- African Migrants Bought and Sold Openly in 'Slave Markets' in Libya
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Hundreds of migrants along North African migration routes are being bought and sold openly in modern day 'slave markets' in Libya, survivors have told the United Nations migration agency, which warned that these reports "can be added to a long list of outrages" in the country.
- African odysseys turn to the south
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Fewer than 5% of African migrants now want to reach Europe or America. They’re looking instead to neighbouring countries, or the continent’s dreamland, South Africa. It’s a long, hard way there, and they may be no better off if they reach it.
- The anguish of migrants in Macedonia
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Milevska talks about the difficulties that migrants and refugees have to endure as cross Macedonia in their way to Western Europe.
- Border Vigils
Keeping Migrants Out of the Rich World
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2012
A look at immigration controversies, focusing on the migrants' circumstances.
- Bracero History Archive
Resource Type: Database
The Bracero History Archive collects and makes available the oral histories and artifacts pertaining to the Bracero program, a guest worker initiative that spanned the years 1942-1964. Millions of Mexican agricultural workers crossed the border under the program to work in more than half of the states in America.
- British cyber-activist sued by Thai fruit company
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders calls on the Thai pineapple processing company Natural Fruit and the Thai judicial authorities to abandon the three defamation cases still pending against British human rights defender Andy Hall
- Building a Solidarity City
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
A Solidarity City is the creation of a community that rejects a system that engenders poverty and anguish, not solely for immigrants and refugees, but also for other Montrealers confronting these same realities.
- Canada-wide migrant worker coalition calls on Trudeau to MoVE for Real Change
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Canada-wide migrant worker coalition calls on Trudeau to MoVE for Real Change. Newly launched Coalition for Migrant Worker Rights - Canada calls for end to discrimination against migrant workers.
- Climate Migrants Lead Mass Migration to India's Cities
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
South Asia will be severely impacted by climate change and cause challenges that the government must resolve.
- Connexions
Volume 9, Number 1 - Spring 1984 - Energy - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1984
- Connexions Library: Africa Focus
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2009
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on Africa.
- Connexions Library: International Affairs & Development Focus
Resource Type: Website
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on international issues.
- Connexions Library: Labour and Unions Focus
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2009
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on labour and unions.
- 'Consumers are not aware we are slaves inside the greenhouses'
Exploitation plagues Spain's farming province, with migrant workers paid below minimum wage and living in squalor.
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2019
What is referred to as Almeria's "economic miracle" among Spanish economists is almost exclusively dependant on an invisible, expendable and often illegally employed migrant workers like Maruf, toiling under 40-degree heat and extreme humidity.
- Denying health coverage to injured migrant workers is shameful
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Imagine getting injured at work, and instead of going to a hospital or seeing your health-care provider, you are deported from Canada.
- Ethiopian Migrants Victimized in Saudi Arabia
Racism and Hate Running Through the Streets
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
The recent appalling events in Saudi Arabia have brought thousands of impassioned Ethiopians living inside the country and overseas onto the streets. This powerful worldwide action presents a tremendous opportunity for the people to unite, to demand their rights through peaceful demonstrations and to call with one voice for change.
- Ethiopian workers 'beaten and robbed' by Saudi police
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
A group of undocumented Ethiopians told The Associated Press news agency that after being captured by Saudi police officers they were subject to serious abuses, including beatings and filthy prison conditions as well as witnessing shootings during roundups.
- Evicting the Underclass
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
A Chinese government campaign to expel migrant workers from Beijing is designed to reap greater profits from urban land and reserve the city for elites.
- Evil Traffickers and Innocent Children?
It's Not So Simple
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
One of the most pressing reasons why teenagers like Adri need to migrate for work is because there’s no other way for them or their families to access the money that is essential to life in any capitalist economy.
- Female Well-Being
Toward a global theory of social change
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2005
- Fernandez, Irene
Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
Resource Type: Article
Malaysian advocate for the right of women, migrants, and poor workers. (Born 1946).
- Fill the gap: Ontario should insure injured migrant workers
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
We want to sound the alarm over the unjust federal and provincial immigration and health policies that are based on the exploitation of human labour and xenophobia. Migrants increasingly enter Canada to work under temporary foreign worker programs through which they are denied equitable access to services while still being required to pay taxes.
