Anelyse Weiler
Assistant Professor
Sociology
- Contact:
- Office: COR A363 anelyse@uvic.ca 250-853-3780
- Credentials:
- PhD (Toronto)
- Area of expertise:
- Labour movements, environmental justice, immigration, rural ³Ô¹ÏÍø, food security, and health equity
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Dr. Weiler’s research examines struggles for workers' rights, dignified global migration, and environmental sustainability. Her projects have focused on opportunities to better protect workers from occupational health and safety hazards such as extreme heat, pesticides, and sexual violence. Within this area of study, her research has investigated how both social movements and industry lobbying can shape a broad range of laws and policies, including laws governing animal welfare. Currently, she is examining how trade unions in Canada are grappling with the climate crisis and prospects for good, green jobs.
Alongside her scholarly commitments, Dr. Weiler actively contributes to several non-profit organizations advocating for migrant health, strong employment standards, and thriving ecosystems. She often draws on community-engaged approaches to research and interdisciplinary collaboration, and she works on translating academic insights into forms of knowledge that are relevant to broad public and policy audiences.
Dr. Weiler is available to supervise graduate students in areas including labour movements, political ecology, immigration, food ³Ô¹ÏÍø, animal welfare, and health equity.
Interests
- Occupational health and safety
- Climate change
- Migrant workers
- Political ecology
- Qualitative methods
- Labour movements
Publications
Weiler, A. M., & Zavitz, T. (2024). Nothing to hide: How governments justify the adoption of ag‐gag laws. Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie.
Weiler, A. M., & Caxaj, C. S. (2024). Housing, health equity, and global capitalist power: Migrant farmworkers in Canada. Social Science & Medicine. Online First, 1-11.
Caxaj, C. S., & Weiler, A. (2024). “You’re Just Stuck in a Hole, Really”: Mechanisms of Structural Racism Through Migrant Agricultural Worker Housing in Canada. Qualitative Health Research. Online First.
Caxaj, C. S., Weiler, A. M., & Martyniuk, J. (2024). Housing conditions and health implications for migrant agricultural workers in Canada: A scoping review. Canadian Journal of Nursing Research, 56(1), 16-28.
Weiler, A. M. (2023). Toxic freedom: How middle-class seasonal fruit pickers perceive and manage agrochemical exposures. Environmental Sociology.
Basok, T., Tucker, E., Vosko, L. F., Caxaj, C. S., Hennebry, J., Mayell, S., McLaughlin, J., & Weiler, A. M. (2023). The ‘Contract’ and its Discontents: Can it Address Protection Gaps for Migrant Agricultural Workers in Canada? International Migration.
Weiler, A. M., & Encalada Grez, E. (2022). Rotten asparagus and just-in-time workers: Canadian agricultural industry framing of farm labour and food security during the COVID-19 pandemic. Canadian Food Studies, 9(2), 38-52.
Johnston, J., Weiler, A., & Baumann, S. (2022). The cultural imaginary of ethical meat: A study of producer perceptions. Journal of Rural Studies, 89(4), 186-198.
Weiler, A. M. (2022). Bridging agrarianism: The potential of value‐added craft cider production to support rural livelihoods in the Pacific Northwest. Rural Sociology, 87(1), 44-67.
Weiler, A. M. (2022). Seeing the workers for the trees: exalted and devalued manual labour in the Pacific Northwest craft cider industry. Agriculture and Human Values, 39(1), 65-78.
Weiler, A. M. Sexsmith, K., & Minkoff-Zern, L.-A. (2021). Parallel precarity: a comparison of US and Canadian agricultural guestworker programs. International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food, 26(2), 143-163.
Weiler, A. M., McLaughlin, J., & Cole, D. C. (2017). Food security at whose expense? A critique of the Canadian temporary farm labour migration regime and proposals for change. International Migration, 55(4), 48-63.
Weiler, A. M., Levkoe, C., & Young, C. (2016). Cultivating equitable ground: Community-based participatory research to connect food movements with migrant farmworkers. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems and Community Development, 6(2), 73-87.
Levkoe, C. Z., McClintock, N., Minkoff-Zern, L.-A., Coplen, A. K., Gaddis, J., Lo, J., Tendick-Matesanz, F., & Weiler, A. M. (2016). Forging links between food chain labor activists and academics. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 6(2), 129-142.
Weiler, A. M., Otero, G., & Wittman, H. (2016). Rock Stars and bad apples: Moral economies of alternative food networks and precarious farm work regimes. Antipode, 48(4), 1140-1162.
