Freedom Convoy and the Foreign-Born Truckers in Canada

Vibha Bhalla, Bowling Green State University

This paper draws attention to the Freedom Convoy, a nationalist trucker’s movement that emerged against the Canadian government’s Covid vaccination policy. Although ostensibly speaking on behalf of Canadian truckers, the nationalist undertones of this movement, marginalized and at times, employed a racialized discourse which affected an increasingly growing section of the Canadian trucking industry, the foreign-born truckers, primarily from South Asia. This paper draws attention to the tensions between the two groups, and highlights the effects of this movement on foreign-born truckers, and the ways they dealt with hostility and marginalization.

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 Presented in Session 35. Labor Migrations in North America