Stephanie Premji, professeure, McMaster University, School of Labour Studies

Janet McLaughlin, professeure, Wilfrid Laurier University, Health Studies; associée en recherche, International Migration Research Centre

Jill Hanley, professeure titulaire, École de travail social de l'Université McGill, et Directrice scientifique, Institut universitaire SHERPA : immigration, culture, santé

Jenna Hennebry, professeure, Wilfrid Laurier University, Balsillie School of International Affairs;  cofondatrice, International Migration Research Centre

Susana Caxaj, professeure adjointe, University of Western Ontario, Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing

Kailey Minnings, Médecin résident (Médicine familiale), Mount Sinai Hospital and University of Toronto

Daniel Côté, professionnel chercheur, Institut de recherche en santé et sécurité du travail (IRSST); professeur auxiliaire, Université de Montréal, Département d’anthropologie

Mircea Vultur, chercheur, Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS)

Sylvie Gravel, professeure associée, Université du Québec à Montréal, Département d’organisation et ressources humaines,

Ai-Thuy Huynh, professionnelle scientifique, Institut de recherche en santé et sécurité du travail (IRSST)

Katherine Lippel, professeure et titulaire de la Chaire de recherche éminente en droit de la santé et de la sécurité du travail, Université d’Ottawa, Faculté de droit, Section droit civil

Anthony Bruno, étudiant, Wilfrid Laurier University

Deon Castello, étudiant au doctorat, Wilfrid Laurier University

Mireille Gélinas, étudiante à la maitrise, INRS

Pankil Goswani, étudiante au doctorat, McGill University

Stephanie Mayell, étudiante au doctorat, University of Toronto

Guillermo Vensan, étudiante au doctorat, Concordia University

IAVGO Community Legal Clinic (IAVGO)

Réseau d’aide aux travailleuses et travailleurs migrants agricoles du Québec (RATTMAQ)

South Asian Women’s Rights Organization (SAWRO)

Premji, S., Begum, M., Medley, A. 2023. Systemic barriers to reporting work injuries and illnesses in contexts of language barriers. American Journal of Industrial Medicine. 66(2): 122-131.

Senthanar, S., Koehoorn, M. Tamburic, L. Premji S., Bultmann U. McLeod C.B. 2022. Differences in modified return-to-work by immigration characteristics among a cohort of workers in British Columbia, Canada. Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation. Published online ahead of print October 29. 

Basok, Tanya and Tucker, Eric and Vosko, Leah F. and Caxaj, C. Susana and Hennebry, Jenna L. and Mayell, Stephanie and McLaughlin, Janet and Weiler, Anelyse M., The ‘contract’ and its discontents: Can it address protection gaps for migrant agricultural workers in Canada? (February 14, 2023). Osgoode Legal Studies Research Paper No. 4412016, International Migration, 00, 1– 11.

Mayell, Stephanie, and Janet McLaughlin (2022). “Health Risks, Vulnerabilities, and Barriers to Accessing Health Care, Employment Rights, and Workers’ Compensation for SAWP Workers in Ontario.” Expert report prepared for the Industrial Accident Victims Group of Ontario (IAVGO), for submission to the Workplace Safety and Insurance Appeals Tribunal (WSIAT), May 15, pp. 1-37.

Caxaj, Susana, Maxwell Tran, Michelle Tew, Stephanie Mayell, Janet McLaughlin, Shail Rawal, Donald Cole, and Leah F. Vosko (2022). Key Findings and Recommendations from a Study of Coroner’s Files of Migrant Agricultural Workers’ Deaths in Ontario from January 2020 to June 2021. Migrant Worker Health Expert Working Group. Toronto, ON: February 1: http://www.migrantworker.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Jan.29_Coroner-Study-Key-Findings-and-Recs_Final.pdf.

Yanar, B. Nasir K., Massoud A., Usmani S., Premji S., Smith P. 2022. Employers’ Experiences with Safe Work Integration of Recent Immigrants and Refugees. Safety Science. 155, 105856.

