- Description
Justicia for Migrant Workers (J4MW) is a volunteer run political non-profit collective comprised of activists from diverse walks of life (including labour activists, educators, researchers, students and youth of colour) based in Toronto, Ontario, and now in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. We are engaged in this work alongside our personal commitments and numerous social justice struggles.
J4MW strives to promote the rights of migrant farmworkers (participating in the Canadian Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program and the Low Skilled Workers Program) and farmworkers without status. Promoting workers rights entails fighting for spaces where workers themselves can articulate their concerns without loosing their work or being repatriated. We start with workers' knowledge and concerns and and collectively devise strategies to make necessary changes. We see ourselves as allies and strive for a movement that is led and directed by workers themselves.
Our work is and has to be transnational in scope. It considers the context of sending countries, Canada's complicity in benefitting and creating poverty in the Global South, and most importantly we consider families left behind, primarily children and women who are very much a part of migration but who are always forgotten in the equation of migrant farm labour.
J4MW collective is is motivated by experiences shared and lessons learned from migrant farm workers over the course of more than nine years of community outreach in rural Ontario. As allies, activists and friends we believe migrant workers deserve work with dignity and respect!
- Statut
Actif
- Adresse
720 Spadina Avenue, Suite 223
- Ville
Toronto
- Province
Ontario
- Pays
Canada
- Code postal
M5S 2T9
- Téléphone
1-877-707-6620 ext. 1
- Courriel
- Liens
- Campagnes coordonnées
- Campagnes endossées
- Mots-clés
grassroots, Canada, activism, human rights, transnational
- Secteurs économiques
Agriculture and horticulture workers
- Groupes cibles
Travailleurs (im)migrants, Législateurs, Journalistes, Sensibilisation du public, Employeurs et agences de recrutement, Chercheurs, Syndicats et ONG/groupes communautaires/réseaux de solidarité
- Pertinence géographique
Canada, Ontario, Alberta, México, Manitoba, Quebec, Colombie-Britannique, Autres provinces, America - Central & Caribbeans, Amérique du Sud, Fédéral, Guatemala, Jamaïque, International Organizations, Philippines, Honduras, Colombia, Équateur, Other Caribbean States, Haïti, Cuba, Dominican Repulic, Salvador, Nouvelle-Écosse, Peru, Regional relevance, Regional relevance, National relevance et Belize
- Sphères d’activité
Agriculture, Anthropologie, Études culturelles et ethniques, Économie, Études en genre et sexualité, Droit, Science politique et Travail social
- Langues
Français, Anglais et Espagnol