- The Flood From the North
Washington's Role in Triggering the Child Migrant Crisis
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
International law and basic morality demand that the children of Central America are treated with the care and dignity that they and previous generations have been robbed under several decades of US foreign and immigration policy. Achieving this end would require overcoming the convenient myths of power and the culture of indifference in which they take root.
- FOCAL to launch new Mapping Migration from the Americas website
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
The Canadian Foundation for the Americas (FOCAL), in partnership with the International Migration Research Centre (IMRC), has developed interactive, web-based maps to display information about the flow of temporary foreign workers from Latin America
- The government's attempt to eradicate the travelling way of life
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Elly Robson explores the deliberate criminalisation of the travelling way of life by Britian's coalition government.
- Harper's Worst Offense against Refugees May Be His Climate Record
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The Middle East drought between 2006 and 2011 was without precedent since modern record keeping, killing over 80 per cent of livestock and driving up local food prices. Already poor populations had to contend with higher temperatures that dried soil and failed rains during the normally wet season due to weaker winds from the Mediterranean. A key long-term driver of this unfolding humanitarian catastrophe is climate change. And on that front, Canada’s record of contributing to this crisis is far more significant than our wretched record so far in resettling Syrian refugees.
- Hidden from History
Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1989
Eessays analyzing the political, philosophical, and social history of homosexuality from the ancient world to the postwar era.
- High-school youth to rally outside Ontario prison on Family Day
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
High school aged youth from Peterborough and Toronto are changing the way they celebrate Family Day (February 16th) this year, rallying outside a maximum security prison in Lindsay, Ontario.
- How Israel Abuses Africans
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2012
Part 2 of 3 - interview with community activist Rami Gudovitch about state-sponsored Israeli racism towards non-Jewish Africah asylum-seekers.
- How not to grow a new town
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
For years the governments of Peru, and the municipality of Lima, had a working deal with rural migrants who flocked to the city: we'll plan the place, you build it, amenities will arrive. Then came the cheap neoliberal substitute of granting land titles -- and the speculation began.
- Hundreds Expected at Rally to Mark Two Weeks since Alan Kurdi’s Death
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Marking 2 weeks since the deaths of Alan, Ghalib and Rehana Kurdi, Torontonians are joining cross-Canada campaign that has coordinated rallies, marches and forums in over 25 cities.
- I Found My Voice in Spanish, a Language Once Used to Subjugate My Ancestors
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Author Shirley Campbell explains how her Afro-Caribbean parents decided not to speak to her and her siblings in English, perhaps as an attempt to give them one less reason to be different in Spanish-speaking Costa Rica.
- In refuge on Refugee Rights Day: The Awan family story
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
On a day where we remember migrant and refugee struggles for freedom, dignity and security and recommit to fighting ongoing injustice, we highlight the struggle of the Awan family.
- Informal Labour, Another Wall Faced by Migrants in Latin America
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
A large proportion of the 4.3 million migrant workers in Latin America and the Caribbean survive by working in the informal economy or in irregular conditions. An invisible wall that is necessary to bring down, together with discrimination and xenophobia.
- Israel's anti-African dragnet tightens
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
The past year saw some of the most ruthless Israeli attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza since the territories were occupied in 1967. Israeli political leaders incited violence against Palestinians and soldiers and civilians carried out these commands, while the government’s parallel war on African refugees raged on.
- Israel's New Racism: The Persecution of African Migrants in the Holy Land
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2013
About 60,000 African migrants have arrived in Israel since 2006, fleeing unrest in their home countries. But upon arrival in the ostensibly democratic country, the migrants have faced intense persecution and have been branded as "infiltrators" by right-wing politicians and activists.
- Israel's War on Africans
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2014
72-minute slideshow about Israel's treatment of non-Jewish African asylum-seekers, given at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada on March 9, 2014.
