Actor Details

info@ justicia4migrantworkers.org

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.

Their work:

- community outreach in migrant communities in rural Ontario and in sending communities in Mexico and the Caribbean
-develop and conduct workshops around various issues including migrant women's specific concerns
- raise awareness of the plight of migrant workers
- document workers' complaints
- research varous aspects of migrant agricultural labour in North America
- lobby government to change policies of SAWP and other guest worker program that created an indentured form of labour
- build community coalitions with similar organizations across the Americas
- educate workers about their rights
- aid workers solve employment and housing problems
- empower workers to stand up for their rights
- engage in ongoing training of legal issues affecting migrant workers
- connect migrant workers with human rights organizations in their home countries
- stimulate action among migrant workers, host communities and the public at large
- respond to emergency immigration problems
- create spaces for both Caribbean and Mexican migrant workers to dialogue and strategize in their own terms
- send workers care/reading packages to their farms to ease isolation and depression