Cohen, A. & Caxaj, C. S. (2022). A Lifeline in Troubled waters: A Support model Intervention for Migrant Farm Workers. International Migration, 00, 1 – 16.  

Caxaj, C. S., Cohen, A. & Colindres, C. (2022). More of the same? Migrant agricultural workers' health, safety and legal rights in the COVID-19 context. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems and Community Development (JAFSCD), 11 (2), 139 – 156.

Caxaj, C. S., Tran, M., Mayell, S., McLaughlin, J., Rawal, S., Vosko, L., Cole, D.  Migrant agricultural workers’ deaths in Ontario from January 2020 to June 2021: a qualitative descriptive study. International Journal for Equity in Health, 21 (98), e1 – e17

Côté, D., Dubé, J., & Gravel, S. (2022), Developing intercultural competence in a complex organizational structure: a case study within Quebec’s workers’ compensation board. Journal of Applied Rehabilitation Counseling, 53(3).

Coutu, M.-F., Durand, M.-J., Côté, D., Tremblay, D., Sylvain, C., Gouin, M.-M., Bilodeau, K., Nastasia, I., Paquette, M.-A., & Labrecque, M.-É. (2022). Building a Common Language to Facilitate Discussion Among Stakeholders in Work Disability: A Consensus Group Approach. Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10926-022-10022-1

Coutu, M.-F., Durand, M.-J., Côté, D., Tremblay, D., Sylvain, C., Gouin, M.-M., Bilodeau, K., Nastasia, I., & Paquette, M.-A. (2022). Ethnocultural Minority Workers and Sustainable Return to Work Following Work Disability: A Qualitative Interpretive Description Study. Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10926-022-10044-9

Premji, S., Begum, M. Medley, A. 2022. Language Accommodations in Workers’ Compensation: Comparing Ontario and Quebec. New Solutions: A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy, 31(4): 452-459

Caxaj, Susana, Maxwell Tran, Michelle Tew, Stephanie Mayell, Janet McLaughlin, Shail Rawal, Donald Cole, and Leah F. Vosko. (July 2022) Migrant Agricultural Workers’ Deaths in Ontario from January 2020 to June 2021: A Qualitative Descriptive Study. International Journal for Equity in Health,21(98).

Kelly, Philip, Janet McLaughlin, and Don Wells (equal co-authors). Disposable People: The Politics of Temporary Migrant Workers in Canada. Invited Chapter in Confronting Labour Inequality in the Time of Covid-19. John Peters and Don Wells (eds). UBC Press.

Binford, L. and McLaughlin, J. (2021). Entrenched Exploitation: Temporary Foreign Agricultural Worker Programs in North America. Handbook on the Human Impact of Agriculture. Harvey James, ed. Edward Elgar Publishing: pp. 256-285.

Côté, D., Dubé, J., & Frozzini, J. (2021). Précarité du travail et inégalités sociales de santé : quelles leçons à tirer de la pandémie de COVID-19. In B. W. White & M. Arsenault (Eds.), L’interculturel en temps de pandémie (pp. 26-31). Laboratoire de recherche en relations interculturelles, Département d'anthropologie, Université de Montréal. http://labrri.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Linterculturel-en-temps-de-pandémie.pdf

Caxaj, C. S. & Cohen, A. (2021b). Relentless Border Walls: Challenges of Providing Services and Supports to Migrant Agricultural Workers in British Columbia. Canadian Ethnic Studies, 53 (2):  41-67. https://doi.org/10.1353/ces.2021.0010

Stephanie Premji, Momtaz Begum, Alex Medley, Ellen MacEachen, et Daniel Côté, «Return-to-Work in a Context of Language Barriers: Comparing Quebec and Ontario Workers’ Compensation Policies and Practices», (2021) Revue Pistes

Stephanie Premji, Momtaz Begum, Alex Medley, Ellen MacEachen, et Daniel Côté. «Le retour au travail dans un contexte de barrières linguistiques : Une étude comparative des politiques et des pratiques d’indemnisation des victimes de lésion professionnelle au Québec et en Ontario», (2021) Revue pistes

Cote, D., Durand, S., MacEachen, E., Majowicz, S., Meyer, S., Huynh, A., Laberge, M. Dube, J. A rapid scoping review of COVID-19 and vulnerable workers: intersecting occupational and public health issues. American Journal of Industrial Medicine, 2021, 64, 551-566.

