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Will Canada give its foreign essential workers their rights?

Canada has the opportunity to live up to its values of human rights, dignity, fairness, and justice. Will it take it?

By Usha George
Will Canada give its foreign essential workers their rights?
Healthcare workers at a COVID-19 testing center in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. 24 Septembre 2020 | Picture by Liang Sen/Xinhua News Agency/PA Images. All rights reserved
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With COVID-19 disrupting travel, shutting borders, and redefining what is essential work, Pandemic Borders explores what international migration will look like after the pandemic, in this series titled #MigrantFutures 

There are two categories of workers in Canada who, through the bureaucratic disentitlement of the immigration processing system are defined as temporary and non-status/undocumented. Yet, the work they do is neither temporary nor superfluous.

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