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COVID-19 among migrant farmworkers in Canada: employment strain in a transnational context
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COVID-19 among migrant farmworkers in Canada: employment strain in a transnational context

Leah F. Vosko, Tanya Basok, Cynthia Spring, Guillermo Candiz and Glynis George
ILO working paper, 79, ILO
2022
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.54394/GTRM8209

Abstract

agricultural worker migrant workers COVID-19 working conditions hazardous work labour shortage precarious employment occupational safety occupational health occupational injury Canada
This study analyzes the conditions that migrant farmworkers in Canada endured prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic (January 2020-March 2022). It draws on policy analysis and open-ended interviews with workers in Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP), as well as non-status migrants employed in agriculture. It evaluates policies and measures adopted by Canadian authorities to address labour shortages in agriculture and protect the health of migrant farmworkers.
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