CRS/EUC Seminar: Migrant labour on land and at sea: Labour geographies of global food processing
Thursday November 14, 2024
12:00 – 1:30pm
HNES 141, Keele Campus, York University
This is an in person event.
Refreshments will be served.
Join the Centre for Refugee Studies and the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change for a dialogue on two research projects that examine the conditions of work for migrant and refugee workers in global food production. Both industrial meat processing and the global seafood industry rely on low paid migrant workers to do jobs in industries that are quintessentially 3D – dirty, difficult, and dangerous. This seminar will present findings from two projects addressing the intersection of precarious work and migration, including the crucial role of refugee workers in these industries. Slaughterhouse geographies examines the conditions of work and life, for refugee and migrant workers in Canada’s beef processing industry, which is predominantly located in Southern Alberta. Work at Sea aims to support advocacy for labour justice among migrant workers in global fishing through research that documents workers’ experience and issues, and identifying strategies that have improved working conditions. This seminar will present key findings from the two projects and seek to make connections across these distinct industries and geographies. The conversation will be moderated by Lawrenz Decano, an MA student in Geography.
Presenters:
Bronwyn Bragg, CRS affiliate and Assistant Professor, Geography and Environment, University of Lethbridge
Peter Vandergeest, Professor Emeritus and Senior Scholar, Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change.
Moderator: Lawrenz Decano, MA student, Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change
