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  title info:
    title: Filipino migrants and the Canadian dream
    sub title: governing mobility in a fast-food chain
  name:
    name part: Polanco, Geraldina
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: onc
    date issued: 2025
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource.
  abstract: "Filipino Migrants and the Canadian Dream explores the power of the Canadian dream and how this social imaginary is leveraged by various institutional actors across transnational networks to govern mobility and work in the bottom tiers of a globalized labour market. The book focuses specifically on the migration management and governance of skilled Filipino workers recruited for entry-level fast-food positions in Western Canada. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in both Western Canada and the Philippines, the book examines how migration institutions and social actors shape migrant aspirations, constructing cultural narratives of nations that influence people's decisions to migrate. Using Tim Hortons - a beloved Canadian institution - as a case study, the book illustrates how the Canadian dream and its implied promises are harnessed (inadvertently) at different stages of the migration process to propel mobility or fulfil profit-driven goals. The analysis highlights how a range of actors - states, corporations, employers, recruiters, diaspora communities, and migrants themselves - contribute to the creation and circulation of these dreams. Ultimately, the book demonstrates that the social imaginary must be unpacked across global circuits, spaces, and scales to fully understand how temporary labour programs operate within the context of a neoliberal economy."--
  table of contents: The Institutions and Governance of Labour Migration -- Tim Hortons and the Low-Skilled Stream -- Beguiling and Brokering the "Great Filipino Worker" -- Migrant Dreams and the Colonial Mentality -- Harnessing Dreams to Manufacture Consent -- The Institutional Resilience of National Dreams -- A Global Infrastructure of Migrant Dreams -- Reimagining a World Beyond Labour Migration.
  note: Geraldina Polanco.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-cn---
  subject:
    topic: Fast food restaurants
    geographic: Canada
    topic: Employees
  subject:
    topic: Filipinos
    topic: Employment
    geographic: Canada
  subject:
    topic: Foreign workers
    geographic: Canada
  subject:
    topic: Immigrants
    geographic: Canada
    topic: Economic conditions
  subject:
    topic: Philippins
    topic: Travail
    geographic: Canada
  subject:
    topic: Restaurants-minute
    geographic: Canada
    topic: Personnel
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE
  classification: HD8039.H82 C3 2025
  classification: 331.7/616479571
  classification: cci1icc
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    title info:
      title: Filipino migrants and the Canadian dream
    name:
      name part: Polanco, Geraldina.
    origin info:
      publisher: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2025
    identifier: (OCoLC)1492841334
  identifier: 9781487516314 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 9781487516321
  identifier: 1487516312
  identifier: 1487516320
  identifier: 9781487502935
  identifier: 9781487522209
  identifier: a38qmgg9 cloudLibrary
  location:
    physical location: POD
  record info:
    record content source: NLC
    record creation date: 250620
    record change date: 20260131175848.2
    record identifier: in00005678304
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng