Migrant Workers and COVID-19 in Canada

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• Immigrants on front-line during pandemic | Baytoday.ca | May 2020 |  https://www.baytoday.ca/columns/immigration-matters/opinion-immigrants-on-front-line-during-pandemic-2373452

• Nurses talk about access to PPE during the pandemic | CTV News | April 2020 |  https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/ontario-long-term-care-nurses-make-shocking-allegations-about-access-to-ppe-during-pandemic-1.4907563

• Ontario nurses win the battle for access to PPE | The Star | April 2020 | https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/ontario-nurses-win-court-battle-to-secure-access-to-ppe-in-long-term-care-homes-1.4909643

• The Coronavirus reveals the necessity of Canada’s migrant workers | The Conversation | May 2020|  https://theconversation.com/the-coronavirus-reveals-the-necessity-of-canadas-migrant-workers-136360

• A study urged better standards for migrant workers housing-now COVID-19 has struck | The Star | May 2020 |   https://www.thestar.com/business/2020/05/11/a-study-urged-better-standards-for-migrant-workers-housing-nothing-was-done-now-covid-19-has-struck.html

• Leamington, Ontario rallies behind migrant workers as 96 farm workers test positive for COVID-19 | CBC | June 2020 | https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/migrant-worker-march-caravan-leamington-1.5630551

• Outbreaks of COVID-19 in long-term care facilities lead to concerns for training and use of PPE | Global News | April 2020 |  https://globalnews.ca/news/6801945/pinecrest-psw-coronavirus-covid-19/

• Banning farm workers from stores is racial profiling | niagara now | April 2020 |  https://www.niagaranow.com/news.phtml/3714-banning-farm-workers-from-stores-is-racial-profiling-brock-prof

• Essential changes for essential migrant workers | iPolitics |June 2020 | https://ipolitics.ca/2020/06/08/essential-changes-for-essential-migrant-workers/

• Challenges of immigrant workers in medical field | Canadian Law of Work Forum | May 2020 |  http://lawofwork.ca/challenges-faced-by-immigrants-working-in-the-medical-field/

• COVID-19 highlights the need for better treatment of migrant labour | CP24 |   June 2020 | https://www.cp24.com/news/covid-19-highlights-need-for-better-treatment-of-migrant-labour-advocates-say-1.4979119

• Migrant farm workers at the epicentre | Injured Workers Online | June 2020 |  https://injuredworkersonline.org/migrant-farmworkers-at-the-epicentre/

• Recommendations for overcoming health challenges faced migrant agricultural workers during the COVID-19 pandemic | HC Recommendations | June 2020 | http://www.migrantworker.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/HC-recommendations-June-1-2020.pdf

• The contribution of immigrants and population groups designated as visible minorities to nurse aide, orderly and patient service associate occupations | Statistics Canada | June 2020 |  https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/45-28-0001/2020001/article/00036-eng.htm

• Reassessing Canada’s refugee policy in the COVID-19 era | Policy Options |  June 2020 | https://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/june-2020/reassessing-canadas-refugee-policy-in-the-covid-19-era/

• COVID-19 response and recovery must ensure migrants rights | Migrants Rights Network | 2020 |  https://migrantrights.ca/covid19/

• The distribution of temporary foreign workers across industries in Canada | Statistics Canada | June 2020 |  https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/en/pub/45-28-0001/2020001/article/00028-eng.pdf?st=peFpVABC

• The daily-study: the contribution of immigrants and population groups designated as visible minorities to nurse aide, orderly and patient service associate occupations | statistics Canada | June 2020 |  https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/200622/dq200622c-eng.htm?CMP=mstatcan

• How COVID-19 has affected the essential workers in retail | National Post | May 2020 |  https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/hundreds-infected-several-dead-how-covid-19-has-affected-the-unsung-essential-workers-in-retail

• COVID-19 death of local migrant worker | Windsor Star | June 2020 |  https://windsorstar.com/news/local-news/local-migrant-worker-dies-of-covid-19

• Temporary foreign worker dies of COVID-19 as disease hits Southwestern Ontario farms hard | CBC | June 2020 | https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/southwestern-ontario-farms-covid19-migrant-worker-dies-1.5593046

• “System of Oppression” puts temporary foreign workers at risk of COVID-19 | City News | April 2020 |  https://www.citynews1130.com/2020/04/23/temporary-foreign-workers-risk-covid-19-advocate/

• Working poor among the hardest hit during COVID-19 pandemic | CBC | April 2020 | https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/opinion-working-poor-hit-hard-covid19-1.5548544

• Coronavirus: Canada stigmatizes, jeopardizes essential migrant workers | The Conversation | June 2020 |   https://theconversation.com/coronavirus-canada-stigmatizes-jeopardizes-essential-migrant-workers-138879

• Essential but expendable: how Canada failed migrant farm workers | The Globe and Mail | June 2020 |  https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-essential-but-expendable-how-canada-failed-migrant-farm-workers/

• Migrant farm workers die in Canada and Mexico wants answers | The Washington Post | June 2020 |  https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/migrant-farmworkers-die-in-canada-and-mexico-wants-answers/2020/06/18/2e419766-b00a-11ea-8f56-63f38c990077_story.html

• If migrants workers are essential then they should be good enough to stay | The Province | June 2020 |  https://theprovince.com/opinion/jonathon-braun-and-rene-john-nicolas-good-enough-to-be-essential-good-enough-to-stay

• Exploitation, abuse, health hazards rise for migrant health workers during COVID-19 | CBC | June 2020 |  https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/migrant-workers-farm-deaths-report-1.5602596

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​Migrant Workers and COVID-19 - Globally

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• Immigrant Health-Care Workers in the United States in 2018 | Migration Policy Institute | May 2020 |  https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/immigrant-health-care-workers-united-states 

• American owes more to its essential immigrant workers | The New Republic  | June 2020 | https://newrepublic.com/article/158230/america-owes-essential-immigrant-workers

• 14 principles of protection for migrants and displaced people during COVID-19 | Refugees International | April 2020 |  https://www.refugeesinternational.org/reports/2020/4/29/14-principles-of-protection-for-migrants-and-displaced-people-during-covid-19

• Rights to COVID- 19 emergency relief |  Minority Rights Group (MRG)| May 2020 | https://minorityrights.org/2020/03/24/covid19-leave-no-one-behind/

• Immigrants worry about social ties and finances during Coronavirus | The Conversation | May 2020 |  https://theconversation.com/immigrants-are-worrying-about-social-ties-and-finances-during-coronavirus-137983

• Latino workers hit the hardest as the pandemic erases many jobs | Deseret News | April 2020 |  https://www.deseret.com/utah/2020/4/10/21213979/latino-hispanic-coronavirus-covid-19-undocumented-workers-immigrants-unemployment-hit-hardest

• How fear spreads Coronavirus | The Atlantic | May 2020 |  https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/05/immigrants-sick-covid-19-are-scared-seek-help/612142/

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