Women and Precarious Work

This project sought to document the experiences of recent immigrant women engaged in precarious work during and following the COVID-19 pandemic as a means to highlight the multiple inequities that structure their risk to infection as well as social and economic insecurity, and to inform equity-based policy responses. It included three phases: 1) advancing intersectional mixed-methods approaches to understanding social and health inequities during health crisis; 2) research with recent immigrant women working in the food and accommodation sector between 2020 and 2021; 3) research with hotel workers, with a particular focus on the COVID-19 recovery phase.

PIPPS Team: Julia Smith, Alice Mũrage, Alexandra Selinger

Partners: Canadian Institutes for Health Research, Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives, UNITE HERE Local 40

Outputs: 

• A paradox in COVID-19 pandemic recovery

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