The Justicia for Migrant Workers (J4MW) is a non-profit organization run by volunteer aimed at helping the migrant framworkers to gain their rights in Canada. This organization established in April 2001 when over 20 Mexican migrant workers organized a strike in Leamington and repatriated. They demand for a employment insurance created for the migran workers by the federal government and the right to apply for citizenship in Canada. Moreover, they fight to gain the fair treat and right to appeal for the workers (J4MW website, Our Main Demands). They offers workshop to educate the migrant workers to understand their rights and collect their complaints. Through the interaction with the farmers, helps them raise the awareness of legal issues. A more active action they connect migrant worker with immigration office and humanrights organizations both in Canada and in their homeland (J4MW website, What We Do). They worlk with Centre for Spanish Speaking Peoples and ELACE to connect Caribbean and Mexican workers in a community. Also, their analysis include not only immigration issues but also gender and class conflict in the work (J4MW Website, Principles and Goals). The central goal of J4MW is to seize a better working condition and more respect for the migrate workers. Moreover, they urges Canadian to perfect the SAWP systems (J4MW WEBSITE, The Issues). This organization advances equity by helping migrant workers to gain their human rights and let the public have the acknowledge that thoes workers are working in a poor working condition. Public has the myths about migrants or immigrant that their come would take away Canadian jobs (Guest Speaker Faroah Chowdhury). A Canadian is imaged as a white man speak English or French, so when a ... ... middle of paper ... ..., unjust for the migrant workers. Migrant workers come to Canada to do the job with very low skills and low income (Ornstein, 56, 2006). Canadian government and citizens choose to ignore them such as Mister Volpe ignored J4MW’s request. People also has xenophobic for those migrants (Fekete, 2,2006). They are considering as dangerous towards Canadian not only Canadian thinks that migrant workers take their jobs, but also they are from a foreign land. In my opinion, J4MW is doing a great job to educate migrant workers to understand their rights and give them courage to fight. In the other hand, the government should also to educate Canadian citizens to put down the fear for migrants and immigrants. Government should put more efforts to help migrants improve their skills and language. There should be legal agency to ensure the migrant workers’ rights can be protected.
The migrants experienced the xenophobia in Ontario. Many people were prejudiced, ultimately deciding that these workers were here from a foreign land to steal their jobs and they grew uncomfortable. One worker stated he thinks that slavery still existed in the world, and that he experienced it daily. Conditions for the workers were indicative of that. They worked on holidays, overtime, and did not receive extra payment for their efforts.
In order to understand the need for TFWs, it is important to determine just where the workers are being placed and what roles they are filling. A total of 202,510 temporary foreign worker positions existed in 2012, up by about 50,000 from the previous year (Economic and Social Development Canada, 2013). Of those workers, nearly 100,000, or half of th...
The Family class makes up approximately 28% of people immigrating to Canada. This is a class of people who are wanting to immigrant to Canada in order to be with a relative or spouse who is a Canadian citizen or recent immigrant (also known as a Sponsor). There is no point system required to be accepted as an immigrant, but they must prove that their Sponsor is able to meet the minimum necessary income for them until the applicant can find an employment. Accepting these types of immigrants not only allows Canada to stay on good terms with its immigrants but, also keeps the money that the original immigrant would have been making, and sending back to their family in their home country, to stay and be spent in Canada. The Canadian government has many laws and policies for immigrants and immigration. For example, in 2002 the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act was instituted. It has four main objectives: to pursue social, cultural and economical benefits for all Canadians, to reunite families in Canada, to promote successful integration of immigrants and to respect the bilingual and multicultural character of Canada. Another example of a policy impacted by immigration was the Sign Decision in 1985. This was the ruling of the Supreme Court of Canada that the Immigration Act (1976) was a violation of our Section 7 rights in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. In this case, Santam Sign was not permitted to appeal the government's refusal to his immigration proposal in court. As a result the Supreme Court ruled that this did not allow Sign the right to liberty, life and security- our basic Section 7 rights. People applying for refugee status in Canada now how the right to a quick and fair hearing with them in attending and any life necessities they may need while in Canada during this process. So as you can see, politics has
One of the other reasons as to why people would work for cash, below minimum wage, is because of their inability to work legally in Canada. The importance of closed social and ethnic networks is significant in providing informal labour to any industrial society and should not be undermined (Catanzarite and Aguilera 2002). The reason as to why many immigrants are employed as informal low-wage-earning workers in Canada is because of their inability to acquire jobs through legal methods due to their illegal status (Catanzarite and Aguilera 2002).
Systemic discrimination has been a part of Canada’s past. Women, racial and ethnic minorities as well as First Nations people have all faced discrimination in Canada. Policies such as, Charter of Rights and Freedoms, provincial and federal Human Rights Codes, as well has various employment equity programs have been placed in Canada’s constitution to fight and address discrimination issues. Despite these key documents placed for universal rights and freedoms Aboriginal and other minority populations in Canada continue to be discriminated against. Many believe there is no discrimination in Canada, and suggest any lack of success of these groups is a result of personal decisions and not systemic discrimination. While others feel that the legislation and equality policies have yet resulted in an equal society for all minorities. Racism is immersed in Canadian society; this is clearly shown by stories of racial profiling in law enforcement.
