The recruitment of Guatemalan agricultural workers by Canadian employers: mapping the web of a transnational network
Bibliographic record
Abstract
For the past two decades, the number of immigrants admitted to Canada has remained relatively stable while the number of workers admitted with a temporary work permit has steadily increased. This phenomenon is explained by a shift of the Canadian public policies that foresees the management of labour migration. Given their foreignness, the conditions through which temporary foreign workers are employed are a result of the 'dialogue' between labour law and the rules issued by immigration law. Different tensions stem from the coexistence of these two regulatory sets which do not ensure the same functions, are not aimed at the same purpose and are not developed nor implemented by the same actors. This paper will expose the results of a field study conducted between 2012 and 2013. Our research allowed us to better understand the context in which Guatemalan seasonal agricultural workers hired via the agricultural stream of the Canadian temporary foreign workers program are recruited. This research also sheds light on the complex and highly ramified transnational network that allow these workers to be hired by employers in Canada and which exercises a definite influence on the parties to the employment contract.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".