Côté, D., Gravel, S., Gladu, S., Bakhiyi, B., & Gravel, S. (2021). Worker Health in Formal Electronic Waste Recycling Plants. International Journal of Workplace Health Management, 14(3), 292-309.

Côté, Daniel, Jessica Dubé, Sylvie Gravel, Danielle Gratton, and Bob W. White. 2020. "Cumulative stigma among injured immigrant workers: a qualitative exploratory study in Montreal (Quebec, Canada)."  Disability & Rehabilitation 42 (8):1153-66. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/09638288.2018.1517281.

Caxaj, C. S., Oudshoorn, A., Ford-Gilboe, M., Webster, F., Donelle, L., Forchuk, C., Berman, H. & Smye, V.  (2021). Commentary: Taking a stand to remedy the inadequacies of action on health equity exposed by COVID-19. Canadian Journal of Nursing Leadership, 34(1):20-29.

Colindres, C., Cohen, A., & Caxaj, C. S. (2021). Migrant Agricultural Workers’ Health, Safety and Access to Protections: A Descriptive Survey Identifying Structural Gaps and Vulnerabilities in the Interior of British Columbia, Canada. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(7), 3696. PI/Senior Author [Contribution: 50%; IFR: 2.948]

Senthanar, S., Koehoorn, M. Tamburic, L. Premji S., Bultmann U. McLeod C.B. 2021. Differences in work disability duration for immigrants and Canadian-born workers in British Columbia, Canada. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(22), 11794.

Caxaj, C. S., & Cohen, A. (2020). Emerging best practices for supporting temporary migrant farmworkers in Western Canada. Health & Social Care in the Community 29(1): 1-9.

Caxaj, S., Cohen, A., Buffam, B., & Abe, O. (2020). Borders and boundaries in the lives of migrant agricultural workers: Towards a more equitable health services approach. Witness: The Canadian Journal of Critical Nursing Discourse, 2(2), 92-103

Haley, Ella, Susana Caxaj, Glynis George, Jenna L. Hennebry, Eliseo Martell, and Janet McLaughlin (equal co-authors) (2020). Migrant Farmworkers Face Heightened Vulnerabilities During COVID-19. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development 9(3): 35–39.

Caxaj, S., Cohen, A., & Marsden, S. (2020). Supports for migrant farmworkers: tensions in (in) access and (in) action. International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care 16(4): 557-571.

Côté, D., Dubé, J., & Frozzini, J. (2020). Précarité et inégalités sociales de santé au travail à l'ère de la COVID-19. Nouveaux Cahiers du socialisme (24), 216-220. https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/ncs/2020-n24-ncs05486/94058ac/

Hennebry, J. J. McLaughlin, and A. Weiler (2020). “‘Fresh Food,’ Global Pattern: An International Perspective on Migrant Agricultural Workers: Case Studies from Canada and Spain.” Migrants and Refugees in Times of Crisis. Theodoros Fouskas, ed. European Public Law Association.

Hennebry J. (2020) The Road Taken: Temporary Labour Migration in Canada’s Immigration System. In: Samy Y., Duncan H. (Eds) International Affairs And Canadian Migration Policy. Canada and International Affairs. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. Https://Doi.Org/10.1007/978-3-030-46754-8_9

Hennebry, J.,Celis Parra, D., Daley, R. (2020) “"Neither here, nor there": Migrant rights and realities in Canada's Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program.” In Seasonal Sociology, edited by Tonya Davidson and Odine Park. University of Toronto Press.