Based on the preliminary research I conducted, I have been able to identify two key topic areas that are of interest to me and these include: immigrant women attaining jobs in Ontario and violence experienced by women in Canada. In regard to immigrant women attaining jobs, there are significantly higher unemployment rates and lower wages that they are faced with, in comparison to other immigrant men and Canadian-born men and women. The debate circulating around this issue seeks to answer whether gender, immigrant class, age, ethnicity and sexuality all play a role in an immigrant woman’s ability to be employed (TIEDI, 2010, p.1). Some key questions that have arisen focus on workplace policies and programs that create further disparity within the gender gap, rather than aiding immigrant women who have differing needs in the labour market. Questions posed, seek to find the contributing factors to lower wages and what can be changed in the regulations to create equity (TIEDI, 2010, p.6). As well, a study conducted by Anucha et al. (2006) examines what are the outcomes of immigrant women participating in the economy and how this varies from other males, along with the social impacts of being employed (p.5).
Fleras, Augie. “Aboriginal Peoples in Canada: Repairing the Relationship.” Chapter 7 of Unequal Relations: An Introduction to Race, Ethnic and Aboriginal Dynamics in Canada. 6th ed. Toronto: Pearson, 2010. 162-210. Print.
Racial discrimination in the workplace has been a persistent theme in Canada’s history as well as present-day times. The occurrence of actions and attitudes that impose a sense of one being less equal than another on the basis of one’s race in Canada’s workplace inhibits both our nation’s ability to move forward as well as strengthen unification within our country. The belief in a more egalitarian society, where one’s race and ethnic background have little to no impact on employees (or potential employees) standings within the job market, would seemingly be reinforced by the majority of Canadians, who consistently show support for Canada’s multicultural identity. Couple that with the noticeable strides Canada has made in the past several decades through legislation, in order to eliminate discriminatory practices and actions within the workplace, and one would likely assume that racial discrimination within the workplace is largely a concern of the past. However, current research supports the argument that the level of which racial discrimination occurs today is increasing, and as such it persists to be a key problem in the current workplace of the nation. In the workplace, racial discrimination is often seen with regard to uneven access to jobs, unfair selection and promotion criteria (as well as access to the means in order to meet this criteria), and workplace harassment. This paper compares similar findings of two articles; the first, Racial inequality in employment in Canada, as was published in the Canadian Public Administration (CPA), and the second, What Are Immigrants’ Experiences of Discrimination in the Workplace?, published by the Toronto Immigrant Employment Data Initiative (TIEDI).
During the 1930’s, 1.3 million Americans from the Midwest and Southwest migrated to California, which had a population of 5.7 million. In 1937, there were between 200,000 and 350,000 migrant workers traveling yearly throughout the United States. Many migrant workers worked in California where some were displaced by impending Dust Bowl migrants ("Farm Labor in the 1930s - Rural Migration News | Migration Dialogue."). During the 1930’s the migrant workers lost their homes because of the Dust Bowl so they had to move. They became homeless.
The documentary El Contrato follows the exploits of Mexican migrant workers as they find themselves being exploited. In particular, it follows one man, Teodoro Martinez, a father of 4 who has worked many seasons in Canada. Teodoro returns year after year. He does not return because he enjoys it, he returns for the pay. The migrant workers are chosen with certain criteria in mind. These ‘desirable’ traits are that they have minimal, if any, education and a family in Mexico. The workers chosen are typically quite poor, many not owning a house. The pay is better than what they could get in Mexico, so they must make the decision to desert their families for two thirds of the year to support their loved ones. They are brought to a town where most
The aforementioned requisites of Kafala system creates numerous possibilities for companies and employers to exploit and traffic employees. Accordingly, millions of migrants, mostly from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Indonesia and the Philippines, have been subjugated, abused, and harmed in what many people describe as “modern slavery.” Despite numerous changes within jurisdictions of the aforementioned countries, little progress has been made since the establishment of the Kafala system, largely attributed to the unawareness of this problem and the lack of willingness from GCC country governments. According to Jessica Caplin, “There is currently little NGO and civilian involvement in the struggle for greater rights” (Caplin, 2009, p. 32), asserting the fact that most civilians are unaware of this problem even in countries where sponsorship systems are implemented.... ... middle of paper ...
Labor and Legality by Ruth Gomberg-Munoz is an intense ethnography about the Lions, undocumented immigrants working in a Chicago restaurant as busboys. The ten undocumented men focused on in Gomberg-Munoz’s are from Leon, Mexico. Since they are from Leon, they are nicknamed the Lions in English. She describes why they are here. This includes explaining how they are here to make a better future for their family, if not only financially, but every other way possible. Also, Gomberg-Munoz focuses on how Americans see “illegal aliens”, and how the Lions generate social strategies, become financially stable, stay mentally healthy, and keep their self-esteem or even make it better. Gomberg-Munoz includes a little bit of history and background on “illegal”
...icking in the Middle East as well as looking past gender, racial, and classist biases that may affect their perceptions of human trafficking and who it inherently affects. Migrant workers remain the most vulnerable to trafficking within the region and thus a reform of the kafala system as well as policies directed specifically at protecting migrant workers seem to be some of the crucial elements in the preventing forced labour and poor conditions of workers within the region.
vision of the settlement process. The settlement journey for immigrants is one that lasts a lifetime and extends into the second generation, and our public policy response must accept this fundamental reality. The Canadian Citizenship and Immigration has put in place some services for the newcomers to Canada like Newcomer Children and Youth in the Schools. An example of the immediate relevance and practical applicability of the notion of social inclusion is the issue of Access to Trades and Professions (ATP). This has been found to be limiting
People that left their home to find a job they were known as migrant workers. They traveled across the country or they left the country. Most of them did not find a job so they lived on the streets. Migrant Workers in the 1930s had to travel for work because they lost their farms and the government did not help them much. Migrant workers were treated poorly in the 1930s.