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Dr. Janet McLaughlin

Assistant Professor, Health Studies; Research Associate, International Migration Research Centre (IMRC), WLU

Contact Information
Email: jmclaughlin@wlu.ca
Phone: 519-756-8228 (WLU - Brantford) ext.5568   |  lab 519.884.1970 ext.4170
Other Phone: 226-772-3130 IMRC
Fax: 519-725-1342
Office Location: RCE 242/IMRC - BSIA 239, Waterloo
Office Hours: Thursdays 2-3pm (Winter 2013)
Languages Spoken

English
Spanish

Academic Background

BA, International Development Studies (Guelph, 2002)

MA, Human Rights, (Sussex, 2004)

PhD, Anthropology (Toronto, 2009)

Postdoctoral Fellowship, International Migration Research Centre (WLU, 2011)

Biography

Janet McLaughlin is an Assistant Professor of Health Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University’s Brantford Campus, and is a Research Associate with the International Migration Research Centre. Her current research projects investigate access to health care and workers’ compensation for migrant farm workers; gender-based violence against immigrant and migrant women in Canada; social determinants of health among migrant workers; and the impacts of family separation on migrant workers. Her general research interests include issues of global and environmental health, health care access, human rights, food systems, labour, citizenship and transnational migration in the Americas. Dr. McLaughlin is also involved in several community groups. She is co-founder of the Migrant Worker Health Project <www.migrantworkerhealth.ca> and the Waterloo Region Migrant Workers Interest Group.
In the News

The Star:

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/1220483--ontario-s-injured-migrant-workers-lose-out-on-wsib-benefits-critics-charge

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/1278848--migrant-workers-to-get-health-care-boost-from-website

CBC:

http://www.cbc.ca/ontariotoday/2012/06/11/june-11-12-temporary-foreign-workers-in-ontario/

CTV:

http://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/provincewide-sunday-april-15-1.796427

http://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/video?playlistId=1.1024271

The Record:

http://www.therecord.com/opinion/editorial/article/675353--needed-help-for-migrant-workers

http://www.therecord.com/opinion/columns/article/765382--d-amato-let-s-examine-the-dark-difficult-world-of-migrant-workers

http://www.therecord.com/news/local/article/667445--more-concern-for-migrant-workers-needed-scholar-says

Others:

www.brantfordexpositor.ca/.../health-care-hope-for-migrant-workers

http://www.southwesternontario.ca/community/migrant-workers-face-many-challenges-says-speaker/

http://www.wlu.ca/documents/47083/Survey_identifies_risks_faced_by_Ontarios_migrant_workers_June_7_2011zmurji_20110607_0909_4tru_1.pdf

http://www.wrfoodsystem.ca/blog/2012/02/22/a-more-inclusive-community-for-migrant-workers

Additional Information

Some recent publications:

McLaughlin, J. and J. Hennebry. 2012. Pathways to Precarity: Structural Vulnerabilities and Lived Consequences for Migrant Farmworkers in Canada. Chapter in Producing and Negotiating non-Citizenship: Precarious Legal Status in Canada.  Luin Goldring and Patricia Landolt (eds.) University of Toronto Press.

Hennebry, J. and J. McLaughlin. 2012. The Exception that Proves the Rule: Structural Vulnerability, Health Risks and Consequences for Temporary Migrant Farmworkers in Canada. Chapter in Legislating Inequality: Canada's Temporary Migrant Worker Program. Christine Hughes and Patti Lenard (eds.) McGill-Queen’s University Press.

Pysklywec, M., J. McLaughlin, M. Tew and T. Haines. 2011. Doctors Within Borders: Meeting the Health Care Needs of Migrant Farm Workers in Canada.  Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) (April).

McLaughlin, J. 2011. Research Spotlight: Health of Migrant Farm Workers in Canada. Health Policy Research Bulletin, Issue #17: Migration Health (January).

McLaughlin, J. 2010. "Classifying the "ideal migrant worker": Mexican and Jamaican transnational farmworkers in Canada." Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology 2010(57): 79-94.

McLaughlin, J. 2009. Migration and Health: Implications for Development. The Canadian Foundation for the Americas Labour Mobility and Development Project, Policy Paper #2, October.

McLaughlin, J. 2009. Social Determinants of Health of Migrant Farm Workers in Canada. Report Commissioned by the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), March 31.

McLaughlin, J. 2008. Gender, Health and Mobility: Health Concerns of Women Migrant Farm Workers in Canada. FOCALPoint: Canada’s Spotlight on the Americas 7(9): December.

McLaughlin, J. 2007. Falling through the Cracks: Seasonal Foreign Farm Workers’ Health and Compensation across Borders. The Industrial Accident  Victims Group of Ontario (IAVGO)Reporting Service 21(1): October.