Côté, Daniel, Jessica Dubé, and Maude Arsenault. 2020. "L’approche ethnographique : illustration dans un contexte de réadaptation au travail." In Méthodes qualitatives, quantitatives et mixtes dans la recherche en sciences humaines, sociales et de la santé, edited by Marc Corbière and Nadine Larivière, 97-126. Québec, QC: Presses de l'Université du Québec.

Jill Hanley, Sol Park, Sylvie Gravel, Jah-Hon Koo, Loic Malhaire, and Sigalit Gal (2019), Migrant worker strategies in access to health: recognizing agency in a context of constraints. In K. Bruce Newbold and Kathi Wilson’s The Research Agenda for Migration and Health (pp. 67–87). Social and Political Science 2019, DOI: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781786438362.00009

Perras Saint-Jean, G., Chantal Robillard, Janet McLaughlin, and Donald Cole (2019). Gardiennes du secret : pourquoi les intervenantes sont confinées dans le rôle de confidentes des travailleuses étrangères abuses. (Guardians of Secrecy: Why Practitioners are Confined to the Role of Confidants of Abused Foreign Workers.) In Travail, exploitations et servitudes contemporaines dans les Amériques (Work, Operations and Contemporary Servitudes in the Americas), Pantaleon, J & Martig, A. (eds.), University of Rennes Press: 229-256.

Cole, D., McLaughlin, J., Hennebry, J., Tew, M. (2019) Precarious patients: health professionals' perspectives on providing care to Mexican and Jamaican migrants in Canada's Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program. Rural and Remote Health. 19(4):5313. doi: 10.22605/RRH5313.

Weiler, Anelyse and Janet McLaughlin (2019). Listening to migrant workers: should Canada’s Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program be abolished? Dialectical Anthropology. 43, 381-388.

Côté, Daniel, and Jessica Dubé. 2019. "Fatigue de compassion, fatigue de diversité : l’œuf ou la poule?" Periferia 11 (3):163-87. doi: 10.12957/periferia.2019.40407

Leonor Cedillo, Katherine Lippel & Delphine Nakache, « Factors influencing the Health and Safety of Temporary Foreign Workers in Skilled and Low-Skilled Occupations in Canada » (2019) 29 (3) New Solutions: A Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health Policy 422-458, DOI: 10.1177/1048291119867757.

Sylvie Gravel, Katherine Lippel, Daniel Vergara, Jessica Dubé, Jean-François Ducharme et Gabrielle Legendre, «Adapter les mesures préventives de santé et sécurité pour les travailleurs qui cumulent des précarités : les obligations d'équité», (2017) 19 (2) Pistes

On July 26, 2023, Stephanie Mayell presented “Migrant Agricultural Worker Health & Well-being in Ontario,” to the TNO Worker Support Services Steering Committee Meeting.

Mayell, Stephanie, and Janet McLaughlin. (2023). “Occupational Health & Safety, Injury and Compensation among Migrant Agricultural Workers in Ontario: Risks, Vulnerabilities and Opportunities for Reform.” Presented at IDIVOSH Conference 2023, Montreal, Quebec, June 12-14.

Mayell, Stephanie. (2023). “Health and Psychosocial Well-being of Migrant Agricultural Workers in Canada: Challenges, Barriers, and Opportunities for Support.” Paper presented at 25^thMetropolis Canada Conference, Ottawa, Ontario, March 16-18.

On March 18, 2023, Stephanie Mayell participated in a roundtable discussion “The accessibility of programs and services for temporary foreign workers in Canada,” at the 25^th Metropolis Canada Conference in Ottawa, Ontario.

March 16-18, 2023, Stephanie Mayell was chair of a panel “Multi-Sectoral Approaches to Improving Migrant Worker Health and Psychosocial Well-Being in Canada,” at the 25^th Metropolis Canada Conference in Ottawa, Ontario.

On March 15, 2023, Stephanie Mayell gave a presentation “Health Risks, Stress, and Injury among Migrant Agricultural Workers in Ontario,” at the Ontario Brain Association (OBIA) Advisory Council Meeting.

