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Housing for migrant workers in Western Canada. Many workers live in poorly maintained housing and face surveillance and harassment from employers. (Elise Hjalmarson)

Decades of neglect: Migrant farm worker housing needs national regulatory standards

C. Susana Caxaj, Western University; Anelyse Weiler, University of Victoria; J. Adam Perry, St. Francis Xavier University, and Jill Hanley, McGill University

Canada’s ability to produce food hinges on hiring migrant agricultural workers. Yet, housing for these workers is often overcrowded, dangerous and undignified.
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. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frank Gunn

Working more and making less: Canada needs to protect immigrant women care workers as they age

Naomi Lightman, Toronto Metropolitan University and Hamid Akbary, University of Calgary

Immigrant care workers are having to work into retirement age to make ends meet. The Canadian government must do more to support them.
A woman takes part in a protest in Montreal, Jan. 30, 2021, to demand status for all workers and to demand dignity for all non status migrants as full human beings as the COVID-19 pandemic continues in Canada and around the world. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes

How we treat migrant workers who put food on our tables: Don’t Call Me Resilient EP 4 podcast + transcript

Ibrahim Daair, The Conversation and Vinita Srivastava, The Conversation

How we treat migrant workers who put food on our tables: Don’t Call Me Resilient EP 4 transcript

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