We publish reports examining the experiences, challenges, and issues affecting migrant workers across British Columbia, featuring collaborative research created with community groups and academic partners.
Browse our latest research, findings, and recommendations below.
Temporary Foreign Workers in British Columbia’s Agriculture Industry: Learning from Lived Experience
Dec 2025
Ali Bhagat, Kam Phung, Genevieve LeBaron, Marc Calabretta in collaboration with Migrant Workers Centre
A Promise of Protection? An assessment of IRCC decision-making under the VWOWP program
Mar 2022
Amanda Aziz | Migrant Workers Centre
Envisioning Justice for Migrant Workers: A Legal Needs Assessment
Mar 2018
Alexandra Rodgers | Migrant Workers Centre
The Potential of Human Rights Law to Address the Harms of Labour Exploitation and Human Trafficking
Nov 2016
Natalie Drolet, West Coast Domestic Workers’ Association and Bethany Hastie, Peter A. Allard School of Law,
University of British Columbia.
Continuing Legal Education Human Rights Law Conference 2016
An Overview of Canada’s New Caregiver Program: A Shift from Permanence to Precariousness?
2016
Natalie Drolet, West Coast Domestic Workers’ Association
Canada’s Immigration and Citizenship Bulletin, Thomson Reuters Canada
Paying to Get Paid: Report on Unjust Recruitment Practices of Temporary Foreign Workers in British Columbia
Dec 2015
West Coast Domestic Workers’ Association
Caregivers and labour rights in BC: barriers to decent work
Dec 2015
West Coast Domestic Workers’ Association
Labour Trafficking & Migrant Workers in BC
May 2014
West Coast Domestic Workers’ Association
Access to Justice for Migrant Workers in BC
July 2013
West Coast Domestic Workers’ Association