Constructing Latinx and Mexican Migrant Men in Canada: A Scoping Review of Governance, Parliamentary Discourse, and Media Representation

Background Migration governance in Canada operates not only through legislation and policy but also through parliamentary discourse and media representation. Latin American migrant men are central to temporary labour programs and refugee processes in Canada, yet research remains fragmented across migration studies, gender and masculinities scholarship, labour policy, and media analysis. No comprehensive review has examined how governance, masculinity, and representation intersect across legal, political, and media domains in the Canadian context. This scoping review aims to map and synthesize scholarship examining how adult Latin American migrant men in Canada are constructed and governed within legal and policy frameworks, and how they are represented across political discourse, civil society engagement, and media reporting. Methods This scoping review will be conducted in accordance with the JBI methodology for scoping reviews and reported in accordance with the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews. Sources published in English, French, or Spanish from 2002 onwards will be considered. Eligible sources must focus on adult Latin American migrant men aged 18 years and older residing in Canada, including temporary foreign workers, permanent residents, refugees, asylum seekers, and undocumented migrants, and must substantively engage with legal or policy frameworks, parliamentary or political discourse, civil society engagement, or media representation. Multidisciplinary academic databases, parliamentary archives, legal repositories, media databases, and grey literature sources will be systematically searched. Two independent reviewers will conduct title and abstract screening and full-text review, followed by structured data extraction using a standardized tool. Extracted data will be analyzed descriptively and thematically, and findings will be presented in tabular and narrative formats, accompanied by a flow diagram of the study selection process. Discussion This scoping review will produce a comprehensive map of scholarship on how Latin American migrant men are constructed and governed across legal, political, and media domains in Canada. Findings are expected to inform future interdisciplinary scholarship and contribute to policy analysis concerning racialized migrant men within Canada's migration system. Review Registration: This scoping review has been registered with Open Science Framework (https://osf.io/ky7n3)