The cost of your organic blueberries: A look on how vulnerable migrant workers in Canada are being impacted during the COVID-19 pandemic

Abstract

<p>The media has covered the working conditions of Migrant Workers in Canada during the Covid-19 pandemic, seemingly attentive to the temporary scarcity of food; this scarcity seems to have made people more aware of the food supply chain, and thus brings attention to an overlooked group of people, Migrant Workers. Using text-based public data this MRP seeks to answer the following question: How social actors are represented in the media and how those representations reflect the federal government policy and the experiences of the Migrant Workers? The research is conducted through a Critical Race Theory framework lens that will inform the analysis and discussion of this paper. The methodology chosen to discuss the representation of the social actors in the media is the Critical Discourse Analysis approach focusing on the representation of Social Actors as suggested by van Leeuwen (2008).</p>