There may be up to half a million undocumented residents in Canada, according to some estimates, with the majority settling in Toronto. While critics welcome the City’s new initiative to raise awareness of this population group’s lives, hardships and contributions, they say politicians at all levels need to address root causes of poverty and homelessness in immigration debates.
View More Toronto’s ‘Undocumented Residents Day’ – Nice, But Not Enough: Critics
Ottawa is granting 90,000 applicants a pathway to permanent residency to reach its immigration target this year. But the program does nothing for the migrant workers feeding the country, says one migrant justice organization
View More Advocates Call Ottawa’s PR Program “A Smokescreen”
As COVID-19 creates difficulties for those hoping to settle in Canada, Migrant Students United advocates for the renewal of post-graduate work permits of international students.
View More International Students Call for Renewal of Work Permits, Reduction of Tuition Fees
More than 1000 migrant farm workers in Ontario have been infected with COVID-19. Three of them have died. Advocates point out the housing and working conditions as the main causes and criticize their restrictive work permit. This time, a worker speaks up.
View More Farm Worker Sues Scotlynn Farms for Unlawful Reprisals
A new form of global class structure has evolved in which white parents in the developed world hire nannies from Cameroon or the Philippines to leave their own children and come look after white ones in the west
View More Is This Our Land? Review of ‘An Immigrant’s Manifesto’
A new feature documentary might have you thinking twice when buying tomatoes and greenhouse products next time you visit the grocery store. “Migrant Dreams” explores how migrant women agricultural workers struggle within Canada’s Temporary Foreign…
View More Documentary Explores Plight of Migrant WorkersIn this week’s round-up of what’s been making headlines in Canada’s ethnic media: the Black community reflects on the shortcomings of Black History Month; groups react to the passing of a federal motion denouncing sanctions…
View More Overhaul Black History Month, Community SaysAt a time when Canada has seen a shift in immigration policy, particularly when it comes to resettling Syrian refugees, a study reveals that myths and imaginaries created around migrants can influence a country’s immigration…
View More Migrant Myths Influence Immigration PoliciesThe efforts by the Canadian government to resettle 25,000 Syrian refugees by February 2016 is generous, but it does not address the factors that caused the massive diaspora in the first place. Only when the…
View More Panel Discusses Root Causes of Migration Crises
Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s recent actions demonstrate that not only is he a crusader of wild talk, but ready for wild action, too. In what is the biggest military maneuver of the Hungarian Army…
View More Hungary PM’s Closed Borders Are Xenophobic