• BA, International Development Studies (Guelph, 2002).
• MA, Human Rights, (Sussex, 2004).
• PhD, Anthropology (Toronto, 2009).
• Postdoctoral Fellowship, International Migration Research Centre (WLU, 2011).

I am an interdisciplinary scholar trained in medical anthropology, with interests in the areas of global and environmental health, food systems, labour, social justice, citizenship and transnational migration. My research projects have investigated various aspects of migrant workers’ health, rights and well-being, including: access to health care and workers’ compensation; women’s experiences of gender-based violence; occupational, mental, sexual and reproductive health; social determinants of health; and the impacts of separation on migrant families. Although I have conducted research with various migrant groups, I have primarily focused on temporary foreign workers from Mexico and Jamaica who labour in Ontario agriculture. I am co-founder of the Migrant Worker Health Project, www.migrantworkerhealth.ca, which promotes accessible health care for migrant workers. Currently, I am developing an emerging research area on how families of children with autism navigate various therapeutic approaches, and how families’ socioeconomic status may influence treatment outcomes.

I am willing to supervise students in areas related to migrant workers’ rights and health, and autism-related projects.

• McLaughlin, Janet (2017), Strengthening the Backbone: Local Food, Foreign Labour and Social Justice. Nourishing Communities: From Fractured Food Systems to Transformative Pathways. Irena Knezevic, Charles Levkoe, Phil Mount, Erin Nelson and Alison Blay-Palmer (eds.), Springer, 23-40.
• Hennebry, Jenna, Will Grass and Janet McLaughlin (2017). Women Migrant Workers’ Journey through the Margins: Labour, Migration and Trafficking. UN Women: United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, pp. 1-114.
• McLaughlin, Janet and Anelyse Weiler (2017). Migrant Agricultural Workers in Local and Global Contexts: Toward a Better Life? Review Essay. Journal of Agrarian Change 17(3) 630-638.
• Mayell, Stephanie and Janet McLaughlin (2016). Migrating to Work at What Cost?: The Cumulative Health Consequences of Contemporary Labour Migration. Handbook of Migration and Health, Felicity Thomas (ed.), Edward ElgarPublishing, 230-52.
• Diaz, Aaraon and Janet McLaughlin (2016). Vulnerabilidad Estructural y Salud en los Trabajadores Agrícolas Temporales en Canadá (Structural Vulnerability and Health among Temporary Agricultural Workers in Canada). Revista Alteridades. 26(51):83-93.
• McLaughlin, J. and J. Hennebry (2015). Managed into the Margins: Examining Citizenship and Human Rights of Migrant Workers in Canada. Chapter in The Human Right to Citizenship: A Slippery Concept. Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann and Margaret Walton-Roberts (eds). University of Pennsylvania Press.
• Narushima, M., J. McLaughlin, J. Barett-Greene (2015). Needs and Risks in Sexual Health among Temporary Foreign Migrant Farmworkers in Canada: A Pilot Study with Mexican and Caribbean Workers. Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health. (DOI) 10.1007/s10903-015-0189-x.
• Hennebry, J., J. McLaughlin, K. Preibisch (2015). ‘Out of the Loop’: (In)access to Health Care for Migrant Workers in Canada. Journal of International Migration and Integration (JIMI); DOI: 10.1007/s12134-015-0417-1.
• McLaughlin, J., J. Hennebry and T. Haines (2014). Paper versus Practice: Occupational Health and Safety Protections and Realities for Temporary Foreign Agricultural Workers in Ontario. Pistes: Interdisciplinary Journal of Work and Health 16(2).
• Wells, D., J. McLaughlin, A. Lyn, A. Diaz (2014). Sustaining North-South Migrant Precarity: Remittances and Transnational Families in Canada’s Seasonal Agricultural Program. Just Labour. Vol 22, Autumn.
• Orkin, A., M. Lay, J. McLaughlin, M. Schwandt and D. Cole (2014). Medical Repatriation of Migrant Farm Workers in Ontario: Coding and Descriptive Analysis. Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) Open. July 22, vol. 2 no. 3 E192-E198.
• McLaughlin, J. and J. Hennebry (2013). 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.
• McLaughlin, J. (2013). The Hands behind the Harvest: Migrant Workers in Niagara's Wine Industry. Chapter in The World of Niagara Wine. Michael Ripmeester and Phillip Gordon Mackintosh (eds.) Wilfrid Laurier University 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) (183:9).
• McLaughlin, J. (2011). Determinants of Health of Migrant Farm Workers in Canada. Health Policy Research Bulletin, Issue #17: Migration Health.
• 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. (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.

• Sept. 14, 2016, D’Amato: It’s time to stop abuse of temporary farm workers. The Record.
• Aug. 9, 2016, They read my entire op-ed in the debate. ExpertWomen.ca.
• June 29, 2016, D'Amato: Parents of children with autism will not be pushed around again. The Record.
• April 30, 2015, Migrant worker crash survivor Juan Ariza closer to residency. CBC News online.
• Oct. 4, 2014, 'Medical repatriation' puts sick, injured migrant farm workers out of sight and mind. Toronto Star.
• April 11, 2014, Lose your health, lose your job. St. Catharines Standard.
• April 3, 2014, HNHB LHIN Funds Migrant Agricultural Health Services. Niagara This Week.
• April 1, 2014, Health Funding Aimed at Migrant Workers, Brantford Expositor.
• Dec. 3, 2012, Migrant Workers Face Many Challenges, says Speaker, The Gazette.
• Oct. 29, 2012, Health Care Hope for Migrant Workers, Brantford Expositor.
• Oct. 28, 2012, Migrant workers to get health-care boost from website, Toronto Star.
• July 21, 2012, D’Amato: Let’s examine the dark, difficult world of migrant workers, The Record.
• July 2, 2012, Ontario’s injured migrant workers lose out on WSIB benefits, critics charge, Toronto Star.
• Feb. 23, 2012, Needed Health For Migrant Workers, The Record.
• Feb. 7, 2012, More concern for migrant workers needed, scholar says, The Record.

• McLaughlin, Janet, Don Wells, Aaraon Diaz, Andre Lyn (2016). Seasonal Agricultural Workers Deserve Right To Call Canada Home. Huffington Post, Sept. 27.
• McLaughlin, Janet (2016). How Migrant Dreams Reveals the Dark Side of Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program. TV Ontario (TVO), Commentary, Sept. 12.
• McLaughlin, Janet (2016). Canada's Migrant Agricultural Workers Deserve Full and Equal Rights. Here's Why. TV Ontario (TVO), Commentary, June 16.