The health of temporary foreign workers in Canada: A scoping review
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Objectives Temporary foreign workers contribute to economic prosperity in Canada, but they experience forms of structural inequities and have minimal rights, which can contribute to their ill health. The objective of this scoping review is to examine the extent, range and nature of the Canadian literature on the health of temporary foreign workers and their families in Canada.Methods The review was guided by Arksey and O'Malley's five stages for conducting a scoping review. We performed a comprehensive search of seven databases, which revealed 994 studies. In total, 10 published research papers, which focused exclusively on the health of temporary foreign workers in Canada, were included in the study; these 10 papers represented the findings from 9 studies.Synthesis The majority of the studies involved seasonal agricultural workers in the province of Ontario (n = 8). Major health issues of temporary foreign workers included mental health, occupational health, poor housing and sanitation, and barriers to accessing health care, including fear of deportation and language barriers. These health issues are highly shaped by temporary foreign workers' precarious immigration status in Canada.Conclusion Findings from this study demonstrate the need to reduce barriers to health care and to conduct more research on other groups of temporary foreign workers, outside the agricultural sector.
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Migrant live-in caregivers in Canada experience multiple barriers in accessing mental health services due to long work hours, limited knowledge of health resources, precarious employment, and immigration status.
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The Results section reports that temporary foreign workers face health-care access barriers including limited knowledge of available care and fear of deportation; it also identifies fear of repatriation as a barrier to seeking help for mental health symptoms. The Discussion notes that work shifts can hamper access to health care. These findings are largely about temporary foreign workers, particularly farm workers, and do not establish the claimed combination of barriers specifically for live-in caregivers seeking mental health services. Page numbers were not provided for these passages. (LLM, conf=0.86)
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- Authors
- Salami, B., Meharali, S., & Salami, A.
- Affiliations
- University of Alberta (CA)
- Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (NG)
- Corresponding author
- Salami, Bukola
- ORCID
- Salami, Bukola
- Venue
- Canadian Journal of Public Health
- Published
- 2015-11
- Volume
- 106
- Issue
- 8
- Pages
- e546-e554
- ISSN
- 0008-4263 (ISSN-L)
- 1920-7476
- PMC
- PMC6972066
- OpenAlex
- W2299896402
- Cited by
- 69
- References
- 35
- Citations by year
- 2026: 10 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 7 · 2023: 11 · 2022: 6 · 2021: 10 · 2020: 10 · 2019: 4 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 2
- FWCI
- 0.67
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Canadian Journal of Public Health (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- University of Alberta
- Killam Trusts
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Migration, Identity, and Health
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Migration, Health and Trauma
- Social Sciences › Health › Migration, Racism, and Human Rights
- Keywords
- temporary foreign workers, migrant health, seasonal agricultural workers, mental health, occupational health, housing and sanitation, barriers to care, fear of deportation, language barriers, precarious immigration status, structural inequality
- MeSH terms
- Canada, Health Status, Humans, Transients and Migrants
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