and migrant practices.

Migrant Dreams (2016)

Documentary • 88min

Director Min Sook Lee’s award-winning documentary follows the story of migrant workers who come to labour in Ontario greenhouses as part of Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program. Many are women recruited by brokers who illegally charge fees upwards of $7,000, with greenhouse owners complicit in the scam. The film examines the lives of a group of strong, vibrant migrant women who resist systemic oppression and exploitation.

Watch the documentary