- Jailed immigrants begin historic boycott of Detention Reviews
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Immigration detainees at the Central East Correctional Centre in Lindsay, Central North Correctional Centre in Penetanguishene and Toronto's Metro West Detention Centre are starting a historical month-long boycott of their detention reviews
- Lawyers, Activists Urge Ontario Courts to Step in on Immigration Detention
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
An innovative legal challenge is trying to force the Federal government to justify imprisonment of immigrants in a provincial court for the first time. The End Immigration Detention Network and lawyers for two long-term immigration detainees will
- The Left and Immigration
A Major Challenge for a Different Vision of the European Union
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
After the latest drama in Lampedusa, where more than 350 immigrants, mostly Eritreans, perished 600 metres from the Italian coast, the immigration policies of the European Union and its member states are more than ever under scrutiny.
- Liberals' 'humanitarian' open arms is not a solution to migrant crisis; radical economic changes are needed
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2019
Calls by Liberals to 'open our hearts' to immigrants from poor countries are about maintaining the status quo in the capitalist world. The solution is a radical change in the global economic system which encourages migration.
- Living "Illegal"
The Human Face of Unauthorized Immigration
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2011
- Living the Spanish Language as the Descendant of Afro-Caribbean Migrants in Costa Rica
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Several generations of the black population have been forced to fight in order to conserve the language they brought with them, and with it all of their accumulated history, wisdom, and identity. They struggle against the rejection of the mestizo majority as well as the governments in office, who have for years denied them Costa Rican nationality, despite being born in the country.
- Marx and Makhno Meet McDonald's
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2005
Over the last several years, a revolving network of militants in Paris, France, have developed a strategy and tactics for winning strikes by marginal, low-paid, outsourced and immigrant workers against international chains, in situations where the strikers are often ignored by unions to which they nominally belong, or are actually obstructed by them.
- Migrant farmworkers ask Trudeau for Permanent Residency in Canada as they announce caravan to Ottawa
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Migrant farmworker group Justice for Migrant Workers is launching Harvesting Freedom, a year-long campaign for immigration status upon arrival for migrant farmworkers to mark the 50th anniversary of the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program (SAWP).
- Migrant Justice Groups Call for Overhaul of Immigration Detention after Secret Red Cross Report Released
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Migrant justice coalition the End Immigration Detention Network (EIDN) is calling for an end to maximum security imprisonment of immigrants without trial or charges after a secret Red Cross report on deplorable detention conditions became public.
- Migrant rights activists denounce Canada's Federal Government for stripping away Employment Insurance benefit for migrant workers
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Migrant worker advocates are angered and shocked to learn that the Federal Government is once again attacking one of Canada's most vulnerable populations.
- Migrant Workers Fight Exploitation in New Zealand
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Unite Union has dealt with several cases of extreme exploitation of migrant workers. It seems that some of the liquor shops around Auckland have been employing students from India and paying a pittance four or five dollars an hour, well below the legal minimum of $13.75 an hour.
- Migrant Workers in Saudi Arabia
Killed Beaten Raped
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
With few opportunities at home, millions of poor, desperate men and women from South East Asia and the horn of Africa migrate annually to Saudi Arabia. Vulnerable at home and vulnerable abroad where many are enslaved and badly abused, some killed.
- Migrant workers testify on Parliament Hill today, call for permanent immigration status, open work permits, and real reforms
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Four migrant workers will testify at the Standing Committee on Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities (HUMA) today calling for permanent immigration status, open work permits & comprehensive reform
- Migrants' billions put aid in the shade
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Money transfers from workers abroad to family back home have tripled in a decade and are three times larger than global aid budgets.
- Migration
Changing the World
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2011
The author discusses the increasing trend of migration in the modern world, its causes and effects, and peoples and governments responses.
- The Migrations of Roma in the European Union
An Ethnic Minority as the Sport of European Politics
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
France is sending Roma back to Romania, Roma are "voluntarily" leaving the country to go to Macedonia, Czech Roma are seeking asylum in Canada -- these headlines of recent years have repeatedly drawn the eyes of the public to the migrations of Roma in Europe. The resulting debates emphasise the legal status of migrants.
