Some of our recent analysis:
- 2019 Regulatory and Policy Developments in Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Programs (2019) – Important reforms to Canada’s temporary labour migration programs were implemented in 2019, and other possible changes were also announced. This is a broad overview of four significant policy changes at the federal level; two that have been implemented and two that are still under development. Available in English only.
- 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 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)
- 2015 Moving the Temporary Labour Migration Debate to the Fundamentals: Employer/Agent-Bonded Migrant Workers as Victims of State Violations of Human Rights (Eugénie Depatie-Pelletier)
- Accès à la justice pour les travailleuses domestiques migrantes : une illusion? (Myriam Dumont Robillard 2015)
Other useful resources:
- 2018/2019 Non- permanents en permanence : les travailleurs agricoles migrants au Canada (Tahara Bhate, Sophie Gagnon, Sally Guy, Umang Khandelwal, Matthew Klassen)
- 2017 Caught between a rock and a hard place: mental health of migrant live-in caregivers in Canada (Vahabi, Mandana et Wong, Josephine Pui-Hing)
- 2017 Assessing the changes to Canada’s Live-in Caregiver Program: Improving Security or Deepening Precariousness? (Banerjee, Rupa, Kelly, Philip, Tungohan, Ethel, GABRIELA-Ontario, Migrante-Canada, Community Alliance for Social Justice)
- 2016 Canada’s (Live-in) Caregiver Program: Preceived Impacts on the Health and Access to Health Care among Immigrant Filipina Live-In Caregivers in the Greater Toronto Area, Ontario, Canada (Carlos, Jessica Krystle)
- 2015 Travail domestique et exploitation : le cas des travailleuses domestiques philippines au Canada (PAFR) (Galerand, Elsa, Galllié, Martin et Ollivier-Gobeil, Jeanne, en collaboration avec PINAY)
