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COVID-19 violence and the structural determinants of death: Canada's seasonal agricultural worker programme.
Lee, Rachel Seungyun; Collins, Kimberlee; Perez-Brumer, Amaya.
  • Lee RS; Division of Social and Behavioural Health, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
  • Collins K; Division of Social and Behavioural Health, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
  • Perez-Brumer A; Division of Social and Behavioural Health, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Glob Public Health ; 17(5): 784-793, 2022 05.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1758549
ABSTRACT
The Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP) is a managed migration programme that aims to fill labour shortages in Canada's agricultural industry with Black and Brown workers from the global South. For decades, migrant workers, scholars, and advocate groups have called for fundamental changes to address power imbalances produced by the design of the SAWP. The continued operation of the SAWP during the COVID-19 pandemic has intensified the underlying structural violence that migrant labourers experience. Analysing the SAWP as a case study in how globalised labour processes dehumanise and make workers disposable, we argue that it is one component in a web of social and structural factors rooted in colonialism and racial capitalism, constituting the structural determinants of death. Whereas the structural determinants of health point to health 'inequities' and 'disparities', we advance the concept of structural determinants of death to politicise the numerous and multidimensional forms of violence embedded within state policy and to shed light on their beneficiaries. In doing so, we detail how policies can diminish the agency necessary to avoid death in deadly conditions and, specifically, draw attention to the preventable suffering and death perpetuated by the SAWP.
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Full text: Available Collection: International databases Database: MEDLINE Main subject: Farmers / COVID-19 Type of study: Experimental Studies / Observational study / Randomized controlled trials Limits: Humans Country/Region as subject: North America Language: English Journal: Glob Public Health Journal subject: Public Health Year: 2022 Document Type: Article Affiliation country: 17441692.2022.2053735

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Full text: Available Collection: International databases Database: MEDLINE Main subject: Farmers / COVID-19 Type of study: Experimental Studies / Observational study / Randomized controlled trials Limits: Humans Country/Region as subject: North America Language: English Journal: Glob Public Health Journal subject: Public Health Year: 2022 Document Type: Article Affiliation country: 17441692.2022.2053735