- Mobilizing Temporary Migrant Workers
A Compendium of Forms and Preliminary Discussion
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
While labour migration has been a recurring phenomenon in human history, what is new in the post-1970 period of restructuring in the world capitalist economy is the increased use of temporary migrant labour by employers around the world. The widespread rise of employer use of temporary migrant workers in various economic sectors internationally can be dated from circa 1990.
- Moken nomads leave behind their 'sea gypsy' life for a modern existence
Brought to the world's attention by the 2004 tsunami, the seafaring tribe is struggling to reconcile tradition and modernity
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
The Moken, deep-sea divers off Thailand, find their way of life threatened by modern trawlers and voracious property developers.
- National Day of Action - Petitions with 10,000 signatures delivered to Immigration Enforcement
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
National Day of Action with rallies in Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver and London. Petitions with 10,000 signatures to be delivered to Immigration Enforcement calling for civilian oversight and end to indefinite detention.
- New Internationalist
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
New Internationalist reports on issues of world poverty and inequality. We focus attention on the unjust relationship between the powerful and the powerless worldwide in the fight for global justice.
- New multimedia report exposes discriminatory immigration policy
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
A new multimedia project sheds light on the drastically changed landscape for immigrants under the Harper government. Never Home: Legislating Discrimination in Canadian Immigration launches today at http://www.neverhome.ca
- The No-Nonsense Guide to Class, Caste & Hierarchies
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2002
Concentrates mainly on the history of social hierarchy in Western civilization, and particularly the struggles of the working class.
- The Old Braceros Fight On
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Dozens of men assemble to remember their lives as contract guest workers in the United States and discuss the latest news or lack thereof in their decades-old movement to recover the 10 percent that was deducted from their paychecks and supposedly deposited in a savings account created for the return to Mexico under the old Bracero Program.
- Opposition growing against indefinite immigration detention in Canada
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Canada has no limit on how long migrants can be held pending a deportation. When Canada can't deport migrants because of lack of travel documents or due to the political climate of home countries, these migrants become indefinitely detained.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 30, 2014
Refugees
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2014
Topic of the week is Refugees. Featured articles look at migration, counter-surveillance resources, farmers in Ghana fighting to retain the freedom to save their own seeds, and rebuilding communities faced with mining companies in Ecuador. The website of the week is Mediamatters. From the archives we've got Socialist Feminism: A Strategy for the Women's Movement.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - May 21, 2015
A Healthier Planet
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2015
With the start of the growing season in much of the Northern hemisphere, Other Voices digs up articles and resources related to urban agriculture and local food production. Urban agriculture - growing food in and around cities - is a response to the problems created by industrial agriculture, a chemical-dependent industry shipping food thousands of miles from where it is produced to where it will be consumed. We also mark the release of Omar Khadr, the former child soldier who was abused, tortured, and imprisoned first by the U.S. government and then by Canada. Other articles look at the advances made by women in Latin America, privilege politics, and the myths of peaceful protests.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 23, 2015
Eduardo Galeano, Latin America, the Vietnam War
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2015
In this issue of Other Voices, we mark the death of Eduardo Galeano by featuring two of his books, as well as an article about his life and work. Galeano once wrote that he was "obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past of America and above all that of Latin America, intimate land condemned to amnesia." In his writing, especially Open Veins of Latin America and the mesmerizing Memory of Fire trilogy, Galeano contributed enormously to bringing alive, and keeping alive, the memories of Latin America, and especially of those whom he called the "nobodies" -- the people "who do not appear in the history of the world." Next week also marks the 40th anniversary of the final victory of the Vietnamese war of resistance against the American invasion and occupation.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - August 21, 2015
Canadian federal election, mining and the environment
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2015
Featuring the Canadian federal election, mining and the environment, failure of Syriza in Greece, refugees, veterans of India's struggle for independence.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 12, 2017
Race and Class
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2017
Class conflict - first and foremost, the relationship between the capitalist class and the working class -- is the fundamental contradiction that defines capitalist society. Class is a reality which simultaneously encompasses and collides with other dimensions of oppression and domination, such as gender and race. The relationship between race and class, in particular, is the theme of this issue of Other Voices.
