Multiple Jeopardy: Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on non-status families and workers in the GTA
This report is about the complex impacts of the pandemic on non-status migrants in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). How did this already highly vulnerable population cope? How did the additional jeopardy of precarious immigration status intersect with low-income work, racialization and gender to shape experiences?
This work is part of the Pandemic Precarities Project – a collaboration between the FCJ Refugee Centre and researchers from York University and the University of Toronto.
The project rested on a collaboration between academic faculty and graduate students, and experienced community workers at the FCJ Refugee Centre. FCJ, as a community organization, had the reputation and track record necessary to recruit study participants. Interviews were carried out by pairs of interviewers, one academic and one FCJ staff member. All parties learned in the process.
The academic research team included Luin Goldring, Patricia Landolt, Sara Hormozinejad, Sarah Marshall, and Jana Borras, Gabriela Beltrán Gonzalez, and Nira Elgueta (also project coordinator). The FCJ research team included Jessie Kohut, Melina Castro Caroprezo, Diana Sánchez, and Arturo Calleja. Kathy Bischoping (York University) provided interviewer training.