Research & publications

Some of our recent analysis:

Migrant Care and Farm Workers, Canadian Law, and Unfree Labour (2018) – Synthesis contextualizing the launch of our Break the Chains legal action project
Migrant Careworkers, Canadian Immigration Policies and Human Trafficking (2018) – Written submission to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights about the role played by Canadian immigration law in the human trafficking of migrant caregivers.
Care Workers Voices for Landed Status and Fairness (2018) (Collective publication with Pinay, Caregivers’ Action Centre,Vancouver Committee for Domestic Workers and Caregivers Rights, Caregiver Connections, Education and Support Organization, Migrant Workers Alliance for Change and Migrante Alberta)
The Caregiver Program: Necessary reforms for the respect of migrant caregivers’ fundamental rights in Canada (2018) – Written submissions to IRCC by MigrantWorkersRights and the ARHW.
Employer-tied Labour Migration vs. Migrant Workers’ Right not to be Held in Involuntary Servitude: Lessons from the UK, Israel and USA (2018) – Paper presented at the Migrants at Work legal conference at Queens University

Some of the recent analysis completed by our members:

When governments create unfreedom: rehumanizing migrant domestic workers (Myriam Dumont-Robillard 2019)
Les permis de travail lié à un employeur donné: Barrière à l’accès à la justice pour les travailleurs et travailleuses migrant.e.s (Marie-Èveline Touma 2019)
Labour Migration Program Declared a “Modern Form of Slavery” under Constitutional Review: Employer‐Tying Policy Impact vs Mythical “Harm Reduction” Measures (Eugénie Depatie-Pelletier 2018)
Temporary and Tied: State-Structured Vulnerability and Violations of Procedural Fairness Under the SAWP (Jessye Kilburn 2018)
Accès à la justice pour les travailleuses domestiques migrantes : une illusion? (Myriam Dumont Robillard 2015)

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