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.
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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.
Many have looked to Asia for lessons on successful pandemic management. However, recent COVID-19 outbreaks in Thailand and nearby countries also offer warnings about what not to do.
How we treat migrant workers who put food on our tables: Don't Call Me Resilient EP 4 transcript
Pandemic border restrictions are keeping seasonal crop pickers from the Pacific out of New Zealand. Would adapting the quarantine system help?
Migrant workers' families suffer from limited access to pandemic-related health care and loss of income.
The federal government must make good on its throne speech language about making it easier for migrant workers to formally become Canadian by instituting a comprehensive regularization plan.
COVID-19 has proven that prioritizing the economy over the lives of the poorest and most vulnerable should never be an acceptable fix to economic woes.
Access to culturally appropriate food may be key for newcomers to build connections with their communities.
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.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, India's Narendra Modi government has been successful in scapegoating, discriminating against and marginalizing minorities, putting lives at greater risk.
Now that the pandemic has made migrant workers visible in Canada, as well as the true value of the work they do, it's time to dramatically improve their working conditions.
COVID-19 may not discriminate, but Canadian policy does. Income support during the pandemic must be extended to everyone, including migrant and undocumented workers.
Singapore, once a success in containing coronavirus, now has the most cases in Southeast Asia. One of the main reasons: the government's neglect of its 300,000 foreign migrant workers.
The demands of social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic will make it increasingly difficult for migrant agricultural workers to meet their basic needs.
The way richer nations respond to the coronavirus crash will have significant economic ramifications for countries dependent on remittances.
The legislation before parliament discriminates against employers who take on temporary migrants, impoverishes Australian residents and will hold back the fight against coronavirus.
The US food supply depends on several million agricultural laborers, who are mostly undocumented, tend to work in close quarters and lack medical insurance.
With 1.3 billion people in India under lockdown, how will it affect women, particularly those in rural areas?
More than one-in-16 people in New Zealand is a migrant without residence status. For everyone's sake, to contain COVID-19 we need to ensure those 300,00 people can access health and social services.
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Associate Researcher, Centre for Rural Policy Research, University of Exeter
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Professor, Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Social Economics, UTS Business School, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Economics and National Senior Teaching Fellow, Griffith University
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Associate Professor in Law, University of Adelaide
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Associate Professor, Criminology, Monash University
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Associate Professor of Health Studies, Research Associate, International Migration Research Centre, Wilfrid Laurier University
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Research Fellow, Australian National University
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Professor of Employment Relations, Centre for Work, Organisation and Wellbeing, Griffith University
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Professor of Practice in Economics, UNSW
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Associate Professor, Department of Political Economy, University of Sydney
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Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
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Research Fellow, University of Exeter, University of Exeter
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Senior Lecturer, Sociology, La Trobe University
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Lecturer - Management and Organisations, UWA Business School, University of Western Australia
