This session brings together critical perspectives on the intersection of migration, labour, and wellbeing. Presenters explore themes including the housing experiences of temporary foreign workers, barriers to employment for foreign-trained physicians, discourses on voluntary versus forced migration, and the impacts of labour migration on those left behind. The session also examines how internal migration reshapes understandings of work and place. These studies offer grounded insights into the systemic forces shaping migrant labour experiences and reveal how people navigate, resist, and reshape systems of inclusion and exclusion.

• 3:00 PM
  The Housing Experiences of Temporary Foreign Workers (TFWs) in Canada: Examining Issues Through a Systematic Literature Review
  Desmond Oklikah Ofori, Western University

• 3:15 PM
  Barriers and Pathways: The Obstacles Faced by Foreign-Trained Physicians in Securing Employment in Canada
  Fatma Evnur Taran, York University

• 3:30 PM
  Voluntary and Forced Migration Narratives and Myths That Defy the Evolving Realities and Emerging Challenges
  Bahlbi Y. Malk, University of Graz

• 3:45 PM
  International and Internal Migration and the Subjective Wellbeing of Wives Left Behind in Ghana
  Dr. Senanu K. Kutor, Toronto Metropolitan University

• 4:00 PM
  ‘Moving Away from Work’: Internal Migration and Changing Understandings of Work
  Suzanne Mills, McMaster University