ImmigrantChildren.ca Archive

Category: Advocacy

  • Transnational families

    The Nanny Economy is the title of a National Post item in the Saturday edition (February 23/08). From the story:

    “More than 6,000 Filipinas arrive in Canada under the federal government’s live-in caregiver program. They make up more than one in five female immigrants to Canada and more than nine out of 10 of the live-in caregiver program’s participants”.

    The story outlines the issues in the live-in caregiver program, which brings many women to Canada to care for Canadian children, while leaving their own children behind.
    For more on transnational families, see Bernhard, J., Landolt, P. & Goldring, L. (2005). Transnational, multi-local motherhood: Experiences of separation and reunification among Latin American families in Canada. Joint Centre of Excellence for Research in Immigration Studies (CERIS), Working Paper No. 40, or for a summary see Policy Matters No. 24, January 2006 at the CERIS website.
    Also see INTERCEDE for the Rights of Domestic Workers, Caregivers and Newcomers. INTERCEDE is a non-profit community-based organization that works to “support the integration, promote the rights and provide service needs of domestic workers, caregivers, temporary or migrant workers, their families”.

  • Canadian Council for Refugees winter working group meetings

    The Canadian Council for Refugees (CCR) winter working group meetings will be held February 22-23, 2008 in Toronto.
    The working groups provide a forum for CCR members and other refugee and immigrant rights advocates to come together to share information and to work together in areas of common concern.
    The CCR working groups meet four times a year. Two of these meetings take place during the semi-annual CCR consultations. The other working group meetings take place in February (in Toronto) and in September (in Montreal).
    From the CCR website: “The working group meetings offer an excellent opportunity to:

    • Participate in efforts to promote refugee protection and resettlement, and the settlement of refugees and immigrants
    • Discuss in depth pressing issues affecting refugees and immigrants in Canada
    • Share information and strategies with others from across Canada”.

    Fri. Feb 22nd meeting: Inland protection working group & Immigration and settlement working group.
    Sat. Feb 23rd meeting: Overseas protection and sponsorship working group.