Seasonal workers are often considered to be expendable, cheap labour. New research across three states has found they’re also subject to crowded accommodation.
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Mass tourism reshapes urban spaces, often at the expense of local communities.
Farm workers milk cows, drive machinery and pick crops – yet their grievances are seldom heard.
Firefighters work long hours to protect communities, often in dangerous conditions and for low starting pay. Surveys show the impact that can have on their physical and mental health.
The new government is likely to increase the numbers of workers coming to New Zealand on seasonal work schemes. But the impact on Pacific economies and communities is now too great to be ignored.
What makes a city workable to many people is access to informal labour markets, cheap travel options, flexible housing and rental arrangements.
Whoever wins on May 21, protecting Pacific workers in Australia must be a policy priority, as temporary migration will continue to rise post-pandemic.
Rather than listening to the grievances of illegal farm workers Australia is threatening them with exploitation while broadening the means by which agricultural employers can bring workers into Australia.
Tying migrant workers to one employer as a visa condition stymies their capacity to act in the face of poor conditions.
Lockdowns and restrictions disrupted the lives of most Australians, but the impacts on one hard-hit group, nomads, have been largely overlooked. We don’t even know how many of them there are.
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 given society a teachable moment, and we should now establish the policies, programs and technologies to ensure our food system becomes stronger, more resilient and more equitable.
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.
The US food supply depends on several million agricultural laborers, who are mostly undocumented, tend to work in close quarters and lack medical insurance.
Australia’s farmers may not be able to do without foreign workers coming into the country.
Every year, migrant workers come to Canada to pick the fruits and vegetables we take for granted. They aren’t paid well and get none of the benefits they pay into. It’s time to treat them fairly.
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Associate Professor of Health Studies, Research Associate, International Migration Research Centre, Wilfrid Laurier University
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Honorary Research Associate, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University
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Professor Emeritus, Labour Studies and Political Science, McMaster University
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Research Assistant, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University
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Associate Professor, Nursing, Western University
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Assistant Professor, Department of Criminology, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto Metropolitan University
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Professor and Head of School of Social Sciences, The University of Western Australia
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Urban Planning, Department Human Geography, Planning, and International Development, University of Amsterdam
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Postdoctoral research fellow, Flinders University; University of Canberra
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Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Maine
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Doctoral Candidate, Medical Anthropology, University of Toronto
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Director of the Arrell Food Institute and Professor in the Dept. of Geography, Environment and Geomatics, University of Guelph
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Director, La Trobe Centre for Global Security, and Professor of International Relations, La Trobe University
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Professor, International Migration Research Centre, Wilfrid Laurier University
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Lecturer in Critical Social & Political Geography, University of Liverpool