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Disrupting for safe and dignified migrant farmworker housing
How can public health work with migrant farmworkers to ensure healthy and just housing conditions? Listen to this episode to learn about how our current system allows for unsafe housing conditions for migrant farmworkers. Kit Andres, long-time organizer with Migrant Workers Alliance for Change, shares recommendations developed by migrants themselves and opportunities for public health to be part of the solution.
Episode Guest: Kit Andres is a farmworker organizer with Migrant Workers Alliance for Change, which serves as secretariat for the Migrant Rights Network, the country’s largest migrant-led coalition. Kit is a 3rd generation white settler in the Niagara region of Dish with One Spoon treaty territory. As a citizen worker, they are united with their migrant, refugee, and undocumented neighbours to win full rights, dignity, and liberation for all.
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Episode Credits:
This episode was produced by Rebecca Cheff and Pemma Muzumdar. Mind the Disruption is hosted by Pemma Muzumdar and led by Rebecca Cheff, with technical production and original music by Chris Perry. Promotion by Caralyn Vossen (NCCDH). Artwork by comet art + design. Special thanks to Bernice Yanful and Carolina Jimenez for contributing to the development of this season. Mind the Disruption is a podcast by the National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health. NCCDH is hosted by St. Francis Xavier University and funded by the Public Health Agency of Canada. The views expressed herein do not necessarily represent those of the PHAC.
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By National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of HealthHow can public health work with migrant farmworkers to ensure healthy and just housing conditions? Listen to this episode to learn about how our current system allows for unsafe housing conditions for migrant farmworkers. Kit Andres, long-time organizer with Migrant Workers Alliance for Change, shares recommendations developed by migrants themselves and opportunities for public health to be part of the solution.
Episode Guest: Kit Andres is a farmworker organizer with Migrant Workers Alliance for Change, which serves as secretariat for the Migrant Rights Network, the country’s largest migrant-led coalition. Kit is a 3rd generation white settler in the Niagara region of Dish with One Spoon treaty territory. As a citizen worker, they are united with their migrant, refugee, and undocumented neighbours to win full rights, dignity, and liberation for all.
Learn more:
Episode Credits:
This episode was produced by Rebecca Cheff and Pemma Muzumdar. Mind the Disruption is hosted by Pemma Muzumdar and led by Rebecca Cheff, with technical production and original music by Chris Perry. Promotion by Caralyn Vossen (NCCDH). Artwork by comet art + design. Special thanks to Bernice Yanful and Carolina Jimenez for contributing to the development of this season. Mind the Disruption is a podcast by the National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health. NCCDH is hosted by St. Francis Xavier University and funded by the Public Health Agency of Canada. The views expressed herein do not necessarily represent those of the PHAC.