Plusieurs membres de l’équipe du LABRRI seront au forum mondial IDIVOSH 2023 : Immigration, diversité de la main-d’œuvre, précarité et situations de vulnérabilité en SST. Ce dernier aura lieu du 12 au 14 juin à Montréal.
Pour consulter le programme, cliquez ici.
Needs and presence of temporary migrant workers in the regions of Quebec: a detailed public data analysis – Jorge Frozzini et Vincent Arnaud
During the current labour shortage, many employers and employer associations are calling for the recruitment of more temporary migrant workers (TMW) in various industries in Quebec. This demand isn’t new. However, the various programs, the needs expressed by employers, and the problems encountered by TMWs remain largely unknown to the public and the municipalities that receive many of these workers. The real number of TMWs by local territorial divisions (MRC and municipalities) is unknown. This makes it difficult to develop welcoming policies or an inclusive framework that tackles the needs of these populations. In this context, the objective of this research is to have more detailed knowledge of the presence of TMWs in Quebec and the needs expressed by employers. To achieve this objective, we conceived a database by aggregating publicly available data from the Open Government Portal and readily available information from federal government agencies. This contribution presents an ongoing statistical portrait of the needs expressed by employers and the presence of TMWs in the Quebec territory by stream of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP), level of competence/education, and by territory from 2017 to 2022. An Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) to summarize the main characteristics of this sample using statistical graphics and maps was conducted with R (statistical open-source software, R Core Team, 2022). This ongoing six-year portrait shows substantial differences between regions and their territories regarding the streams of the TFWP, the occupations and the competencies needed. The data also illustrate the importance of some companies who hire a large number of TMWs in Quebec, the effect of the COVID-19 lockdowns, and variations in the increasing number of Labour Market Impact Assessments (LMIA) filled by employers to obtain permission to hire a TMW. Our analysis shows a disparity between industries/employers and the importance of preparing the local environment (municipalities and their community sector) to respond to the needs of an increasing number of these workers.
How immigrant injured workers in Québec experience their rehabilitation process: preliminary analyses from a life-course perspective – Daniel Côté, Jessica Dubé, Ai-Thuy Huynh, Amélia Léon, Mircea Vultur, Sylvie Gravel, Stéphanie Premji et Michael Flynn
Research problematic: Québec has very few statistical data on immigrant workers (“ IWs ”) who have suffered an occupational injury. However, an exploratory study by the IRSST suggests that IWs may account for up to 80% of the cases accepted for rehabilitation in Montréal. To this day, studies on IWs occupational rehabilitation are relatively few and have mainly focused on personal attributes and conditions despite societal and organizational level determinants (e.g., work environment, health care accessibility, occupational rehabilitation, legal aspects, labour market dynamics). Nevertheless, the cumulative effect of these various determinants, and how one determinant influences another, are poorly documented. Our recent work shows the importance of documenting the multiple transitions and turning points experienced by IWs. Moreover, life-course studies of IWs have so far been carried out in a fragmented manner, focusing in silos on certain dimensions of their lives without, however, integrating them into a dynamic pathway. Objectives: The project has two distinct steps. The aim of the first step (which is currently underway) is to reflect dynamic portraits of IWs who have suffered an occupational injury. These portraits include a detailed description of a possible accumulation of disruptive events, turning points and transitions through their migratory, social and occupational integration process until the injury occurs and the individual goes through a process of compensation and rehabilitation. Second step, which is still to come, is to document how understanding and considering the IWs life-course perspective could help the RTW experts optimize their interventions and strategies despite organizational, structural, and societal barriers they may encounter. Methodology: At the time of submitting this proposal, seven IWs with a work-related injury have been interviewed individually out of a target number of thirty. To achieve the objectives of step 2, four homogeneous focus groups, each consisting of the same occupation or job title, will be conducted with OSH stakeholders (insurers, unions, employer associations, community organizations involved in RTW). The analytical framework is based on the situational analysis approach using biographical matrices. Preliminary results of the first step: Preliminary analysis suggests that certain features of migratory, occupational and social inclusion process (e.g. language barriers, discrimination, stigma, education-job mismatch), are often experienced as transitional phases, turning points and even biographical disruptions. These features, and perhaps even more so the accumulation of such disruptive events or process, have a strong mental, emotional, social impact on IWs life course perspective and possibly the RTW process. We also noted that the interweaving of different administrative systems (health system, workers compensation system, labour standards, migration legal aspects) as well as the involvement of various actors make the RTW process very challenging for IWs.
The role of mistrust on the rehabilitation trajectory of work-injured immigrant workers -Maude Arsenault
In Quebec, a considerable number of workers must take time off work after suffering an occupational injury. In the case of immigrant workers, certain issues may interfere with the rehabilitation process. In particular, workers identify cultural distance as a factor affecting their therapeutic alliance, but also other factors that they say they are unable to identify and that seems to break the bond of trust (Côté et al. 2017). Several studies tend to identify these factors as belonging to the workers’ trajectory, whether it be stigmatization (Côté et al. 2020), overqualification or the feeling of injustice (Gravel et al. 2017), these trajectories are often marked by numerous decisive moments affecting peace of mind and the feeling of well-being. During a research project with work-injured immigrant workers in a rehabilitation clinic, some data suggest that breaks in the workers’ pathways foster the emergence of a feeling of mistrust that can have a direct impact on the therapeutic alliance. Mistrust is mobilized here as a way of relating to the world in order to reduce its complexity. To analyze this, an article by Schehr (2016), based on four ethnographies of mistrust, will be used. The author shows us, among other things, that distrust seems to be rooted in uncertainty (e.g., as to the capacity of individuals to do harm), negative experiences (e.g., betrayal), or even socialization (e.g., professional socialization of agents who analyze asylum applications). Moreover, certain conditions would be particularly favourable to the emergence of mistrust, such as having weak means or feeling vulnerable or powerless in the face of threats. Finally, distrust could lead to behaviors of extreme caution, restraint, attention to detail, search for contradictions and frantic desire to know (Schehr, 2008). This presentation proposes to explore the emergence of mistrust in the journey of immigrant workers and its impact on their rehabilitation process and interactions with the healthcare professionnals. Preliminary analysis will be presented, drawn from over 400 hours of observation in the clinic and 16 interviews.