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<p>Migrant workers are among the most precarious, most vulnerable, and most exploited within the Canadian workforce. They lack basic rights and protections, such as rights to unionize, coverage by health and safety legislation, rights to change jobs, and housing rights available to Canadian citizens and landed residents. Temporary migrant workers, and especially those doing farm labor, are the overlooked and ignored bedrock of the Canadian economy. They provide a source of manipulable, highly exploitable, and often abused, labor in a key sector. Despite this their contributions, and their suffering, receive too little attention in public social and political discourse in Canada. That is until quite recently when some higher profile actions have started to shift focus onto temporary foreign workers struggles for rights and recognition. Two class-action lawsuits filed on behalf of migrant workers seek to improve working conditions while offering some redress to workers who have suffered under Canada’s migrant labor policies. In August of 2024, a report by a UN Special Rapporteur slammed the country’s migrant worker programs for creating and maintaining power relationships favoring employers in which workers are subjected to conditions akin to forms of modern slavery.</p>

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Challenging Systemic Racism against Temporary Foreign Workers in Canada

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  • 发表日期：

    2026年2月2日

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  • Jeff Shantz

摘要

Migrant workers are among the most precarious, most vulnerable, and most exploited within the Canadian workforce. They lack basic rights and protections, such as rights to unionize, coverage by health and safety legislation, rights to change jobs, and housing rights available to Canadian citizens and landed residents. Temporary migrant workers, and especially those doing farm labor, are the overlooked and ignored bedrock of the Canadian economy. They provide a source of manipulable, highly exploitable, and often abused, labor in a key sector. Despite this their contributions, and their suffering, receive too little attention in public social and political discourse in Canada. That is until quite recently when some higher profile actions have started to shift focus onto temporary foreign workers struggles for rights and recognition. Two class-action lawsuits filed on behalf of migrant workers seek to improve working conditions while offering some redress to workers who have suffered under Canada’s migrant labor policies. In August of 2024, a report by a UN Special Rapporteur slammed the country’s migrant worker programs for creating and maintaining power relationships favoring employers in which workers are subjected to conditions akin to forms of modern slavery.