One woman said her husband and his friends told her that, in Australia, police strip-search women who complain about domestic violence.
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Home care is essential to Ontario’s health- care system, but its failures are offloaded onto underpaid personal support workers — mostly racialized immigrant women —who often work in unsafe conditions.
With more than 2 million migrant workers finding food processing jobs in rural America, their struggle to find adequate health care remains elusive.
Immigrant care workers are having to work into retirement age to make ends meet. The Canadian government must do more to support them.
The media tends to render Asian Americans as either a ‘perpetual foreigner’ or ‘model minority’ – both stereotypes that have been levied in tandem against immigrants from Asia since the 1830s.
Urgent measures are necessary from various levels of government to develop support programs for immigrant women during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Reported abuses include serving moldy bread, delaying medical care and subjecting detainees to sexual harassment, sexual assault and bullying.
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