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How we treat migrant workers who put food on our tables: Don't Call Me Resilient EP 4 transcript
As the climate changes and heatwaves become more frequent and severe, it's vital we do more to understand who is most vulnerable and how we can reduce their risk.
Migrant workers are not inherently more vulnerable to COVID-19, nor more likely to be carrying it than Canadians. Yet our treatment of them this year stigmatizes them and puts them at risk.
One way that farms can handle shortages of protective gear for workers is by switching to less-toxic pest control methods.
The US food supply depends on several million agricultural laborers, who are mostly undocumented, tend to work in close quarters and lack medical insurance.
Central Americans who came to the US in the 1980s fleeing civil war drew on their background fighting for social justice back home to help unionize farmworkers, janitors and poultry packers in the US.
Immigration experts explain who's really trying to cross the US-Mexico border, what they want — and why immigration, even undocumented immigration, actually benefits the country.
Comic contracts can meet all the requirements for contracts to be legally binding.
A researcher takes a closer look at the millions of unauthorized workers who play an essential role in the U.S. economy – and why they matter.
Female migrant farm workers across North America are vulnerable to sexual abuse and assault because the systems set up to temporarily employ them offer no protections or access to citizenship.
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Senior Staff Specialist, Alice Springs Hospital. Honorary, Australian National University
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Thermal Physiologist, National Critical Care and Trauma Response Centre; University Fellow, Charles Darwin University
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Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Director of Cornell Farmworker Program, Cornell University
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Associate Professor of Health Studies, Research Associate, International Migration Research Centre, Wilfrid Laurier University
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Associate Professor of Commercial Law, University of Cape Town
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PhD Candidate in Sociology and UVic Assistant Professor of Sociology (incoming), University of Toronto
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College Professor of Anthropology, Okanagan College
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Associate Professor of Latin American Studies and Geography, University of Arizona
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Lecturer in Integrated Crop Management, University of Neuchâtel
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Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Maine
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Graduate Student, University of Massachusetts Boston
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Assistant Professor, Nursing, Western University
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Associate Professor, International Migration Research Centre and Balsillie School of International Affairs, Wilfrid Laurier University
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Doctoral Candidate, University of Toronto
