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- Title
Parsing the mobilities of capital and labour: The case of Tim Hortons and internationally mobile Filipino workers.
- Authors
Bryan, Catherine; Barber, Pauline Gardiner
- Abstract
In 2007, Canada expanded the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) to include service and hospitality sectors. By 2010, more migrants entered Canada with temporary visas than as permanent residents. While some found employment in hospitality and tourism, most were concentrated in the fast food sector. Working transnationally, this paper uses Tim Hortons' concurrent global expansion and its arrival in the Philippines as a case study of the global mobilities and intersecting pathways of capital and labour. Drawing on the theoretical contributions of feminist political economy, it illustrates how the aspirations and mobilities of the Filipino workers at the centre of this study are organized in the service of capital; capital, in this example, as represented by the globally ambitious Tim Hortons' parent corporation, Restaurant Brands International (RBI) and, more specifically, the Brazilian American global investment firm that owns and manages RBI, 3G Capital, as well as by the efforts and objectives of franchise holders.
- Subjects
CANADA; TIM Hortons Inc.; FILIPINOS; PARENT companies; GREEN cards; FOREIGN workers; TEMPORARY employees; SERVICE industries
- Publication
International Migration, 2021, Vol 59, Issue 2, p72
- ISSN
0020-7985
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/imig.12826