The Chinese Exclusion Act and other discriminatory measures had profound and lasting impacts on Chinese women and families in Canada.
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Both at home and in schools, food can become a powerful tool to empower young people to take climate action, which can lead to reduced climate anxiety and increased feelings of hope for the future.
Recent reports that 700 international students and graduates could be deported from Canada reveal how the immigration system leaves them open to exploitation.
Smart, capable students struggled to navigate cultural and language norms in university accounting classrooms.
Australian and New Zealand demand for seasonal workers is having a major impact on Pacific nations’ economies. It will be a hard cycle to break.
Through the Scarborough Charter, many Canadian universities committed to fostering alternative ways of knowing. But more must be done to realize that commitment.
Unable to change the country’s vulnerability to shifts in the global and regional economy, the new prime minister Matekane has few economic levers to pull.
The country urgently needs more people who are committed to living decently to undo the systemic humiliation caused by political and economic institutions.
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.
He used his powerful research to promote social change for justice in South Africa.
The claim that workers are simply moving to white-collar sectors obscures structural barriers to labour mobility, including racism and discrimination.
The promise of labour mobility in the Australian government’s new temporary migrant labour scheme is mostly for employers, not workers.
Don’t Call Me Resilient is a provocative podcast about race that goes in search of solutions for those things no one should have to be resilient for.
Cramped living conditions, a lack of social distancing and informal businesses staying open during lockdown may have come together to drive up the city’s infection rate.
The demands of social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic will make it increasingly difficult for migrant agricultural workers to meet their basic needs.
Nepal’s past dealing with multiple disasters, including the aftermath of its civil war and the massive earthquake of 2015 may have helped the country prepare for the current COVID-19 crisis.
Informal retailers that dot South Africa’s townships have changed dramatically, but at great cost - avoidance of regulation and exploitation of employees.
Joseph Shabalala would grow world famous for his music. But it is shaped by the spiritual aspects of his life as much as it is by the hardships of black life - and by his dreams.
Greece is the 10th largest exporter of strawberries in the world, but evidence shows that success is due to captive migrant farm labour who work in precarious, unsafe and unhealthy conditions.
More attention needs to be paid to aligning South Africa’s family policy with the realities of everyday life.
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ARC Future Fellow and Professor of Criminology, Monash University
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Professor of Sustainable Development, Keele University
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Associate Professor in Law, University of Adelaide
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Associate Professor, Department of Political Economy, University of Sydney
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Social economy research manager, Intellidex and research associate, UJ, University of Johannesburg
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Associate Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Associate Professor of Geography, Penn State
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Deputy Program Director (Migration), Grattan Institute
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Professor of Development Studies, University of Fort Hare
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Professor of Social Economics, UTS Business School, University of Technology Sydney
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Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, School of Media, Film and Journalism, Monash University
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Associate professor, University of Johannesburg
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Professor of Social Development Studies, University of Johannesburg
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Senior Lecturer in Public Policy, Lancaster University
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Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminology, University of Windsor
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Associate Professor of Work and Organisational Studies, University of Sydney
