Vosko / Basok / Spring Transnational Employment Strain in a Global Health Pandemic

Migrant Farmworkers in Canada
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-3-031-17704-0
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 157 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Political Science and International Studies

The 2020-22 COVID-19 pandemic reinforced inequalities between the global North and South, amplifying pre-existing disparities between migrant and citizen/permanent resident workers in receiving and sending states worldwide. In contexts such as Canada, it also underscored that many workers in occupations and sectors deemed “essential” enough to be exempt from stay-at-home orders and other public safety measures are migrants, a sizeable number of whom sustain Canada’s food supply through their work in its agricultural industry.

This book explores the dynamics behind the pandemic’s deleterious outcomes for this vital group of workers, highlighting migrant farmworkers importance to the Canadian economy, society, and the world of work alongside the conditions they endured before and during the global health pandemic through policy and media analysis and open-ended interviews with workers enrolled in two streams of Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) as well as migrants without legal status employed in agriculture located in Ontario and Quebec. Advancing the notion of transnational employment strain, the authors derive insight from the employment strain model, a framework for understanding risks to the physical and psychological well-being of workers, and expand it to account for migrants’ relationships across transnational space.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Vosko, Leah F.

Basok, Tanya

Spring, Cynthia

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. IntroductionSituating the Case Study: the COVID-19 Outbreaks, Travel Bans and Exemptions in the Canadian ContextMethodology & MethodsChapter Outline
Chapter 2. Rethinking Employment Strain Through a Transnational Lens: Centering Migrant Workers’ Lives Migrant Farmworkers in Canada: The Institutional Context Transnational Employment Strain How a Global Health Crisis Exacerbated Employment Strain among Essential Migrant Farmworkers
Chapter 3. Transnational Employment Strain: A Longstanding Feature of Migrant Farm WorkEmployment demands among transnational migrant farmworkersEmployment Resources Available to Migrant Farmworkers 
Chapter 4. Transnational Employment Strain in Pandemic Times: Magnified Strains and Insufficient ResourcesIncreased occupational health risks and inadequate protections Amplified Strains in Employer-Provided Housing Heightened Insecurity: Reprisals, Dismissals and Repatriation Reduced Earnings and Insufficient Income Supports “Essential” but Excluded from employment resources provided to frontline workers 
Chapter 5. Mitigating Transnational Employment Strain Among Migrant Farmworkers: Principals and Practical Strategies Open Work Permits Permanent Residency Status for Injured Workers A National Housing Standard Opportunities for Better Jobs and Full and Meaningful Access to Wide-Ranging Services Access to Income Support Access to public health insurance Decency in Wages and Collective Bargaining Rights for Agricultural Workers: Increasing Workers’Power over the Employment Relationship Regular and Unannounced Workplace and Housing Inspections

Über Autor(innen)

Leah F. Vosko is Professor of Political Science and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair at York University, Canada.

Tanya Basok is Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Windsor, Canada.

Cynthia Spring is a PhD candidate in the Department of Politics at York University, Canada.