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February 2024 Cross-Regional Meeting |
| Dear PRESMA* community partners and collaborators, We hope that you are all staying warm this November. It has been a while since we have connected, and we welcome those partners who have recently joined PRESMA. It is a pleasure to share with you an update on the progress of our research and to invite you to participate in our next virtual cross-regional meeting. Please see below! *PRESMA stands for Partnered Research Examining Services with Migrants in Agriculture |
| Virtual cross-regional meeting in late January or FebruaryWe would like to invite you all to our next cross-regional meeting. At this meeting, we will share our key findings to our study, invite your feedback and direction and offer a space to exchange knowledge across regions and organizations. To find a date and time that works for us all, please fill out this online survey. Full survey link: https://tinyurl.com/presma2023 |
| Project reach We have interviewed over 175 migrant farmworkers over 2 years, and through several activities, reached an additional hundreds of workers for feedback. This year, our focus was on connecting with migrant farmworkers who had faced a specific challenge that required them to reach out for services and support. We will be ending all data collection efforts with migrant workers by the end of November. Thank you to all our partners who supported our recruitment efforts. |
| Ongoing analysis and outputs Manuscript 1. Documenting barriers & possibilities for migrant farmworkers’ support, and its link to their sense of belonging. Specifically, this paper examines the way migrant workers describe support and details the ways that support must be embedded into the structure of temporary migrant worker programs through, for example “language learning, health care, legal aid, and tax and pension information and processing.” We also explore how broader discrimination and exclusion in rural communities are uniquely navigated by this group. Ultimately, we call for policy initiatives that address the root factors that make it difficult for migrant farmworkers to feel included. Manuscript 2. Mapping key dimensions of how supports and services are understood and experienced by migrant farmworkers. This second manuscript will outline three dimensions that characterize strong support provision from migrant farmworkers’ perspectives: political context, accessibility and relevance. We also explore the paradoxical burden and strength of migrant farmworkers’ self-reliance, that both can be protective and a source of strength, but also, put workers’ in greater danger and vulnerability. Through this report, we will be able to both affirm and support organizations’ efforts to provide meaningful and comprehensive support for this population. Manuscript 3. Describing a model for service delivery for migrant farmworkers. When it comes to migrant agricultural workers, what exactly do we mean by ‘multi-sectoral’ and ‘collaborative?’ What services are needed to create a comprehensive support network? In this paper, we will categorize and define the key sectors and actors that have (and others that should) make up a multi-sectoral support model for migrant farmworkers. The degree of alignment, and nuanced contexts that may interfere with the direct application of existing programming models (e.g. settlement models) will be explored to outline unique policy and organizational directions for this group. Additional outputs. We would like to develop brief summaries and reports that might be helpful to you and other organizations. We also may want to explore more creative avenues to keep the conversation going with migrant workers. Please share your ideas on who we should be talking to, what approaches might be best, and what content you would like us to focus on. |
Do you have questions? Concerns? Feedback?Would you like to lend your support in a specific way? We’d love to hear from you! |
C. Susana Caxaj Principal Investigator scaxaj@uwo.ca Kristin Lozanski Niagara Lead klozansk@uwo.ca Glynis George Windsor-Essex Lead ggeorge@uwindsor.ca Stephanie Mayell Haldimand-Norfolk Lead stephanie.mayell@mail.utoronto.ca |
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PRESMA: Partnered Research Evaluating Services with Migrants in Agriculture 