Mayell, Stephanie, and Janet McLaughlin. (2023). “Health Risks, Vulnerabilities, and Barriers to Accessing Health Care, Employment Rights, and Workers’ Compensation for SAWP Workers in Ontario.’ Paper presented at Annual Midwinter Meeting of the Canadian Law and Society Association, Brantford, Ontario, February 2-3.

McLaughlin, Janet, “If you ate today, thank a migrant worker: The role of and conditions facing migrant agricultural workers in Canada” Invited speaker, Third Age Learning (TAL) Series (with Gabriel Allahdua), Virtual Event, February 2, 2023.

On January 27, 2023, Stephanie Mayell and Janet McLaughlin facilitated discussions at the Migrant Justice Summit at University of Guelph, Community Engaged Scholarship Institute (CESI).

Mayell, Stephanie, and Janet McLaughlin. (2022). “Return to Work for Migrant Agricultural Workers: Challenges, Barriers, and Opportunities for Reform.” Paper presented at the Newfoundland and Labrador Dialogue on Return to Work, Windsor, Ontario, December 7.

Premji, S. 2022. The Impacts of Language Barriers on the Return-to-Work Experience. Work Wellness Institute Webinar. Presentation attended by ~150 participants. February 15.

Premji, S. 2022. Return to Work in a Context of Precarious Employment. Thunder Bay and District Injured Workers Support Group. February 22.

Caxaj, C. S. & Tran, M., Mayell, S.  Migrant agricultural workers’ deaths. Preventable tragedies merit proactive solutions. Invited presentation for the Occupational Health Clinic for Ontario Workers. (Pre-recorded for April 24, 2022). Online Presentation.

On April 26, 2022, Stephanie Mayell was a speaker at a webinar hosted by the Occupational Health Clinics for Ontario Workers (OHCOW) entitled: “Supporting the Mental Health of Ontario International Agricultural Workers.”

On April 28, 2022, Steph was a participant at a workshop hosted by the Occupational Health Clinics for Ontario Workers (OHCOW) entitled: “Shining Light on Worker Deaths to Learn and Prevent in Future.”

Premji, S., Begum M, Laila K., Jahangir S., Tahsin F. 2021. The Pandemic Health and Safety Experiences of Bangladeshi Workers in Toronto. Oral presentation, Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association. October 24-27 (online).

Jenna presented “Essential Workers - Exacerbated Risks:  Migrant Agricultural Workers in Canada During the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Immigration Summit, Conference Board of Canada, May 25-27, 2021 in Ottawa, Canada

Jenna presented "Exposed & Exacerbated: Health Inequities and Xenophobia Among Migrant Workers in COVID-19 Pandemic" to the Joe Biden Health Taskforce. U.S. Government, Washington, USA, April 21, 2021.

McLaughlin, Janet and Jenna Hennebry, Panelist/discussant at public screening of Migranta con M de Mamá (Migrant Mother) (~400 participants), Virtual Event, International Migration Research Centre, March 25, 2021.

Premji, S. 2021. Panel presenter. No One Should be Left Behind! South Asian Women’s Rights Organization’ International Women’s Day Event. March 14^th

Premji, S. 2020. Access to Workers’ Compensation and Return to Work in a Context of Language Barriers. Oral presentation at an Internal Plenary of the Ontario Institute for Work & Health. February 25, Toronto.

McLaughlin, J. “Injustices in the Globalized Food System: Migrant Agricultural Work in Canada and Greece”. Presentation (with Reena Kukreja) in the Gender Matters Speaker Series, Department of Gender Studies, Queen’s University, February 3, 2021 (virtual presentation hosted in Kingston, ON).

Caxaj, C. S. Presentation to Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC), Migrant Worker Protections Division. Gaps in Services and Protections for Migrant Agricultural Workers and Implications for Policy and Practice. February 3, 2021.

