Vosko, Leah F.

Transnational Employment Strain in a Global Health Pandemic Migrant Farmworkers in Canada / [electronic resource] : by Leah F. Vosko, Tanya Basok, Cynthia Spring. - 1st ed. 2023. - Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. - XVII, 157 p. 5 illus., 4 illus. in color. online resource. - Politics of Citizenship and Migration, 2520-890X .

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. .

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.

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Emigration and immigration--Government policy.
Emigration and immigration.
Migration Policy.
Human Migration.

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