Legal Frameworks, Political Discourse, and Media Representation of Latin American Migrant Men in Canada: A Scoping Review Protocol

Latin American migrant men occupy a structurally central position within Canada’s migration regime, yet scholarship on this population remains fragmented across migration studies, gender and masculinities research, labour policy, and media analysis. This scoping review aims to map and synthesize scholarship on how adult Latin American migrant men in Canada are constituted within legal and policy frameworks, and how these constructions are reproduced, contested, or transformed across parliamentary debate, civil society engagement, and media reporting. The review will follow the JBI methodology for scoping reviews and will be reported in accordance with PRISMA-ScR. Sources published in English, French, or Spanish from 2002 onwards will be included to reflect the implementation of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA) and subsequent transformations in migration governance. Eligible sources must address Latin American migrant men aged 18 years and older residing in Canada, including temporary foreign workers, permanent residents, refugees, asylum seekers, and undocumented migrants. A comprehensive search will be conducted across multidisciplinary academic databases, parliamentary archives, legal repositories, media databases, and grey literature sources, including Canada Commons, CanLII, EBSCO, HeinOnline, Lexis Advance Quicklaw, Nexis Uni, ProQuest, and SSRN. Two independent reviewers will complete title and abstract screening and full-text review, followed by structured data extraction using a standardized tool. Data will be analyzed descriptively and through qualitative content analysis, with findings presented in tabular and narrative formats, along with a PRISMA-ScR flow diagram. This review will generate the first integrated mapping of how Latin American migrant men are constructed and governed across legal, political, and media domains in Canada. Foregrounding masculinity as a category of governance, it provides a foundation for more coherent interdisciplinary research and evidence-informed policy analysis concerning racialized migrant men. The protocol is registered with the Open Science Framework ( https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/DEH4P ).