Writing from our researchers this year

From housing to poverty and affordability to precarious work, climate action and public transit, our researchers wrote on these issues and more in 2024.

Precarious work, and the impacts of precarity on the lives of British Columbians and temporary foreign workers, is the focus of the Understanding Precarity project co-directed by CCPA-BC and was addressed by a number of researchers, including:

A paradox in COVID-19 pandemic recovery: Increased precarity of women hotel workers in British Columbia
By Alice Mũrage, Michelle Travis and Veronique Sioufi

Addressing the racism of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program
By Veronique Sioufi

Exploitable and deportable by design: Why migrant workers’ housing is harmful to their health
By Anelyse Weiler and C. Susana Caxaj

Canada’s broken promises to migrant care workers
By Alicia Massie, Anita Minh and Jennifer E. Shaw

New labour legislation to continue gig worker precarity
By David Fairey and Pamela Charron

Topics: Employment & labour, Immigrants & refugees, Poverty, inequality & welfare, Racism & racial justice, UP–BC