TY - JOUR AU - Gottfried et al., Keren PY - 2016/01/07 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Paving Their Way and Earning Their Pay: Economic Survival Experiences of Immigrants in East Toronto JF - Alternate Routes: A Journal of Critical Social Research JA - AR VL - 27 IS - 0 SE - Articles DO - UR - https://alternateroutes.ca/index.php/ar/article/view/22396 SP - AB - <p>This paper lies at the intersection of precarious labour and immigrant<br />employment experiences. The labour market has evolved over the past few<br />decades such that jobs are increasingly precarious - poorly paid, insecure,<br />and lacking in employee protections. Immigrants are overrepresented<br />among those working precarious jobs and face compounded challenges to<br />achieving socio-economic stability. Immigrants, especially immigrant<br />women, experience heightened exploitation and marginalization in the<br />process of trying to economically and socially integrate into Canadian<br />society. The paper investigates how immigrants living in an east Toronto<br />ethnic enclave navigates the labour market and survive precarious and<br />informal employment realities. It makes use of a unique empirical survey<br />of this community to help shed light on the economic lives of this<br />population.</p> ER -