Weiler, A. M., Hergesheimer, C., Brisbois, B., Wittman, H., Yassi, A., & Spiegel, J. M. (2015). Food sovereignty, food security and health equity: A meta-narrative mapping exercise. Health Policy and Planning, 30(8), 1078-1092.
Hennebry, J., McLaughlin, J. and Weiler, A.M. [Equal authorship]. (2021). "Fresh food, stale schemes: comparing agricultural labour migration in Canada and Spain." In T. Fouskas (ed.), Immigrants, asylum seekers and refugees in times of crises: B. An international handbook on migration, asylum, social integration and exclusion (351-376). European Public Law Organization.
Johnston, J. and Weiler, A.M. (2020). "Eating our way to a sustainable future?" In M. Bell, M. Carolan, K. Legun, & J. Keller (eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Environmental Sociology: Volume II (pp.390-410). Cambridge MA: Cambridge University Press.
Weiler, A.M. (2019). "Whose labor counts as craft? Terroir and farm workers in North American craft cider." In A. Bonanno, K. Sekine and H. Feuer (eds.), The Role and Significance of Geographical Indication as a Tool for the Development and Democratization of Agri-Food. Routledge.
Skov, B., & Weiler, A. M. (2024). . Journal of Interpersonal Relations, Intergroup Relations and Identity.
Dunkerson, A., & Weiler, A. M. (2023). . Canadian Graduate Journal of Sociology & Criminology.
Weiler, A. M. (2022). Photo Essay: Farmworkers, Climate Change, and “Converging Crises”. Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture, 22(1), 44-49.
Weiler, A. M., & McLaughlin, J. (2019). Listening to migrant workers: Should Canada’s Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program be abolished? Dialectical Anthropology, 43, 381–388.
Weiler, A. M. (2018). A food policy for Canada, but not just for Canadians: Reaping justice for migrant farm workers. Canadian Food Studies, 5(4), 279-284.
McLaughlin, J., & Weiler, A. M. (2016). Migrant agricultural workers in local and global contexts: Toward a better life? Journal of Agrarian Change, 17(3), 630-638.
Kostuchuk, J., & Weiler, A. (2024, May 1). May Day 2024: Workers on a warming planet deserve stronger labour protections. The Conversation; Winnipeg Free Press:
Caxaj, C. S., & Weiler, A. M., & Martinez, N. S. (2024). Raising the bar: Migrant agricultural workers' housing in Canada. Project Report and Videos:
Weiler, A., & Caxaj, C. S. (2024, March 18). Housing crisis hitting migrant agricultural workers in Canada. The Hill Times, UVic Social Sciences:
Weiler, A., & Klassen, S. (2023, March 20). Turning up the heat on climate protections for workers. The Hill Times:
Weiler, A., & Fairey, D. (2023, January 26). Will 2023 be the year BC farmworkers finally receive basic minimum wage protections? Policy Note: The Tyee:
Caxaj, C. S., Weiler, A. (2022, 12 July). For migrant farm workers, housing is not just a determinant of health, but a determinant of death. National Post; The Conversation:
Mayell, S., McLaughlin, J., Caxaj, S., Cole, C., Vosko, L. F., Basok, T., & Weiler, A. (2022, 9 March). Ontario must do more to protect migrant workers. Here’s how. TVO:
Weiler, A., & Fairey, D. (2021, 28 May). Opinion: Minimum wage rules should apply across the board. Vancouver Sun:
Faraday, F., Fudge, J., Hanley, J., McLaughlin, J., Ramsaroop, C., Tungohan, E., & Weiler, A. (2021, 24 February). Migrant workers need priority access to the COVID-19 vaccine. Globe & Mail:
Weiler A., Mayell, S., Vosko, L.F., Hennebry, J., & McLaughlin, J. (2020, September 7). Let’s accept migrant farmworkers as members of our food community. Toronto Star:
Weiler, A. M., McLaughlin, J., Caxaj, S., & Cole, D. C. (2020, April 1). Protecting the health and rights of migrant agricultural workers during the COVID-19 outbreak should be a priority. Retrieved April 20, 2020, from
Weiler, A., Thompson, M., & Fairey, D. (2019, 31 August). This Labour Day, fruit pickers in B.C. may be denied minimum wage. Penticton Herald, Kelowna Courier, Policy Note (CCPA BC):
Fairey, D., & Weiler, A. (2018, May 2). Government wrong to exclude farm workers from basic minimum wage protection. Vancouver Sun; Policy Note (CCPA BC):
Weiler, A., & Cohen, A. (2018, May 1). Migrant farm workers vulnerable to sexual violence. The Conversation; Republished in The National Post, Alternet, OHS Canada, Canadian Occupational Safety, NPR Latino USA, The Tyee: