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ArticleJournal of occupational rehabilitation2026

"He was Threatened and Told to Cooperate": Immigrant Worker Experiences with the Workers' Compensation System in the Canadian Context.

Sonja Senthanar, Bahar Ahmadi, Gillian Creese, Suhail Marino, Christopher B McLeod, Mieke Koehoorn

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Sonja SenthanarSchool of Health Sciences, The University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, BC, V2N 4Z9, Canada. senthanar@unbc.ca.
Bahar AhmadiSchool of Nursing, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Gillian CreeseDepartment of Sociology, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Suhail MarinoSchool of Population and Public Health, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Christopher B McLeodSchool of Population and Public Health, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Mieke KoehoornSchool of Population and Public Health, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

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Michael Smith Health Research BC RT-2021-1760WorkSafeBC RS2021-RM04
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Abstract

purposeTo understand immigrant workers' experiences when navigating the workers' compensation system for access to benefits following a work injury or illness.

methodsInterviews were conducted with 17 injured immigrant workers recruited in British Columbia through partnerships with settlement organizations, social media and professional networks. A situational analysis approach was used to analyze interview data and to identify contextual reasons for immigrant workers' experience with the workers' compensation system.

findingsThe findings describe a tension between how the workers' compensation system is intended to work and how injured immigrant workers experienced the system. Workers described challenges with accessing and communicating with their case managers for timely access to benefits, work accommodation that did not align with their needs and disrupted their rehabilitation, and complicated claim trajectories stemming from perceptions of procedural unfairness. Immigrant workers described how these experiences were perpetuated by their different contexts including language barriers, unfamiliarity with the workers' compensation system, and their identity as immigrant workers.

conclusionThis study identifies contextual factors for the experiences of immigrant workers, within the Canadian context, for consideration by workers' compensation system in the management of injury and illness to reduce inequities where they may exist.

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Emigrants and ImmigrantsOccupational InjuriesWorkers' CompensationAdultBritish ColumbiaCommunication BarriersFemaleHumansInterviews as TopicMaleMiddle AgedQualitative ResearchReturn to WorkBritish ColumbiaImmigrationReturn to workWork disabilityWorkers’ compensation system

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