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Record Nr.

UNINA9910639887203321

Autore

Vosko Leah F.

Titolo

Transnational Employment Strain in a Global Health Pandemic : Migrant Farmworkers in Canada / / by Leah F. Vosko, Tanya Basok, Cynthia Spring

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2023

ISBN

9783031177040

3031177045

Edizione

[1st ed. 2023.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (167 pages)

Collana

Politics of Citizenship and Migration, , 2520-890X

Disciplina

001.20905

331.5440971

Soggetti

Emigration and immigration - Government policy

Emigration and immigration

Migration Policy

Human Migration

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction -- 2. Rethinking Employment Strain Through a Transnational Lens: Centering Migrant Workers’ Lives -- 3. Transnational Employment Strain: A Longstanding Feature of Migrant Farm Work -- 4. Transnational Employment Strain in Pandemic Times: Magnified Strains and Insufficient Resources -- 5. Mitigating Transnational Employment Strain Among Migrant Farmworkers: Principals and Practical Strategies. .

Sommario/riassunto

The 2020–22 COVID-19 pandemic reinforced inequalities between the global North and South, amplifying pre-existing disparities between national workers and migrants, many of whom sustain food supplies far from home through their work in agriculture. Leah F. Vosko, FRSC, 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 Criminology at the University of Windsor, Canada. Cynthia Spring is a PhD candidate in the Department of Politics at York University, Canada.