Temporary Foreign Workers

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Temporary foreign workers have a unique identity within society, labeled as strangers they are perceived as a distant individual within a cultural identity. Understanding the barriers that face temporary foreign workers is significant to conceptualizing the ways in which acceptance into culture is limited. Comprehension of these limitations serves to create knowledge on ways in which strangers exist within a national identity. This research performs an analysis on the barriers faced by temporary foreign workers when adopting to a new setting. The integration of temporary foreign workers is important to cultural awareness and serves a role as society progresses to eliminate barriers for new residents. By using the concept of the stranger proposed …show more content…

Barnes’ (2013) examines the case of Abraham Soto-Lopez, who was killed in a bicycle and car accident in Kingsville-Leamington, Ontario, Canada. In her study it concludes that an accident like this is the result of a lack of social support for temporary foreign workers. Temporary foreign workers are introduced to a new setting, and they may not always be aware of the social norms that are practiced within the host culture. This absence of knowledge can place hazardous on health and security because of the differences between cultures, without understanding of the host populations rules of behaviour, that are often implicit, the workers are sociable to hazards. Additionally, a research on the evaluation of the impact of temporary foreign worker programs in the Canadian market by Sweetman (2010) concluded that there is little support to analyze the contrast between work programs and the volume of immigration. This research supports the lack of framework, in terms of an absence of data to support program and integration development. Fang and MacPhail (2008) further claim, “Temporary employment and its transitions deserve some policy attention giver the general economic insecurity associated with temporary work” (p.71). Due to the nature of the scope, temporary employment should have more governance in terms of …show more content…

The barriers created by conflict can be avoided by adopting training programs and other resources for temporary foreign workers. This issue relates in response to Barnes’ (2013) claim on the absence of framework. Research conducted on the intimacy of women care giver labor condition by Ameeriar (2015) studied the framework developed to “helping foreign-trained nurses get certified in the province of Ontario, Canada” (Ameeriar, 2015, p.467). This study examines the threat of conflict resolution on the workplace for temporary forgiven workers. It’s significant to understand the types of conflict faced when analyzing the barriers they face. The interactions in this study are primarily between the care givers who are temporary foreign workers, and patients who are of host culture. As outsiders temporary foreign workers are not taught the values and norms that Canadian patients would expect in a care setting, therefore must learn these values. Culture conflict arises in settings where the values, norms and expectations of the dominant culture are not met, because of dominate culture they are expected to abide to their imposed standards. Ameeriar (2012) claims “that classes for foreign professionals do not involve antiracism training but rather training in how to make oneself into someone who will not be discriminated against.” (as cited in Ameeriar, 2015, p.470). This is a barrier because in order to integrate into the

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