Transnational Employment Strain in a Global Health Pandemic: Migrant Farmworkers in Canada

by Leah F. Vosko

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031177037
• ISBN13: 9783031177033
• Release Date: January 2023
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 157 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.3"