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Janet McLaughlin

Wilfrid Laurier University
Verified email at wlu.ca
Cited by 1682

[BOOK][B] Trouble in our fields: health and human rights among Mexican and Caribbean migrant farm workers in Canada

JE McLaughlin - 2009 - library-archives.canada.ca
For many years Canada has quietly rationalized importing temporary low-skilled migrant
labour through managed migration programs to appease industries desiring cheap and flexible …

Pathways to precarity: structural vulnerabilities and lived consequences for migrant farmworkers in Canada

J McLaughlin, J Hennebry - Producing and negotiating non …, 2013 - books.google.com
The expanding reliance on migrant labour in Canadian agriculture is part of a larger
international trend in labour relations, which increasingly enables employers to evade or violate …

Migrant farmworkers face heightened vulnerabilities during COVID-19

…, J Hennebry, E Martell, J McLaughlin - … Food Systems, and …, 2020 - foodsystemsjournal.org
Each year over 50,000 migrant workers come to Canada through the Temporary Foreign
Worker Program (TFWP)’s agricultural streams. The largest program stream within this, the …

Classifying the “ideal migrant worker”: Mexican and Jamaican transnational farmworkers in Canada

J McLaughlin - Focaal, 2010 - berghahnjournals.com
This article analyzes the ideology and practice of multi-unit competition that pervades
neoliberal subjectivities and produces the “ideal” flexible worker within contemporary global …

Out of the loop:(In) access to health care for migrant workers in Canada

J Hennebry, J McLaughlin, K Preibisch - Journal of international Migration …, 2016 - Springer
Drawing on a survey of nearly 600 migrant farm workers in Ontario, Canada, we investigate
the ways in which the liminality of temporary migrants is both conditioning and consequential …

[HTML][HTML] Paper versus practice: occupational health and safety protections and realities for temporary foreign agricultural workers in Ontario

J McLaughlin, J Hennebry… - … sur le travail et la santé, 2014 - journals.openedition.org
Over 20,000 temporary foreign agricultural workers come to Ontario each year, primarily from
Mexico and the Caribbean. Agricultural workers are exposed to a number of occupational …

Precarious patients: Health professionals' perspectives on providing care to Mexican and Jamaican migrants in Canada's Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program

DC Cole, JE McLaughlin, JL Hennebry… - Rural and Remote …, 2019 - search.informit.org
Introduction: The intersecting vulnerabilities of migrant agricultural workers (MAWs) impact
both their health and their access to health care in rural areas, yet rural clinicians' voices are …

Food security at whose expense? A critique of the Canadian temporary farm labour migration regime and proposals for change

AM Weiler, J McLaughlin, DC Cole - International Migration, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Temporary farm labour migration schemes in Canada have been justified on the premise that
they bolster food security for Canadians by addressing agricultural labour shortages, while …

[PDF][PDF] Falling through the cracks: Seasonal foreign farm workers' health and compensation across borders

J McLaughlin - 2007 - scholars.wlu.ca
We would work simply with a shirt, we didn’t have equipment… We don’t receive training…
One occasion… we cleaned the greenhouse… and Pedro… was going around with the …

Medical repatriation of migrant farm workers in Ontario: a descriptive analysis

AM Orkin, M Lay, J McLaughlin, M Schwandt… - … Open Access Journal, 2014 - cmajopen.ca
Background Approximately 40 000 migrant farm workers are employed annually in Canada
through temporary foreign worker programs. Workers experiencing health conditions that …