In search of a digital nomad: defining the phenomenon

O Hannonen - Information Technology & Tourism, 2020 - Springer
This paper defines the rapidly emerging mobile lifestyle of digital nomads, who work while
traveling and travel while working. Digital nomadism is driven by important societal changes …

Migrant workers in precarious employment

H Zhang, L Nardon, GJ Sears - Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An …, 2022 - emerald.com
Purpose Various forms of precarious employment create barriers to the integration and
inclusion of migrant workers in receiving countries. The purpose of this paper is to review …

“Can someone help me?” Refugee women's experiences of using settlement agencies to find work in Canada

S Senthanar, E MacEachen, S Premji… - Journal of International …, 2020 - Springer
This article examines refugee women's experience with settlement agencies and their
employment outcomes in Canada. Based on qualitative data, we found that employment …

Occupational health and safety and the mobile workforce: insights from a Canadian research program

B Neis, K Lippel - … Solutions: A Journal of Environmental and …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Globally, employment-related geographical mobility (mobility to and within work) is a
pervasive aspect of work that has potential health and safety implications. As an introduction …

Labour precarity in the visitor economy and decisions to move out

R Valente, B Zaragozí, AP Russo - Tourism Geographies, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
This article examines social disadvantage in tourist sites through the lens of labour
geography by focusing on the residential trajectories of a sample of workers in Barcelona …

Occupational health and safety for migrant domestic workers in Canada: dimensions of (im) mobility

NS Hill, S Dorow, B Barnetson… - … : A Journal of …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
This study examines the occupational health and safety experiences of migrant workers
employed as live-in caregivers in Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada. Interviews with and …

Gender, immigration and commuting in metropolitan Canada

V Preston, S McLafferty… - … voor economische en …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Immigrant workers often commute by transit more than other workers. Although immigrants'
reliance on transit is often attributed to the same factors as women's reliance on transit: low …

Regulating health and safety and workers' compensation in Canada for the mobile workforce: Now you see them, now you don't

K Lippel, D Walters - New Solutions: A Journal of …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Although much research has examined the occupational health and safety (OHS) and
workers' compensation (WC) implications of precarious employment and temporary …

Perceptions and experiences of precarious employment in Canadian libraries: An exploratory study

E Henninger, A Brons, C Riley, C Yin - Partnership: The Canadian …, 2019 - summit.sfu.ca
Precarious employment is a labour practice characterized for employers by flexibility and
economic efficiencies and for workers by vulnerability and uncertainty as to job duration …

Regionalization and recent immigrants' access to jobs: An analysis of commuting in Canadian Metropolitan Areas

V Preston, S McLafferty, M Maciejewska - Geoforum, 2023 - Elsevier
Examining the transportation modes used to commute by the growing numbers of
immigrants locating in medium and small metropolitan areas, this study investigates the …