"Exposure of Syrian refugee agricultural workers to pesticides in Lebanon: a socio-economic and political lens,"

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Syrian migrant workers have always been a substantial part of the labor force in Lebanon. Following the war in Syria that started in 2011, the number of Syrians who took refuge in Lebanon surged to 1.5 million, constituting close to 30% of its population ...

Syrian refugee agricultural workers in Lebanon live in suboptimal conditions and are exposed to hazardous working environments which lack basic occupational health and safety (OHS) measures, and where pesticides are excessively used. These compounded exposures and vulnerabilities have multiple and concurrent health impacts which have been documented among migrant and refugee workers in other countries...

We argue that dynamics at the workplace and exposure to pesticides are determined by distal factors which should be understood to improve the probability of implementing successful health and safety interventions at different levels...