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AbstractIn capitalist societies, workers feel, or feel obliged to feel grateful for having a job. In a world marked by global inequality, migrants from the global South to the North are expected to feel gratitude for their opportunity to move to and live in a first world country. In the case of temporary foreign workers, both these sorts of gratitude come together. The political economy regime governing the conditions of work and cross‐border movement for temporary foreign workers employed in health care in Canada engenders feelings of gratefulness from workers towards their employers. Contextualized within a cross‐disciplinary study of gratitude as a social construct, this article uses the case of this particular sort of work and migration gratitude to develop knowledge on the nuanced and complex ways in which structures of feeling lead from and loop back into capitalist political economies.

My research explores the labour conditions experienced by foreign nurses employed in health care in the province of Nova Scotia, Canada, on temporary permits. I draw on ethnographic interviews to understand the nuanced ways in which foreign nurses feel welcomed in their local communities and workplaces, yet simultaneously remain subject to hostile racialized scrutiny. Nova Scotia is one of the least ethnically diverse provinces in Canada and one of the most economically impoverished. It faces a shortage of healthcare workers, exacerbated by the ongoing restructuring of the healthcare sector. These contextual factors contribute to the complicated push-pull matrix discussed by the temporary foreign nurses, who feel needed, but not wanted. This matrix cannot be dismissed as simply the racism and "backwardness" of local communities. Rather, it must be understood through a political economy focus on temporary foreign workers, restructured health care, and the normalization of a precarious labour landscape in which racialized foreign and local workers are pitted against each other.

Mes travaux de recherche portent sur les conditions de travail subies par les infirmiers et les infirmières étrangers de permis temporaire employés dans les soins de santé dans la province de la Nouvelle-Écosse, Canada. Je m'appuie sur des entretiens ethnographiques afin de saisir les façons nuancées dont les infirmiers étrangers se sentent bien accueillis dans leurs collectivités, et en même temps font encore l'objet d'un contrôle racialisé hostile. La Nouvelle-Écosse est l'une des provinces les moins diversifiées sur le plan ethnique au Canada, ainsi que l'une des provinces les plus économiquement démunies. Elle est en outre aux prises avec une pénurie de travailleurs de la santé, aggravée par la restructuration en cours dans le secteur de la santé. Ces facteurs contextuels contribuent à la matrice complexe du « pousser/tirer » examinée par les infirmiers étrangers temporaires qui se sentent nécessaires, mais non désirés. On ne peut écarter cette matrice comme s'il s'agissait simplement du racisme et du « retard » des collectivités locales. Elle doit plutôt être comprise en mettant l'accent à caractère de l'économie politique sur les travailleurs étrangers temporaires, les soins de santé restructurés, et la normalisation d'un marché du travail précaire dans lequel les travailleurs racialisés, étrangers et domestiques, sont dressés les uns contre les autres.

This article presents a qualitative study of the experiences of a sample of Afghan refugees who have settled in Canada. Using Anthony Giddens's concepts of structure and agency, the author analyzes interview data to explore how the respondents express their agency within the structural constraints of refugee life. In light of the research findings, it is argued that Afghan refugees form a diverse and heterogeneous population, in stark contrast to the essentialized and homogenous portrayals of silent, suffering victims of circumstance as found in popular media and policy discourse. ; Cet article présente une étude qualitative des expériences d'un échantillon de réfugiés afghans qui se sont installés au Canada. En utilisant les concepts de structure et d'agentivité d'Anthony Giddens, l'auteur analyse les données de l'entrevue afin d'explorer la façon dont les répondants expriment leur entremise dans les contraintes structurelles de la vie de réfugié. À la lumière des résultats de la recherche, on soutient que les réfugiés afghans forment une population diverse et hétérogène, en contraste avec les représentations essentialisées et homogènes d'eux comme muettes et soumises victimes des circonstances que l'on trouve dans les médias populaires et le discours politique.

Knowledge of the integration process for refugees is often subsumed under the broader category of "immigrants". This book focuses on this process for refugees, including the structural and systemic challenges they face as they integrate in their new host societies, and how they respond to such challenges. The book provides a critical analysis of Canada's approach to integrating refugees with additional chapters focused on refugee integration in Australia, Northern Ireland, and the United States.This collection of work critically addresses a range of topics and employs a variety of qualitative approaches to gain a better understanding of the lived experience of integration for refugees, including the ways in which refugees view integration and the attendant challenges and opportunities encountered during the integration process. Departing from viewing refugees as a "burden" that must be shared by the international community, the contributors to this collection explore the complex dynamics of race, class, gender, ethnicity, age, generation and legal status for refugees in a selection of local contexts of reception. The work begins a dialogue about the long-term dynamics of refugee settlement and integration with implications for the viability of future resettlement programs and practices. How the world responds to the ongoing plight of the growing numbers of displaced people will be a defining feature of the contemporary global order. This collection shifts the discourse about refugees from one of victimhood to one of refugee agency and rights. The book will be of primary interest to academics in the field of refugee and migration studies, to practitioners in the settlement sector, and to those involved in making refugee policies. It will also be useful for those who work in social services and education in countries of the global north that