Webinar: Gender Equality for Migrant Women and Gender-Diverse People in Canada – Reflections from the Middle of the Pandemic (WSN Spotlight)

This week the IFPTE Women’s Solidarity Network spotlight is featuring a webinar organized by the Women’s Legal Education & Action Fund (LEAF). The topic: "Gender Equality for Migrant Women and Gender-Diverse People in Canada – Reflections from the Middle of the Pandemic" asks what gender equality means for migrant women and gender-diverse people in Canada in 2021. Specifically, how do Canadian laws and policies on migrant labour impact personhood? How has mainstream feminism historically participated in denying the personhood of migrant women and gender-diverse people in Canada? What is the impact of devaluing groups of people and treating them as expendable sources of labour, despite the fact that their work serves an essential purpose in our daily lives? What steps need to be taken to recognize and affirm the personhood of migrant women and gender-diverse people?

Panelists will discuss how discriminatory labour policies have been reinforced throughout Canadian history, leading to a denial of personhood for migrant workers. Panelists will also unpack how the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the existing systemic inequalities for migrant women and gender-diverse people and discuss ways in which migrant women and gender-diverse people have organized to expose the injustices they face in order to reassert their personhood.

 Join the webinar February 25, 2021 from 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM EST. Register here.