Posts by Alicia Massie

About Alicia Massie

Alicia Massie is a Joseph Armand Bombardier Doctoral Scholar and PhD Candidate at the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University. As a feminist political economist, she specializes in policy and economics related primarily to temporary migrant workers in Canada, focusing specifically on migrant care workers. Her extensive work encompasses progressive economic policies throughout the care economy.

Canada’s broken promises to migrant care workers

Jun 18, 2024

By Alicia Massie, Anita Minh and Jennifer E. Shaw

On June 3, 2024, Immigration Minister Marc Miller announced new migrant care worker pilot programs, which take important steps to address some of the concerns raised by workers and advocates. Unfortunately, Canada has a long track record of broken promises to migrant care workers and it is not clear how the new pilot programs would… View Article