2021 Conference: Session 4: Essential Migrant Workers and the Future of Work

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Technological change is likely to have a stronger impact on migrant employment at the lower end of the labour market – among low-skill workers whose work can be replaced by machines. However, the impact differs along the sectors: while farm work may be more readily automated, care work cannot as it requires human skills that robots cannot replace. The pandemic has also shown that those migrants who are considered ‘less skilled’ are in fact indispensable. What lessons can we draw from the pandemic going forward with a view to building a more equitable migration governance regime?

Speakers include:

Margaret Walton-Roberts, Professor of Geography and Environmental Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University
Sabrina Marchetti, Associate Professor of Sociology, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
Philip Martin, Professor Emeritus, Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Davis
Chair: Ito Peng, Canada Research Chair in Global Social Policy, University of Toronto

For more information, please visit: https://www.ryerson.ca/cerc-migration/futureofwork/
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