Live In Caregiver Case Study

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The Live-In Caregiver Program of Canada Canada’s Live-In Caregiver Program offers foreign caregivers the opportunity to work and live in Canada. The program’s intent is to encourage immigration while simultaneously addressing caregiver shortages. However, working and live-in conditions are not ideal. The majority of people applying for the LCP are women of color, who come from lower income/source countries, like the Philippines. These women are often marginalized because of their vulnerable status. Despite providing employment opportunities, the LCP is an inherently discriminatory immigration policy that threatens the status and wellbeing of migrant women, working as domestics in Canada.
Migrant domestic workers in Canada have typically …show more content…

Since they have already proven their ability to work and live in Canada, live-in caregivers have their applications almost automatically approved. For migrant women, this eventual acceptance as a permanent resident constitutes the main appeal of the LCP. (Oxman-Martinez, Hanley, & Cheung 5)
The LCP is an ideal program for many migrant women because it permits them to enter into Canada as independent immigrants, without most of the “skills”, education and capital requirements (Oxman-Martinez, Hanley, & Cheung 5). The Live-in caregiver program provides them with one of the very few opportunities to not only live but to work in Canada as well. This may appear to be an attractive feature for those considering employment overseas. However, the LCP comes with two restrictive features: “the live-in requirement and the caregivers’ precarious temporary immigration status” (Santos …show more content…

Push factors may include, poverty, political and/or social justice issues in a person’s home country. Pull factors tend to be ideal economic and employment factors that attract migrants, usually coming from developing nations to Western countries such as Canada. Temporary foreign workers programs, such as SAWP and LCP, allow many of these individuals, seeking a better life, to find employment overseas. The LCP, however, is part of a very informal migration system (Reed 474). In the Philippines, for example, the system is run by, Filipino communities and private recruitment agencies (Reed 474). These institutions play a key role in influencing decisions and facilitating entry into

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