Janet McLaughlin
Associate Professor, Health Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University
Janet McLaughlin is an Associate Professor of Health Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University’s Brantford Campus, and is a Research Associate with the International Migration Research Centre at the Balsillie School of International Affairs. Her current research, with Dr. Margaret Schneider, is investigating the impacts of autism therapy and education services on family stress and well-being in Ontario, using a social determinants of health framework. Another project, with Dr. Jenna Hennebry, is investigating return to work barriers for injured temporary foreign workers in Canada. Past/ongoing projects have investigated access to health care and workers’ compensation for migrant farm workers; gender-based violence against immigrant and migrant women in Canada; sexual and reproductive health of migrant workers; social determinants of health of migrant workers; and the impacts of family separation on migrant workers. McLaughlin's general research interests include issues of global and environmental health, health care access, human rights, food systems, labour, citizenship and transnational migration in the Americas. She is also involved in several community groups. McLaughlin is co-founder of the Migrant Worker Health Project and the Waterloo Region Migrant Workers Interest Group.
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Janet McLaughlin is an Associate Professor of Health Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University’s Brantford Campus, and is a Research Associate with the International Migration Research Centre at the Balsillie School of International Affairs. Her current research, with Dr. Margaret Schneider, is investigating the impacts of autism therapy and education services on family stress and well-being in Ontario, using a social determinants of health framework. Another project, with Dr. Jenna Hennebry, is investigating return to work barriers for injured temporary foreign workers in Canada. Past/ongoing projects have investigated access to health care and workers’ compensation for migrant farm workers; gender-based violence against immigrant and migrant women in Canada; sexual and reproductive health of migrant workers; social determinants of health of migrant workers; and the impacts of family separation on migrant workers. McLaughlin's general research interests include issues of global and environmental health, health care access, human rights, food systems, labour, citizenship and transnational migration in the Americas. She is also involved in several community groups. McLaughlin is co-founder of the Migrant Worker Health Project and the Waterloo Region Migrant Workers Interest Group.
ADDITIONAL TITLES AND AFFILIATIONS
- International Migration Research Centre : Research Associate
The Toronto Star
Imagine that your child cannot look you in the eye, wave hello, or tell you he loves you. He has difficulty sleeping and often wakes in the night crying, but can’t tell you why. When he is sick or in pain, he can’t describe what hurts. He gets upset at seemingly random changes in his environment, sometimes to the point of sobbing uncontrollably, but can’t express the reason. You love him beyond words, yet you feel helpless...
Toronto Star
Supporters of Ned Peart have lost the fight for mandatory inquests into the deaths of migrant farm workers in Ontario. But the Jamaican man, crushed to death in a Brantford tobacco kiln, did not die in vain.
CBC
A Peruvian migrant worker who endured a nightmare after taking a job in Canada is now close to realizing his dream, in what some legal experts are calling a significant move by the government.
Toronto Star
Migrant workers are often unable to access health care or workers’ compensation because health- service providers are unfamiliar with migrants’ rights. A new website launches Monday to address that gap.
Toronto Star
Jeleel Stewart’s left hand was crushed and permanently damaged in a 2008 workplace accident at a Niagara nursery. The migrant farm worker returned to Jamaica but continued his treatment there under Ontario Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) coverage.
CBC News
Parents of children with autism in Ontario are considering legal action after the latest motion to reinstate provincially-funded intensive behaviour intervention therapy for children over age five was rejected at Queen's Park Tuesday...
CNC News
Janet McLaughlin's son Sebastian, who has autism, has been on a waiting list for almost three years to receive Intensive Behavioural Intervention treatment or IBI. But recent changes to autism treatment announced by the Ontario government means Sebastian, who is turning five this summer, and over two thousand other children in the province are now not eligible for this therapy...
The Huffington Post
The Conversation
Books
Research
Published by Focaal
Published by Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ)
Published by University of Toronto
B.A.
in Development StudiesUniversity of Guelph
M.A.
in Human RightsUniversity of Sussex
Ph.D.
in AnthropologyUniversity of Toronto
The Toronto Star
Imagine that your child cannot look you in the eye, wave hello, or tell you he loves you. He has difficulty sleeping and often wakes in the night crying, but can’t tell you why. When he is sick or in pain, he can’t describe what hurts. He gets upset at seemingly random changes in his environment, sometimes to the point of sobbing uncontrollably, but can’t express the reason. You love him beyond words, yet you feel helpless...
Toronto Star
Supporters of Ned Peart have lost the fight for mandatory inquests into the deaths of migrant farm workers in Ontario. But the Jamaican man, crushed to death in a Brantford tobacco kiln, did not die in vain.
CBC
A Peruvian migrant worker who endured a nightmare after taking a job in Canada is now close to realizing his dream, in what some legal experts are calling a significant move by the government.
Toronto Star
Migrant workers are often unable to access health care or workers’ compensation because health- service providers are unfamiliar with migrants’ rights. A new website launches Monday to address that gap.
Toronto Star
Jeleel Stewart’s left hand was crushed and permanently damaged in a 2008 workplace accident at a Niagara nursery. The migrant farm worker returned to Jamaica but continued his treatment there under Ontario Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) coverage.
CBC News
Parents of children with autism in Ontario are considering legal action after the latest motion to reinstate provincially-funded intensive behaviour intervention therapy for children over age five was rejected at Queen's Park Tuesday...
CNC News
Janet McLaughlin's son Sebastian, who has autism, has been on a waiting list for almost three years to receive Intensive Behavioural Intervention treatment or IBI. But recent changes to autism treatment announced by the Ontario government means Sebastian, who is turning five this summer, and over two thousand other children in the province are now not eligible for this therapy...
The Huffington Post
The Conversation
Books
Research
Published by Focaal
Published by Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ)
Published by University of Toronto
B.A.
in Development StudiesUniversity of Guelph
M.A.
in Human RightsUniversity of Sussex
Ph.D.
in AnthropologyUniversity of Toronto
LOCATION
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
LANGUAGES SPOKEN
SPECIALIZED BEATS
EXPERTISE
RECOGNITION
Postdoctoral Fellowship
International Migration Research Centre.