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Janet McLaughlin

Associate Professor, Department of Health Studies; Research Associate, International Migration Research Centre (IMRC); Faculty Member, Social Justice and Community Engagement master’s program; Co-founder and Co-director, 51��ɫ Autism Research Consortium (LARC); Co-founder and co-coordinator, Migrant Worker Health Project

Research / Areas of Expertise

Migrant agricultural workers’ health and safety
Migrant worker health care and workers’ compensation access
Autism policy and service access barriers
Autism caregiver experiences: stress, well-being, and employment
Autism service barriers for newcomer and Indigenous populations

Award Recipient, Leading Women Building Communities Recognition Program

Faculty Merit Award, 51��ɫ

EXTERNAL RESEARCH FUNDING (SELECTED)

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Engaging communities in developing culturally appropriate solutions to autism service disparities, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Partnership Development Grant, 2022-25.

Autism Families in Flux: Challenges with and Impacts of Accessing Supports and Services during COVID-19 and beyond. Private grant donated by The Dare family, in honour of the late Carl M. Dare to 51��ɫ’s Autism Research Consortium, 2020-25.

Improving access to supports and services for families of children with autism, SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant (PEG), 2021-23.

Health Outcomes of Gender-based Violence, Sexual Exploitation and Abuse in Vulnerable Migrations, Canadian Institute for Health Research (CIHR) (co-PI: Chantal Robillard), 2011-14.

Addressing Barriers in Access to Health and Workers’ Compensation Services for Migrant Farm Workers, WSIB Bridging the Gap Program (co-PI Jenna Hennebry), 2011-13.

CO-INVESTIGATOR

Social mobilization as policymaking lever? A trans-Atlantic COVID-19 dialogue on community action and decentralized governance, T-AP Recovery, Renewal and Resilience in a Post-Pandemic World (RRR). PI: Anne-Emanuelle Birn, 2022-25.

Partnered Research Evaluating Services with Migrants in Agriculture (PRESMA): Conditions, Capacities and Possibilities for Effective Support, Services for Migrant Agricultural Workers: A Partnered Research Project, SSHRC Partnership Development Grant, PI: Susana Caxaj, 2022-25.

Policy and Practice in Return to Work after Work Injury: Challenging Circumstances and Innovative Solutions, SSHRC Partnership Grant – Healthy and Productive Work, PI: Katherine Lippel, 2018-24.

COVID-19: Pandemic Survey of Migrant Agricultural Workers in Ontario, SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant, PI: Jenna Hennebry, 2020-24.

Examining Intersecting and Policy Factors Influencing Housing, Safety and Wellbeing of Migrant Agricultural Workers from 2017 - 2020: A Bi-provincial Analysis, SSHRC Insight Grant, PI Susana Caxaj, 2021-24.

COVID-19 Vaccination Decision-Making: Perspectives from Equity-Seeking Groups, Canadian Immunization Research Network (CIRN): COVID-19 Vaccine Readiness Funding Opportunity – funded by CIHR in partnerships with PHAC, PI: Janet Parsons, 2021-23.

Promoting and Protecting Women Migrant Workers’ Labour and Human Rights. United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (Collaborator), PI: Jenna Hennebry, 2014-16.

Poverty and Employment Precarity in Southern Ontario, SSHRC Community University Research Alliances (CURA), PI: Wayne Lewchuk, 2011-16.