- Outsourcing racism: Bill C-31, Prison Expansion, and the Detention of Immigrants
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, CBSA may arrest and detain a foreign national or permanent resident they deem a threat to public safety, a potential flight risk, unable to substantiate their identity, or a threat to “national security.” Despite the regular invocation of migrants as potentially dangerous and as “criminal,” in reality the overwhelming majority of detainees (94.2%) are held for reasons entirely unrelated to questions of security. Indeed, entire families, including young children, are currently imprisoned in Canadian detention centers.
- Race, Religion and Rounding Up Africans in Israel
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Israel has launched a wholesale roundup of African immigrants, whom members of the ruling parties call a "cancer" on the Jewish state. To circumvent court rulings against imprisonment without trial, the government has packed the refugees into a detention center in the desert. The aim is to convince the Africans "to give up all hope of a normal life in Israel" and go back where they came from.
- Racism in Israel
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Reports of anti-African race riots in Tel Aviv in May finally broke western media silence over one of the most contentious issues facing the state of Israel in recent years: the arrival of tens of thousands of asylum-seekers from sub-Saharan Africa.
- Rally demands end to Toronto Police racial profiling & unwarranted 'status checks'
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Three weeks after the Toronto Police Services were caught red handed doing the work of immigration enforcement, concerned residents are gathering at the Toronto Police Service Board meeting calling for an end to racial profiling and status checks.
- A Range of Abuses
The Invisible Deaths of Lebanon's Migrant Domestic Workers
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Migrant domestic workers generally get very little protection from the Lebanese government and remain under-reported in the media, while the deaths of these workers are rarely discussed in the news. Despite the high incidence, domestic workers’ deaths are not investigated or documented by the Lebanese authorities.
- Red cap terror at the moussaka line: West London ready-meal workers' report and leaflet
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Workplace report for WorkersWildWest no.5 and leaflet for future distribution. Main challenge will be the migrant status of workers - there have been various police raids in the plant - and the language and contract division.
- Reframing Migration: A Conversation With Historian Sunil Amrith
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
The 2017 MacArthur Genius Fellowship recipient's interdisciplinary work on the Bay of Bengal teaches us that movement and migration are central forces in the making of Asian -- and global -- history.
- SA xenophobic attacks: A view from below
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The attacks on African migrants in South Africa are connected to oppression of poor black people in general. To prevent the poor from organizing and standing up to their real enemies, the state is tacitly encouraging violence against foreigners.
- Saudi Arabia's foreign labour crackdown drives out 2m migrants
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Ethiopian workers face hostility amid 'Saudisation' campaign to control foreign labour and get more Saudi citizens into work.
- Scattered Sand
The Story of China's Rural Migrants
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2012
Each year, 200 million workers from China’s vast rural interior travel between cities and provinces in search of employment: the largest human migration in history. This indispensable army of labour accounts for half of China’s GDP, but is an unorganized workforce — “scattered sand,” in Chinese parlance — and the most marginalized and impoverished group of workers in the country.
- Secretive contract reveals Ontario and Border Services jointly responsible for detention injustice
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The End Immigration Detention Network is releasing a secretive contract between the Ontario and Federal government which shows joint responsibility for immigration detention violations. Ontario has denied the existence of this agreement
- Seven pilot sites join national digital library project with Knight Foundation funding
Project will engage communities in local history
Resource Type: Unclassified
Published: 2012
- A Seventh Man
A book of images and work about the experience of migrant workers in Europe
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1975
Images, poetry, quotes and short written pieces that portray the experiences of male migrant workers in Europe.
- Shooting to Kill Immigrants on the Mexican Border
A Border Agent Fired First at Immigrant Smugglers?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Sometimes it takes a small tragedy to call attention to expose a much bigger one.
The small tragedy happened when Nicholas Ivie, a US Border Patrol agent, was shot dead on a dark night in rough terrain along the border with Mexico in Arizona, a state that has been obsessing about illegal border crossers coming into the US from Mexico seeking jobs.
- Stansted 15: British Activists Who Stopped Deportation Charter Flight Convicted of Terrorism Charge
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
A look at a group of fifteen activists who prevented a deportation charter flight from leaving Stansted airport in the UK by securing themselves around the aeroplane, and were subsequently found guilty of a terrorist offence.
