We encourage you to continue to learn about migrant workers in the Okanagan and Canada. Please navigate the below resources and be sure to contact us at ramaokanagan@gmail.com if you have more to add to the list!
A study of Coroner’s Files of Migrant Agricultural Workers’ Deaths in Ontario
Study findings (2022)
Behind-the-scenes photos of Okanagan vineyards’ Mexican migrant workers
The Globe and Mail
El Contrato
A 45-minute documentary by Min Sook Lee following several Mexican men in their work on a Southern Ontario farm
Intercultural Society of the Central Okanagan
Kelowna Community Resources and Immigrant Services
Central Okanagan Food Policy Council
The S.A.M.E. (Students Against Migrant Exploitation)
Migration is Beautiful Artist Collective
More of the same? Migrant agricultural workers’ health, safety, and legal rights in the COVID-19 context
By Dr. C Susana Caxaj, Amy Cohen, Carlos Colindres
Key Findings and Recommendations from a Study of Coroner’s Files of Migrant Agricultural Workers’ Deaths in Ontario from January 2020 to June 2021
By Dr. C Susana Caxaj with the support of the Migrant Worker Health Expert Working Group (MWH-EWG)
A Model for Managed Migration? Re-examining Best Practices in Canada’s Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program
By Dr. Jenna L. Hennebry and Dr. Kerry Preibisch of Wilfred Laurier and the University of Guelph
Made in Canada: How the Law Constructs Migrant Workers’ Insecurity
A report by Fay Faraday for the Metcalf Foundation
No Thanksgiving for Migrant Workers
The Toronto Star
Housing Regulations and Living Conditions of Mexican Migrant Workers in the Okanagan Valley, B.C.
By Dr. Patricia Tomic, Dr. Ricardo Trumper and Dr. Luis L. M. Aguiar of UBC Okanagan
Permanently Temporary?: Agricultural Migrant Workers and Their Integration in Canada
By Dr. Jenna Hennebry of Wilfred Laurier University
Report on the Status of Migrant Workers in Canada 2011
By the Union of Food and Commercial Workers Canada (UFCW)
A New Era of Seasonal Mexican Migration to Canada
By Ofelia Becerril Quintana for the Canada Foundation of the Americas (FOCAL)