Migrant Worker Research Highlights

Basok, T., Ticker, E., Vosko, L., Caxaj, S., Hennebry, J., Mayell, S., McLaughlin, J., and Weiler, A. (2023). International Migration.
Escrig-Pinol, A., Gastaldo, D., Cortinois, A. and McLaughlin, J. (2023). . Social Sciences 12:x.
Caxaj, S., Tran, M., Tew, M., Mayell, S., McLaughlin, J. Rawal, S., Cole, D., Vosko, L. (2022). . International Journal for Equity in Health, 21 (1): 1-17.
Kelly, P., McLaughlin, J., Wells, D. (2022). Disposable People: The Politics of Temporary Migrant Workers in Canada. Chapter in . John Peters and Don Wells, eds., UBC Press: pp. 155-72.
Hennebry, J., McLaughlin, J., and Weiler, A. (2021). Fresh Food, Stale Schemes: Comparing Agricultural Labour Migration in Canada and Spain. Migrants and Refugees in Times of Crisis. Theodoros Fouskas, ed. European Public Law Association: pp. 351-376.
Binford, L. and McLaughlin, J. (2021). Entrenched Exploitation: Temporary Foreign Agricultural Worker Programs in North America. . Harvey James, ed. Edward Elgar Publishing: pp. 256-285.
Haley, E., Caxaj, S., George G., Hennebry, J.L., Martell, E., and McLaughlin, J. (2020). . Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 9(3), 35–39.
Weiler, A. and McLaughlin, J. (2019). Dialectical Anthropology, 43, 381–388.
Cole, D., McLaughlin, J., Hennebry, J. and Tew, M. (2019). Rural and Remote Health, 19(4).
Perras Saint-Jean, G., Robillard, C., McLaughlin, J. and Cole, D. (2019). Gardiennes du secret : pourquoi les intervenantes sont confinées dans le rôle de confidentes des travailleuses étrangères abuses. Travail, exploitations et servitudes contemporaines dans les Amériques, Pantaleon, J & Martig, A. (eds.), University of Rennes Press: pp. 229-256.
McLaughlin, J. and Tew, M. (2018). Migrant Farm Worker Health Care: Unique Strategies for a Unique Population. Neil Arya and Thomas Piggott (eds.), Scholars’ Press: pp. 553-264.
McLaughlin, J., Tew, M., and Huesca, E. (2018). Compounded Vulnerabilities and Creative Strategies: Occupational Health of Temporary Foreign Agricultural Workers. Stephanie Premji, Ed. Fernwood.
Diaz, A., McLaughlin, J., Wells, D. and Lyn, A. (2018). . Norteamérica, 13-1.
Robillard, C., McLaughlin, J., Cole, D. Vasilevska, B. and Gendron, R. (2018). Journal of International Migration and Integration 19 (3): 583-606.
McLaughlin, J. (2017). Working Together to Support Migrant Worker Health,
McLaughlin, J., Wells, D., Díaz Mendiburo, A., Lyn, A. and Vasilevska, B. (2017). Relations Industrielles 72(4) : 682-709.
Weiler, A., McLaughlin, J., and Cole, D. (2017). International Migration 55(4): 48-63.
McLaughlin, J (2017). . Irena Knezevic, Charles Levkoe, Phil Mount, Erin Nelson and Alison Blay-Palmer (eds.), Springer, 23-40.
Hennebry, J. Grass, W. and McLaughlin, J. (2017). . UN Women: United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, pp. 1-114.
McLaughlin, J. and Weiler, A. (2017). Review Essay. Journal of Agrarian Change 17(3) 630-638.
Mayell, S. and McLaughlin, J. (2016). Migrating to Work at What Cost?: The Cumulative Health Consequences of Contemporary Labour Migration. Felicity Thomas (ed.), Edward ElgarPublishing, 230-52.
Diaz, A. and McLaughlin, J. (2016). (Structural Vulnerability and Health among Temporary Agricultural Workers in Canada). Revista Alteridades. 26(51):83-93.
Narushima, M., J. McLaughlin, J. Barett-Greene (2016). Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health. 18(2), 374-81.
Hennebry, J., J. McLaughlin, K. Preibisch (2016). Journal of International Migration and Integration (JIMI); 17(2),521-38.
McLaughlin, J. and J. Hennebry (2015). Managed into the Margins: Examining Citizenship and Human Rights of Migrant Workers in Canada. Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann and Margaret Walton-Roberts (eds). University of Pennsylvania Press.
McLaughlin, J., J. Hennebry and T. Haines (2014). . Pistes: Interdisciplinary Journal of Work and Health 16(2).
Wells, D., J. McLaughlin, A. Lyn, A. Diaz (2014). Just Labour. Vol 22, Autumn.
Orkin, A., M. Lay, J. McLaughlin, M. Schwandt and D. Cole (2014). Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) Open. (2)3: E192-E198.
McLaughlin, J. and J. Hennebry (2013). Pathways to Precarity: Structural Vulnerabilities and Lived Consequences for Migrant Farmworkers in Canada. Luin Goldring and Patricia Landolt (eds.) University of Toronto Press.
McLaughlin, J. (2013). The Hands behind the Harvest: Migrant Workers in Niagara's Wine Industry. . Michael Ripmeester and Phillip Gordon Mackintosh (eds.) 51��ɫ Press.
Hennebry, J. and J. McLaughlin (2012). Legislating Inequality: Canada's Temporary Migrant Worker Program. Christine Hughes and Patti Lenard (eds.) McGill-Queen’s University Press.
Pysklywec, M., J. McLaughlin, M. Tew and T. Haines (2011). . Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) (183:9).
McLaughlin, J. (2011). . Health Policy Research Bulletin, Issue #17: Migration Health.
McLaughlin, J. (2010). " Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology 2010(57): 79-94.
McLaughlin, J. (2009). . The Canadian Foundation for the Americas Labour Mobility and Development Project, Policy Paper #2, October.
McLaughlin, J. (2008). . FOCALPoint: Canada’s Spotlight on the Americas 7(9): December.

Autism Research Highlights

Fong, V.C., McLaughlin, J. and Schneider, M. (2024). Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders. Volume 111, March 2024, 102314.
Casale, L.M., Gentles, S., McLaughlin, J. and Schneider, M. (2023). , PLOS ONE 18(11): e0293656.
Fong, V.C., McLaughlin, J. and Schneider, M. (2023). . Autism Research.
Gentles, S., McLaughlin, J., Schneider, M. (Primary co-authors), Stubbs, A., Lerner, P., Tristani, L., Spoelstra, M., Weiss, J., Lee, V., Georgiades, S., and LeClair, J. (2022). Families in flux: Findings from the 2021 Ontario Autism Caregiver Survey on education, service access and well-being in the context of COVID-19 [Report]. Ontario, Canada: 51��ɫ Autism Research Consortium and Autism Ontario.
Scott, K.E., Krasnodembski, M., Sivapalan, S., Brayton, B., Belanger, N., Gagnon, R., McLaughlin, J., and Lai, J. (2021). . Canadian Journal of Autism Equity, 1(1), 55-65.
Gentles, S. and McLaughlin, J. (2021). , 1(1), 6-8.
McLaughlin, J. and Schneider, M. (2019). Autism Services in Ontario: Impacts on Family and Child Well-being—Research Summary, 51��ɫ Autism Research Consortium Report.

Contact Info:

E: jmclaughlin@wlu.ca

Office location: RCE 242, Brantford campus

Office hours:

By appointment

51��ɫ Autism Research Consortium

Languages spoken: English, Spanish

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Janet McLaughlin

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