Hennebry, J. Housing, Healthcare and Income Support for Temporary and Non-Status Migrants, Canadian Council for Refugees consultation, Spring, 2020

Caxaj, C. S. & Cohen, C. S. (May 2020). Migrant agricultural workers’ during Covid-19: Relentless Border Walls as an Illustrative Concept. Latin American Studies Association Conference [virtual format].

Hennebry, J. “Global Insights: COVID-19 and Gender Divides” Balsillie School of International Affairs, June 4, 2020.

Premji, S. 2020. Return-to-Work in Contexts of Language Barriers. Presentation of research recommendations to WSIB administrators. June 22 2020.

Hennebry, J and H.KC “Quarantined! Xenophobia and migrant workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.” International Organization for Migration (IOM), June 25, 2020

McLaughlin, J. Centering Justice in Canada's Food System, World Food Day Forum, October 16 2020, hosted by UNESCO Chai.

Caxaj, C. S. Virtual Meeting - Interior Region. October 28th
Supporting Migrant Workers in BC: Building Resilience for the Future

Caxaj, C. S. Virtual Meeting – North Region. November 3^rd.
Supporting Migrant Workers in BC: Building Resilience for the Future

Mayell, Stephanie, Invited Seminar Speaker. “Essential(ised), invisible, and at risk: The health and well-being of migrant agricultural workers in Canada,” Toronto Undergraduate Geography Society, November 16, 2020.

Caxaj, Hennebry, McLaughlin, et al. Presentation of the Migrant Worker Health Expert Working Group to Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program Annual Contract Negotiations – Mexico and Canada, November 17, 2020.

McLaughlin, Hennebry, Mayell et al. Presentation of the Migrant Worker Health Expert Working Group to Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program Annual Contract Negotiations – Caribbean and Canada, November 23, 2020.

Caxaj, C. S. Cultural Safety: Working with Migrant Agricultural Workers. November 27^th

Caxaj, C. S. Virtual Meeting:  Supporting Migrant Workers in BC: Building Resilience for the Future, Metro Vancouver. December 1^st

Caxaj, C. S. Virtual Meeting: Supporting Migrant Workers in BC: Building Resilience for the Future, Vancouver Island. December 19th.

Janet McLaughlin, Barriers to Access: Workers’ Compensation Challenges for Migrant Agricultural Workers. Migrant Worker Health Forum, Windsor, ON, April 26, 2019.

Mayell, Stephanie. “Stressful Times in Canadian Agriculture: Situating the Mental Health Experiences of Migrant Agricultural Workers.” Paper presented at the 2019 Migrant Farm Worker Health Forum, Windsor, Ontario, April 25-26, 2019

Premji S. 2019. Language Barriers and Workers’ Compensation. Panel presentation, Law Society of Ontario Continuing Professional Development Program (attended by approximately 300 lawyers and paralegals). October 3, Toronto.

Stephanie Premji, “Social and Economic Precarity, Workers’ Compensation and Return to Work among Immigrant Workers” at the Symposium on Return to Work in a Changing World of Work, University of Ottawa, May 16 2019.

Daniel Côté, Mircea Vultur, Sylvie Gravel et Nicolas Bastien, “: Overqualification of immigrant workers and the impact on occupational health and safety: from prevention to rehabilitation” at the Symposium on Return to Work in a Changing World of Work, University of Ottawa, May 16 2019.

Janet McLaughlin and Jenna Hennebry, “Workers’ Compensation and Return to Work Issues for Temporary Foreign Workers” at the Symposium on Return to Work in a Changing World of Work, University of Ottawa, May 16 2019.

Daniel Côté, « ‘Est-ce qu’on n’est pas en train de les estropier davantage?’ : les enjeux de la réadaptation au travail en contexte d’immigration et de diversité ethnoculturelle », XXième Journée en droit social et du travail, UQAM, Montréal, le 15 mars 2019.

Stéphanie Premji, « Les barrières linguistiques rencontrées par les personnes allophones lors du processus de réadaptation à la suite d’une lésion professionnelle », XXième Journée en droit social et du travail, UQAM, Montréal, le 15 mars 2019.