Claiming Rights to Workplace Safety: Latin American Immigrant Workers in Southwestern Ontario
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Drawing on the studies of citizenship practices and health and safety literature, this paper explores the reporting of workplace injuries and hazards among Latin American immigrants in Southwestern Ontario. The paper examines how (under-)reporting is shaped by three conditions: the knowledge of workers’ rights, job (in)security, and ethnic identities. Recognizing knowledge as a significant factor which enables or constrains the capacity to claim one’s citizenship rights, we demonstrate that even when Latin American immigrant workers develop a good understanding of their rights, many are still unable to assert them. We argue that this lack of rights access reflects the intersection of two relevant factors – workplace (in)security and ethnic and immigrant identities – which discourage their reporting. In particular, we demonstrate that since Latin American immigrants often find themselves in subordinate positions in the Canadian labour market, they choose not to report injuries and unsafe working environments for fear of discipline and reprisals. In addition, immigrant, regional, ethnic, and home country identities, all of which can limit or contradict a full sense of citizenship, appear to exert some influence on the way workers understand their workplace rights. The paper is based on 44 in-depth interviews conducted with Latin American immigrants in 2010. Cet article analyse les déclarations sur les dangers et les accidents dans le milieu du travail parmi les immigrants latino-américains du sud-ouest de l’Ontario, en s’appuyant sur les études des pratiques citoyennes et sur la bibliographie dans le domaine de la santé et la sécurité. L’article examine la manière dont ces déclarations sont influencées par trois facteurs : la connaissance des droits des travailleurs, la sécurité d’emploi et les identités ethniques. Bien que la connaissance soit un facteur significatif qui favorise ou empêche la capacité d’affirmer ses droits de citoyenneté, les auteurs démontrent que, même quand les travailleurs migrants d’origine latino-américaine développent une bonne compréhension de leurs droits, beaucoup d’entre eux ont de la difficulté à les exercer. Les auteurs expliquent que ce manque d’accès aux droits reflète l’intersection de deux facteurs importants – l’insécurité dans le lieu de travail et les identités ethniques et immigrantes – qui découragent leur exercice. En particulier, on démontre que, du fait que les immigrants latinoaméricains se trouvent souvent dans des positions subordonnée dans le marché du travail canadien, ils choisissent de ne pas déclarer les accidents et les conditions dangereuses des milieux professionnels en raison de la crainte des sanctions. Aussi, les identités immigrantes, régionales, ethniques ou du pays d’origine, toutes lesquelles peuvent limiter ou contredire un sens plein de la citoyenneté, semblent avoir une influence sur la façon dont les travailleurs comprennent leurs droits. L’article porte sur 44 entrevues en profondeur réalisées auprès d’immigrants latino-américains en 2010.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.013 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".