A migrant worker picks crabs in Hoopers Island, Maryland.
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With more than 2 million migrant workers finding food processing jobs in rural America, their struggle to find adequate health care remains elusive.
Immigrant women working in the care sector do the essential work many Canadians rely on, but low wages mean many need to work past retirement age.
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Immigrant care workers are having to work into retirement age to make ends meet. The Canadian government must do more to support them.
A rally against violence toward Asian Americans, after the March 16 attack in Atlanta, Georgia, that killed eight people, including six Chinese and Korean women.
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The media tends to render Asian Americans as either a ‘perpetual foreigner’ or ‘model minority’ – both stereotypes that have been levied in tandem against immigrants from Asia since the 1830s.
Dollarama worker Ze Carole Benedict, originally from Cameroon, addresses a demonstration in Montréal in August 2020 to join in calls for higher pay and better working conditions amid COVID-19.
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Urgent measures are necessary from various levels of government to develop support programs for immigrant women during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Many of these female asylum-seekers have already been abused before they cross the border.
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Reported abuses include serving moldy bread, delaying medical care and subjecting detainees to sexual harassment, sexual assault and bullying.