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ATELIER
Mardi 18 octobre, 13h à 15h
Travailleurs et travailleuses temporaires et la lutte pour une justice immigrante
Édifice Shatner, 3480 McTavish, Salle Lev Bukhman (203)
Présenté par le Centre des Travailleurs et Travailleuses Immigrant(e)s (CTI)

Chaque année, de plus en plus d’immigrant se font amener par le gouvernement conservateur au Canada sous le programme de travailleurs étrangers temporaires. Mais en même temps, nous pouvons voir de plus en plus de déportations et les possibilités de venir au Canada pour la majorité des immigrant(e)s potentiel(le)s réduire. En 2010, il y eu plus immigrant(e)s arrivant sous le programme de travailleurs étrangers temporaires que de demande de résidence permanente acceptée. Beaucoup de ces immigrant(e)s sont forcé(e)s à vivre en tant que force de travail néoféodale sous des programmes de travail immigrant où leur droit d’être dans ce pays est complètement lié à leur employeur. Cette situation ne laisse peu ou aucun recours pour des milliers d’immigrant(e)s au pays.

Le centre des travailleurs et travailleuses immigrant(e)s travaille côte à côte avec les travailleurs et travailleuses immigrant(e)s et leur famille vivant avec un statut précaire au Canada, le plus souvent se voyant forcé(e)s à travailler dans des agences de placements temporaires ce qui crée des conditions de travail extrêmement sujettes à l’exploitation. Le centre soutient aussi des travailleurs et travailleuses étranger(ère)s temporaires pour défendre leur droit de vivre ici en permanence et d’avoir leurs droits en tant que travailleurs et travailleuses respectés. Cet atelier examinera ces campagnes et l’utilisation croissante d’immigrant(e)s en tant que forme de force de travail pouvant être exploité par les gouvernements, et en tant qu’un modèle de développement économique par la Banque Mondiale et par le Fonds international monétaire.

Cet atelier sera présenté par :

Tess Tessalona – Membre fondatrice du Centre des travailleurs et travailleuses immigrant(e)s et membre de PINAY–organisme de femmes filipinas qui travaille avec des travailleuses domestiques sous le programme des aides familiaux résidents.

Abdel Kader Belaouni – organisateur communautaire au Centre des travailleurs et travailleuses immigrant(e)s. Kader viva pendant 4 ans dans un sanctuaire ici à Montréal pendant sa lutte pour son droit de recevoir le statut de réfugié au Canada. Il a finalement gagné en 2010.

WORKSHOP
Tuesday, October 18th, 1pm-3pm
Temporary Foreign Workers and the Struggle for Migrant Justice
Shatner Building, 3480 McTavish, Lev Bukhman Room (203)
Presented by the Immigrant Workers Centre (IWC)

Every year, more and more migrants are brought to Canada by the Conservative Government under the new Temporary Foreign Worker Program. Yet at the same time, we see the rates of deportations increasing and the prospects of coming to Canada for most potential immigrants decreasing. In 2010 more migrants came under the Temporary Foreign Worker Program than were accepted as Permanent Residents. Many of these migrants are forced to live as indentured labor under migrant worker programs where their right to be in this country is tied completely to their employers. This situation leaves little to no recourse for thousands of migrants across the country.

The Immigrant Workers Centre has been working alongside migrant workers and their families who have precarious status in Canada, often forced to work in temporary placement agencies which create highly exploitative work conditions. The Centre also works with Temporary Foreign Workers to defend their rights to stay permanently and to have their basic labor rights respected. This workshop will explore these campaigns and the growing use of migration as a form of exploitative labour by governments, and as a model of economic development by the World Bank and International Monetary Fund.

The workshop will be presented by:

Tess Tessalona – Founder of the Immigrant Workers Centre and member of PINAY-Filipina Womens’ organization that works with domestic workers under the Live-In Caregiver Program

Abdel Kader Belaouni – Community Organizer at the Immigrant Workers Centre. Kader spent four long years in sanctuary here in Montreal while fighting for his right to attain refugee status in Canada. He finally won his case in 2010

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