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One of our members, Evelyn Encalada Grez, will be teaching a course this fall at the Department of Human Rights & Equity Studies, York University.
"Migrant Workers and Human Rights" will explore precarious forms of labour migration that exploit race, class, gender and sexuality to create a highly vulnerable and disposable class of workers which violate basic human rights at every turn.
In the last few decades globalization has produced displacement and the urgency of movement for millions of people in order to secure a livelihood. In this context, people from the Third World have to contend with particular ways of moving, living and working in the global economy.
The course will focus primarily on the North American context while taking cues from other regions of the world where the "First World" and the "Third World" collide. The Canadian context is of particular importance, where marginalized migrant workers (as opposed to formally-processed immigrants accepted under the Canadian point system, or migrants admitted under special programs with marketable professional skills) are rendered stateless through the denial of fundamental human rights.
The first section of the course explores key concepts and theories of labour migration. The second section turns specifically to the Canadian context and the federal government's Temporary Foreign Worker Programs. The third section turns to international migrant rights protocols and their limits and possibilities for the lives of migrant workers and their families. The concluding section turns to re-conceptualizations of human rights by migrant workers and their allies through diverse models of organizing from the countryside to the global city.
For more information about the course contact Evelyn [email protected]
Evelyn Encalada Grez is a community organizer and researcher who was born in Chile and raised in Canada. She is completing a doctoral degree at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Department of Sociology and Equity Studies at the University of Toronto. Evelyn is a founding member of Justicia for Migrant Workers, a political collective that has promoted the rights of migrant farm workers in Canada since 2001. Evelyn has worked in El Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatemala and Honduras with the Central American Network in Solidarity with Women Maquila Workers and with the Centro de Apoyo al Trabajador, Puebla, Mexico. Evelyn is also the creator of an innovative multimedia online course called Migration and Displacement geared toward action and critical reflection for the Centre for Intercultural Communication at the University of British Columbia and has also taught in the Work and Labour Studies Program in the Department of Social Science at York. This year she will also be teaching "Canadian Immigration Policy and Settlement" in the Human Rights and Equity Studies Department at York.
"Migrant Workers and Human Rights" will explore precarious forms of labour migration that exploit race, class, gender and sexuality to create a highly vulnerable and disposable class of workers which violate basic human rights at every turn.
In the last few decades globalization has produced displacement and the urgency of movement for millions of people in order to secure a livelihood. In this context, people from the Third World have to contend with particular ways of moving, living and working in the global economy.
The course will focus primarily on the North American context while taking cues from other regions of the world where the "First World" and the "Third World" collide. The Canadian context is of particular importance, where marginalized migrant workers (as opposed to formally-processed immigrants accepted under the Canadian point system, or migrants admitted under special programs with marketable professional skills) are rendered stateless through the denial of fundamental human rights.
The first section of the course explores key concepts and theories of labour migration. The second section turns specifically to the Canadian context and the federal government's Temporary Foreign Worker Programs. The third section turns to international migrant rights protocols and their limits and possibilities for the lives of migrant workers and their families. The concluding section turns to re-conceptualizations of human rights by migrant workers and their allies through diverse models of organizing from the countryside to the global city.
For more information about the course contact Evelyn [email protected]
Evelyn Encalada Grez is a community organizer and researcher who was born in Chile and raised in Canada. She is completing a doctoral degree at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Department of Sociology and Equity Studies at the University of Toronto. Evelyn is a founding member of Justicia for Migrant Workers, a political collective that has promoted the rights of migrant farm workers in Canada since 2001. Evelyn has worked in El Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatemala and Honduras with the Central American Network in Solidarity with Women Maquila Workers and with the Centro de Apoyo al Trabajador, Puebla, Mexico. Evelyn is also the creator of an innovative multimedia online course called Migration and Displacement geared toward action and critical reflection for the Centre for Intercultural Communication at the University of British Columbia and has also taught in the Work and Labour Studies Program in the Department of Social Science at York. This year she will also be teaching "Canadian Immigration Policy and Settlement" in the Human Rights and Equity Studies Department at York.