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Against all nationalisms
Nandita Sharma responds to Phil Henderson’s review of her new book, “Home Rule.” She argues that instead of providing us with freedom and justice, national liberation struggles have delivered us to capital and to sovereign power. As a result, rejecting nationalism – all nationalisms, including indigenous nationalisms “from below” – is critical to anti-colonial struggle.
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Baby book: Documenting undocumented motherhood
An undocumented mother’s baby book for her son chronicles the experience of pregnancy, birth, and motherhood without immigration status in Canada.
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Stitching together a movement
At its best, Briarpatch stitches together the fragments of a progressive community across so-called Canada, quilting a powerful movement for collective liberation.
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Decolonizing Relations on Treaty 4 territory
Indigenous people, immigrants, and settlers in Regina’s Decolonizing Relations group discuss land, labour, and solidarity.
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Migrant workers are the present and future of low-carbon care work
Migrant workers are keeping us alive through catastrophes like COVID-19, but they face an impossibly complex, punitive, and high-stakes immigration system. It’s time to completely overhaul the way we value those who do the most vital, life-giving work.
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Black Lives Matter in Rural Canada, Too
When we imagine rural Canada as white, we erase the history, present, and future of rural Black life – from Black Loyalist settlers to justice for modern migrant farm workers.
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Mistreated, marginalized, migrant
Following the deaths of three workers to COVID-19, the experience of migrant farmworkers in Canada has received unprecedented media attention. As a result, workers are winning long-overdue changes to their conditions. This timeline charts the wins and losses of migrant agricultural workers in Ontario during seven months of COVID-19.
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A world of many worlds
Is the idea of Indigenous sovereignty really in conflict with the well-being of migrant communities? A review of “Home Rule: National Sovereignty and the Separation of Natives and Migrants.”
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This is a prison, no matter what you call it
Activists are determined to halt the construction of a new migrant detention centre in Laval.
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The #UniteAgainstRacism campaign – what it is and why we launched it
Across the globe, right-wing politics are gaining ground by demonizing migrants and Others. These politics become particularly pronounced in election years. With the federal election approaching, we knew Canada was not immune.
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What’s in a just transition?
We convened a roundtable of activists from different movements to talk about what a just transition means to them, and what it looks like on the ground.
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Unbordering
In this world, a world where many worlds coexist, there would be no forced migration, no mass extinction.
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FOR THE DREAMERS
“In the palm of my hand, I delicately finger a pair of unfamiliar ID cards printed on worn pieces of coloured paper, yellow and salmon pink. The faded type reveals they were issued in the spring of 1941 with approval from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.” Creative non-fiction winner of the Writing in the Margins contest.
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If only they knew what we know now
I often wondered how many other young folks of Japanese ancestry had their history torn from them because of Canada’s history of Japanese internment – a pondering that eventually turned into this photography series, The Suitcase Project. Photography winner of of the Writing in the Margins contest.
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“They take my labour, but not my family”
The federal government is ending the Caregiver Program, which gave migrant caregivers a pathway to permanent residency. But caregivers are fighting back by demanding permanent residency upon arrival.
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Not One More Deportation
We must stop Lucy Francineth Granados’ deportation, and overhaul the sadistic and arbitrary case-by-case regularization system.
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What’s Happening to Sanctuary?
Immigration justice activists are pressuring city councils across Canada to create sanctuary cities. Can undocumented migrants rely on promises that municipal service providers won’t co-operate with the Canada Border Services Agency?
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Trading On Mobility
The Trans-Pacific Partnership expands the role of private businesses in determining workers’ access to Canada and their mobility rights.
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Coyote Mothers of the Niagara Region
Winner of our fourth annual creative writing contest in the poetry category.
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Health Care and Immigration Policies that Kill
Addressing the deadly intersection of unjust health care and immigration policies.