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Refereed Books 
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Vosko, L.F., Basok, T., Spring, C. (2023). Transnational Employment Strain in a Global Health Pandemic: Migrant Farmworkers in Canada. London: Palgrave MacMillan. 

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Articles in Scholarly Journals 

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Spring, C. (Forthcoming). Where State Policies Designed to Diversify and Protect International Students Fail: The Relationship between Residency Status, Debt, and Exploitative Post-graduation Employment among Educational Migrants in Canada.  Canadian Ethnic Studies.

 

Spring, C., Toomey, N., Noack, A., Vosko, L. (Forthcoming). Settler Colonialism and Migration Policy in Canada: Critical Approaches to Studying the International Mobility Program.  Studies in Social Justice.

 

Spring, C. & Vosko, L. (Under Review with Canadian Public Policy). The Price of Activation: The Relationship between International Students’ Employment Experiences and Transitions to Permanent Residency in Canada.

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Vosko, L. F., Basok, T., Spring, C., Candiz, G., George, G. (2022). Understanding Migrant Farmworkers’ Health and Well-Being during the Global COVID-19 Pandemic in Canada: Toward a Transnational Conceptualization of Employment Strain. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19. 

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Vosko, L. F., & Spring, C. (2021). COVID-19 Outbreaks in Canada and the Crisis of Migrant Farmworkers’ Social Reproduction: Transnational Labour and the Need for Greater Accountability among Receiving States. Journal of International Migration and Integration, 1-27.

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Spring, C. (2020). Call the Midwife: Privatization and Health Care Reform in an Era of Constrained Public Spending. Canadian Journal of Women and the Law, 32(2), 358-382.

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Policy Papers and Research Reports 

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Vosko, L.F., Basok, T., Spring, C., Candiz, G., George, G. (2022). COVID-19 Among Migrant Farmworkers in Canada: Employment Strain in a Transnational Context. ILO Working Paper (Geneva, ILO).

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Conference Papers (Selected) 

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Spring, C. “Predatory Inclusion among Educational Migrant Workers: Tracing the Links between Residency Status, Debt, and Post-Graduation Employment” Interuniversity Research Centre on Globalization and Work, October 2024.

 

Spring, C. Toomey, N., Noack, A., Vosko, L.F. “Understanding Temporary Labour Migration through a Settler Colonial Lens: A Critical Analysis of Canada's Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program and International Education Strategy.” Interuniversity Research Centre on Globalization and Work, October 2024.

 

Spring, C., Toomey, N., Noack, A., Vosko, L.F. “Settler Colonialism and Migration Policy in Canada: Critical Approaches to Studying the IMP.” [Paper presentation] Canadian Political Science Association, June 2024. (Section canceled due to labour strike and student encampment at McGill University).

 

Spring, C., “Reflecting on Transnational Employment Strain in a Global Health Pandemic: Migrant Farmworkers in Canada.” [Presenter]. Canadian Association of Work and Labour Studies, Toronto, May 2023.

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​​Spring, C., Vosko, L.F. “Training a Cadre of Skilled (Im)migrant Workers? International Students and their Labour Force Experiences in Canada.” [Paper presentation]. Interuniversity Research Centre on Globalization and Work, Online, October 2022

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Spring, C. “Student Loans Made Me Do It: The Impacts of Student Debt on Post-Graduate Employment.” Conference paper, Canadian Sociological Association, Online, May 2022.

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Spring, C., Vosko, L.F. “Training a Cadre of Skilled (Im)migrant Workers? International Students and their Labour Force Experiences in Canada.” Conference paper, Canadian Association for Work & Labour Studies Conference, Online, May 2022.

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Vosko, L., Spring, C. “COVID-19 Outbreaks in Canada and the Crisis of Migrant Farmworkers’ Social Reproduction:  Transnational Labour and the Need for Accountability Among Receiving  States.” Conference paper, Latin American Studies Association, Vancouver Canada, June 2021 (paper was presented online due to COVID-19 travel restrictions).

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Spring, C. “Feminized Privatization and Health Care Reform in an Era of Constrained Public Spending: The Case of Ontario Midwives.” Conference paper, Canadian Political Science Association, University of British Columbia, June 2019.

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Spring, C. “The Politics of (De)valuation in an Era of Constrained Public Spending: The Case of Midwifery.” Conference Paper. Interuniversity Research Centre on Globalization and Work, Montreal, October 2018.

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Spring, C., Adelaar, N., and Blakey, R. “Feminist Publishing Praxis.” Conference Paper, Publishing Feminisms Symposium, Banff Research Centre, May 2015.

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Spring, C. “Feminist Publishing in Precarious Times.” Conference Paper, Women and Gender et Recherches Feministes, Congress, Brock University, May 2014.

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Other Publications 

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Spring, C. (2018). Ontario Midwives Demand Pay Equity. GUTS Magazine. 

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Spring, C. (2014). Office Wives: Unpaid Internships and the Feminization of the Creative Class. GUTS Magazine, 2.

©2023 by Cynthia Spring 

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