The making of the ‘precarious’: examining Indian immigrant IT workers in Canada and their transnational networks with body shops in India

Since the 1980s, allied practices of market deregulations, transnational flows of capital, freeing of international trade policies and labour market flexibility have led to an increased mobility of labour around the world. Such changing economic conditions coupled with developments in communication, technology and Information Technology (IT) Enabled Services have spawned the global demand for a well-educated, professional and ‘skilled workforce’ (Li 2008, 11). New opportunities have enabled these workers to circulate around the world in search of ‘competitive market prices for their labour’ (Li 2008, 20).