Amendments to the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations fail to address the power imbalances at the heart of the temporary foreign worker program.
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Australia is rapidly expanding visa programs for Pacific Islanders to fill labour shortages. More needs to be done to overcome cultural tensions in local communities.
Poor housing put migrant workers at risk for COVID-19. A federal government consultation on national housing standards is a crucial opportunity to support migrant workers’ health, safety and dignity.
Rather than listening to the grievances of illegal farm workers Australia is threatening them with exploitation while broadening the means by which agricultural employers can bring workers into Australia.
Many farmers want to do the right thing. But their livelihoods will be threatened if weak visa rules allow dodgy operators to mistreat migrant workers.
The promise of labour mobility in the Australian government’s new temporary migrant labour scheme is mostly for employers, not workers.
Tying migrant workers to one employer as a visa condition stymies their capacity to act in the face of poor conditions.
How to keep food prices down? Use technology to change the way we produce food and public policy to ensure there’s a fair price put on things like climate change, human labour and animal welfare.
For much of its history Canada has encouraged people to come and work in this country. However, racialized migrant workers often face an immigration system designed to leave them powerless.
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought further suffering to migrant workers in Canada already experiencing the abuses of discriminatory immigration policies and poor working conditions.
How we treat migrant workers who put food on our tables: Don’t Call Me Resilient EP 4 transcript
In the wake of COVID-19, researchers can become trusted figures of authority who can re-appropriate their networks, skills and knowledge to better the lives of vulnerable populations.
COVID-19 may not discriminate, but Canadian policy does. Income support during the pandemic must be extended to everyone, including migrant and undocumented workers.
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Senior Research Fellow, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University
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Assistant Professor, Nursing, Western University
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Program Director, Economic Policy, Grattan Institute
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Director of the Arrell Food Institute and Professor in the Dept. of Geography, Environment and Geomatics, University of Guelph
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Deputy Program Director (Migration), Grattan Institute
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Assistant Professor, Department of Social Medicine Population and Public Health, University of California, Riverside
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Assistant Professor, Documentary Film, OCAD University
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Associate Professor of Health Studies, Research Associate, International Migration Research Centre, Wilfrid Laurier University
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Senior Lecturer & ARC DECRA Research Fellow, Griffith University
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Assistant Professor, Sociology, University of Victoria
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PhD candidate, The University of Melbourne
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PhD Candidate in Anthropology and Sociology, Graduate Institute – Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement (IHEID)
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Doctoral Candidate, Medical Anthropology, University of Toronto
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Social Justice Lawyer & Assistant Professor, York University, Canada
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Director, Food and Agriculture Institute, University of The Fraser Valley
