Migrant Agricultural Workers in Local and Global Contexts: Toward a Better Life?

McLaughlin, Janet; Weiler, Anelyse M.

doi:10.1111/joac.12199

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“…The position of migrant food workers epitomizes the precarity of much food-related work ( Preibisch & Otero, 2014 ). Even when migrant workers have legal rights to enter a country, many so-called “temporary” migrant worker programs function by curbing migrant workers’ practical access to basic employment standards, inviting a range of labor and human rights violations ( McLaughlin & Weiler, 2017 ).…”

Section: Racialized Migrant Food Workers Face Unique Forms Of Inequitmentioning

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Equity as both a means and an end: Lessons for resilient food systems from COVID-19

2020

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Highlights COVID-19 has exposed interconnected weaknesses of food, social and economic systems. Levels of food insecurity have increased by 83-132 million people mainly due to food access disruptions and exacerbated poverty. Those who are food insecure are more likely to suffer from health conditions that cause more severe symptoms of COVID-19. Food workers are essential but are treated as sacrificial, with racialized migrant food workers facing unique inequities. Addressing these inequities are not only what is just, it is what is necessary to promote resilience to future shocks.

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Section: Racialized Migrant Food Workers Face Unique Forms Of Inequitmentioning

confidence: 99%

Equity as both a means and an end: Lessons for resilient food systems from COVID-19

2020

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“…International Labour Organization has given very limited attention to migrant farm workers working conditions, in terms of enforcing legislature to safeguard temporary foreign workers' occupational health and safety, in addition, the host country legislature is poorly applicable to this vulnerable population of workers due to their nature of temporariness and precariousness [32]. My scoping review findings supports that existing situations of neglect and abuse of FSFWs occupational health issues has further exacerbated due to COVID-19 related public health control measures as one NGO participant summed up ""Because we do not have proper rights, they step on our necks," [ 28].…”

Section: Covid-19 Public Health Measures -Testing Isolation Social mentioning

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Occupational Health and Safety Standards of Foreign Seasonal Farm Workers: Evaluation of Personal Protection Measures, Policies and Practices

Weerasinghe¹

2021

Occupational Wellbeing

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Health and safety standards are paramount to all agricultural workers and more so to the foreign seasonal farm workers. European, North American and Oceanic agricultural sector heavily depends on the foreign workers migrating temporarily to carryout seasonal agricultural work that are not attractive to local citizens. The aim of this chapter is to critically analyze existing workplace health and safety measures, policies and practices of Foreign agricultural workers with a secondary focus on Canadian public health standards that applies to COVID-19 pandemic control and beyond. During the pandemic, many countries opened international labour migration as a measure of economic recovery. Recent news media reported two Caribbean workers in the Canadian Agricultural sector, had died of COVID-19 complications. The basis of this chapter is the research based evidence that the author carried out on occupational health and safety standards of the population of foreign seasonal farm workers using a multi-method data collection: a scoping review of existing standards, policies and practices and personal interviews with seasonal agricultural workers and their employers. This chapter provides a critical analysis of data from multiple sources and from multiple jurisdictions to uncover gaps and malpractices of existing occupational health and safety practice standards for illness and injury prevention of foreign seasonal farm workers.

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“…This permits a sum of all points and sums of point for each criterion to easily compare across locations. Final scores were numerically modified (1)(2)(3)(4) to support statistical analysis. (Table 2).…”

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“…Countries around the world are facing an increase in industrialized agriculture, growing urbanization, shifting populations, and a mounting public health dichotomy between urban/rural built environments [1,2]. The current state of research on local life in small agrarian towns reveals a critical knowledge-gap linking built environments with health-promoting behaviors.…”

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Crosscutting environmental risk with design: A multi-site, multi-city socioecological approach for Iowa’s diversifying small towns

2021

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Globally, the influx of refugee, migrant, and immigrant populations into small centers of industrialized agriculture has called attention to a looming public health crisis. As small towns shift from remote villages into rural, agri-industrial centers, they offer limited access to amenities needed to support human well-being. Our study focused on three Iowa towns that continue to experience an increase in under-represented minority populations and decline of majority populations as a proxy for studying shifting populations in an era of industrialized agriculture and global capital. We aimed to understand the socioecological impact of built environments—outdoor locations where people live and work—and likelihood of environmental exposures to impact vulnerable populations. Urban socioecological measures tend to present contradictory results in small towns due to their reliance on density and proximity. To compensate, we used post-occupancy evaluations (POE) to examine built environments for evidence of access to environmental design criteria to support healthy behaviors. The study systematically identified 44 locations on transects across three small towns to employ a 62 item POE and assess multiple environmental criteria to crosscut design with environmental health disparities. Principal-components factor analysis identified two distinct significant components for environmental risk and population vulnerability, supporting similar studies on parallel communities. Multilevel modeling found a divergence between supportive environmental design coupled with an increase environmental risk due to location. The combined effect likely contributes to environmental health disparities. The study provides a strategy for auditing small town built environments as well as insight into achieving equity.

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Migrant Agricultural Workers in Local and Global Contexts: Toward a Better Life?

Cited by 16 publications

References 14 publications

Equity as both a means and an end: Lessons for resilient food systems from COVID-19

Equity as both a means and an end: Lessons for resilient food systems from COVID-19

Occupational Health and Safety Standards of Foreign Seasonal Farm Workers: Evaluation of Personal Protection Measures, Policies and Practices

Crosscutting environmental risk with design: A multi-site, multi-city socioecological approach for Iowa’s diversifying small towns

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