- Sugar and Modern Slavery
Haitian Migrant Labour and the Dominican Republic
Resource Type: Book
Tracing the roots of the modern Caribbean sugar industry back to the slave era of colonialism, Roger Plant explains how the industry operates today in an environment dominated by the U.S., and why - despite the good intentions of periodic populist regimes - it can only survive on a basis of ultra-cheap labour. The author's fact-finding investigation lays bare the reason for the slave-like conditions that still continue.
- These Activists Blocked Migrant Deportations. Now They Face Life Imprisonment in the U.K.
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
Fifteen activists who blocked a plane deporting migrants are being charged with laws intended for terrorists. The use of charter flights for deportations is one of the issues they raise.
- Threats, attacks, obstacles, jail: what's coming between us and the Rohingya story
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
While images of the suffering of Rohingya migrants circulated around the world, local journalists and politicians faced restrictions in trying to report on and speak out on the issue.
- Time to Unfence our view of Migration
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Instead of pretending that fence-building will solve anything, it is high time that we 'unfence' our views of migration. On the one hand, this means seeking other, more humane responses to human movement, including orderly refugee resettlement. On the other, it means not seeing migration as a self-contained 'problem' in need of a security response - but rather as an intrinsic part of a world inexorably on the move.
- To stop migration, stop the abuse of Africa's resources
Europe should tackle migration not by deploying troops, but by curbing economic abuse and destablisation.
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
On January 17, Italy's parliament approved the deployment of up to 470 troops in Niger to combat "irregular migrant flows" and the trafficking of people towards Libya, and, from there, to Europe. A number of other European countries are pursuing similar policies, including France, Germany, and Spain.
- Toolkit for a New Canada - 2013 Edition
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
A pamphlet providing a snapshot of what the contributors, brought together by Canadian Dimensionmagazine, believe are the big issues facing Canada in the second decade of the 21st century. The articles are short and offer concrete suggestions for the way forward.
- Tracking Harper's 9-year-long assault on unions
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Stephen Harper has been Prime Minister of Canada for almost a decade. In that time, the system of protections that were put in place by decades of advocacy by labour organizations and unions has been partly dismantled. The attacks have been extremely strategic. Ground Zero for these attacks has been the House of Commons, where piece after piece of legislation has taken aim at unions and collective bargaining.
- A Troublemaker's Handbook 2
Resource Type: Book
A manual for workers who want to take control over their lives at work. In hundreds of first-person accounts, workers tell in their own words how they organized and struggled to do that.
- Uncertainty shapes immigrant life in the United States
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Immigrants in the United States without legal residency or who were admitted on a temporary basis feel that their lives have become much more complicated in 2017 because of the current Republican administration's intention to expel thousands of Latin Americans even though they are successfully integrated into the local economy and have no criminal record.
- Undocumented Labour: Changes to refugee health care put women and babies at risk
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Pregnant refugee and non-status women are facing growing difficulties in accessing pre & post-natal care. Some doula's in Montreal are helping to fix that situation.
- We are everywhere: The irresistable rise of global anticapitalism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2003
Global voices presenting alternative visions of democracy.
- What's Left of Queer?: Immigration, Sexuality, and Affect in a Neoliberal World
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
We need to refuse the narratives of abjection that are routinely forced upon us. They only render us immobile creatures, begging for help. We are all neoliberals now. We're all selling our bodies, our lives, our stories to the media and to provide comfort to ourselves. Those stories have to be challenged and reworked or we lose sight of the larger story of economic exploitation, at our peril.
- Who is Dayani Cristal?
Resource Type: Film/Video
Arizona's desert claims another migrant's life. With only the tattoo "Dayani Cristal" as a clue, a search begins across the continent to discover his identity and the people he may have left behind. With Gael Garica Bernal.
- Why Al Jazeera will not say Mediterranean 'migrants'
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
There is no "migrant" crisis in the Mediterranean. There is a very large number of refugees fleeing unimaginable misery and danger and a smaller number of people trying to escape the sort of poverty that drives some to desperation.
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