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Workplace Challenges and Responses to Covid-19 among Migrant Farmworkers

Farm labor is precarious work, reflecting both the vulnerabilities of migrant farmworkers and the nature of farms as workplaces. Public regulators rarely enforce labor standards on farms, and labor unions are uncommon. Covid-19 exacerbates these risks because farmworkers labor, and often live, in conditions that make social distancing difficult. Our proposed research asks how migrant …

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Responses to and Impact of Lockdown Measures on Covid-19 among Self-Employees in the Informal Sector in Ibadan, Nigeria

In March 2020, the Oyo state government of Nigeria introduced lockdowns measures including stay-at-home orders, closure of markets and schools, and curfew to control further spread of Covid-19 in the state. Although all citizens are affected by the lockdown measures, those working in the informal sector of the economy, who own small businesses and earn …

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