ABSTRACT Taking the new Canadian legislation on migrant domestic workers as an illustration, this article suggests that framing temporary migrant work programs in a discourse of economic labor markets has a dehumanizing effect and tends to obscure both the reality experienced by the workers (within and beyond the workplace) and the forces at play in the creation of these experiences. Ultimately, such a discourse can even serve to justify regulatory frameworks that violates workers’ basic human rights and maintain global inequalities. Building on the concepts of informality, unfree labor relations and precarious work, we suggest that a rehumanization process built around the workers dignity is necessary, in order to fully recognize the responsibility of governments in the construction of migrant domestic workers’ unfreedom and thus bring to light the illegality of these types of regulatory frameworks. In the end, respecting temporary migrant workers’ dignity should translate into an institutional change where these workers not only get to participate in the law-making processes, but also in the very framing and shaping mechanisms of these institutions.

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当政府创造自由时：使移民家庭工人重新人性化

摘要以加拿大关于移民家庭佣工的新立法为例，该文章建议将临时移民工作计划框架化为经济劳动力市场话语会产生非人道的影响，并且往往掩盖了工人所经历的现实（内部和外部）。工作场所）以及在创造这些体验中发挥的作用。最终，这种论述甚至可以为证明违反工人基本人权并维持全球不平等现象的监管框架辩护。我们建议以非正式性，不自由的劳资关系和不稳定的工作为基础，我们有必要围绕工人的尊严进行重新人性化进程，为了充分认识到政府在建设移徙家庭佣工的自由方面的责任，从而揭露这类监管框架的非法性。最后，尊重临时工的尊严应转化为制度上的变化，使这些工人不仅可以参与立法程序，而且可以参与这些机构的框架和塑造机制。