Impacts of COVID-19 on forestry migrant workers in the Southern United States

Manuja Jayasundara, Carolina Berget and Puneet Dwivedi

Forest Policy and Economics, 2025, vol. 172, issue C

Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted many aspects of life and affected numerous sectors in the United States (US), including the forestry sector, which heavily depends on temporary migrant guest workers to perform roles that are difficult to fill with local labor. We conducted a qualitative case study focusing on a single labor contracting company that supplies workers for forestry projects in the US South to examine how the pandemic affected migrant workers.

Keywords: Migrant labor; Pandemic; H2B program (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2025.103443

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