In the News / En Las Noticias

2019

RAMA and Migrants Rights Network supporters protest for enhanced labour rights amongst migrant workers (Kelowna Capital News)

OC and UBC Okanagan research how to better support migrant workers in B.C. (Kelowna Capital News)

Temporary foreign workers a hot topic at Kelowna all-candidates forum (Global News)

2018

Allegations against RAMA sparks concern (Kelowna Capital News)

Okanagan fruit farmers still on alert (Kelowna Capital News)

Okanagan orchardists asked to watch for ‘radical labour activists’ (Kelowna Capital News)

Welcome Migrant Workers in Agriculture at the RAMA BBQ (Hello Kelowna)

BCFGA spreading misinformation, says ‘radical’ group (The Daily Courier)

BC Fruit Growers Association reiterates radical activists warning (Kelowna Now)

Migrant Agricultural Workers Shut Out from Secretive Government Consultations: Call for Permanent Status on Arrival (Migrant Rights Network)

2017

Kelowna council tackles farm worker housing problem (Kelowna Capital News)

Temporary Migrant Farm Workers in BC (Organic Grower Journal for the Certified Organic Associations of BC)

Kelowna Media and RCMP Actions Called ‘Overtly Racist’ by Coalition Group (Kelowna Now)

The “missing” politics of whiteness and rightful presence in the settler colonial city (Millennium Journal)

2016

Organization questions changes in Mexico-Canada affairs

The Okanagan’s most dependable workers arrive for another season

Serious overhaul needed to address multiple human rights issues

Migrant workers facing barriers in South Okanagan

Okanagan migrant justice group wants equality for migrant workers

2015

Harvesting a movement: BC’s migrant farm workers

Open letter in response to missing Mexican migrant workers article

Kelowna media and RCMP actions called ‘overtly racist’ by coalition group

Missing worker mystery stirs up controversy

Missing agricultural workers in Vernon treated like criminals, group claims (CBC News)

Migrant agricultural workers in Vernon treated like criminals, group claims

Temporary foreign workers forced out of workforce by ‘4 in and 4 out’ rule: advocate

2014

International migrants day: Canada’s exclusionary immigration practices have got to go!

BC apology to Chinese community highlights ongoing racism towards migrant workers

Fresh fruit, forgotten labour: What about migrant farmworkers?

Fruits of labour: Migrant farmworkers in the Okanagan Valley

Mexican consulate examining treatment of seasonal workers

2013

Working through the language

Canadian farms importing their workers

New non-profit to advocate for migrant workers

Scholarly articles

Caxaj, S., & Cohen, A. (2019) “I Will Not Leave My Body Here”: Migrant Farmworkers’ Health and Safety Amidst a Climate of Coercion. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health16(15), 2643

Cohen, A. (2019). “Slavery hasn’t ended, it has just become modernized”: Border Imperialism and the Lived Realities of Migrant Farmworkers in British Columbia, CanadaACME An International Journal for Critical Geographies, vol 18, no. 1

Caxaj, S., & Diaz, L. (2018). Migrant workers’(non) belonging in rural British Columbia, Canada: storied experiences of Marginal Living. International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care14(2), 208-220.

Cohen, A., & Caxaj, S. (2018). Bodies and Borders: Migrant Women Farmworkers and the Struggle for Sexual and Reproductive Justice in British Columbia, CanadaAlternate Routes29.

Tedesco, D. (2015). Begin again, return again: The transition narratives and political continuities of urban globalization. International Political Sociology, vol. 9, no. 1, 106-109.

Hjalmarson, E., Bunn, R., Cohen, A., Terbasket, E., & Gahman, L. (2015). Race, food, and borders: Situating migrant struggle in the Okanagan Valley, British Columbia. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, vol. 4, no. 4, 77-82.