Political advocacy and education

The RHFW and its members regularly produce analyses, reports, and submissions, often in collaboration with partners to achieve a variety of rights education activities.

Selected reports & briefing notes

Des bassins de travailleurs captifs et échangeables pour les employeurs? Les permis sectoriels et autres permis restrictifs ne sont pas la solution. Mémoire au Comité permanent de la citoyenneté et de l’immigration (CIMM) de la Chambre des communes (2023)

Pools of captive, exchangeable workers for employers? Sectoral and other restrictive permits are not the solution – Brief to the CIMM House of Commons Standing Committee (2023)

Encore de la poudre aux yeux: Plus de formation et surveillance par la CNESST inutile sans permis de travail ouvert, services de placement multi-gouvernementaux et accès au statut permanent (2023)

Canada’s Unfree Foreign Worker Schemes’ Smokescreens: Change of Employers Procedures, Restrictive Work Permits, and Conditional Access to Permanent Status – executive summary (2023)

Foreign Worker Unfreedom in Canada: Human Rights Issues and Recommendations – executive summary (2023)

Admission de travailleurs (im)migrants au Québec: Réforme nécessaires (2023)

Options for Quebec RE: Tied Work Permits (2023)

Necessary reforms to end migrant worker unfreedom in Canada (2023)

Non-respect of foreign workers’ fundamental rights in Canada: Synthesis of the main issues (2022)

Prohibition to change employers for (im)migrant workers: A Constitutional challenge (2022)

Interdiction de changer d’employeur pour les (im)migrants est-elle justifiable dans une société libre et démocratique? En route vers une réponse judiciaire (2022)

SAWP-Contracts 2021: The Most Problematic Clauses (2022)

Band-aid on a bullet wound: Open work permits for employer-tied migrant workers facing workplace abuse (2021)

Joint Response to the CBSA’S Trafficking in Persons Questionnaire (2021)

Mémoire à la Commission de l’économie et du travail de l’Assemblée nationale sur le projet de loi nº59 (2021)

Regulatory and Policy Developments in Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Programs (2019)

Les aides familiaux et travailleurs agricoles migrants, le droit canadien et le travail non-libre (2018)

Migrant Care and Farm Workers, Canadian Law, and Unfree Labour (2018)

Care Worker Voices for Landed Status and Fairness (2018)

Migrant Caregivers, Canadian Immigration Policies and Human Trafficking (2018)

Necessary reforms for the respect of migrant caregivers’ fundamental rights in Canada (2018)

Selected analysis by our members

No or conditional access to permanent status: Infringement on the Rule of Law/(Im)migrant workers’ right to access justice (Eugénie Depatie-Pelletier 2023)

Canadian Borderlands: Equality Rights for Temporary Migrant Labourers Under Section 15 of the Charter (Seth Gordon 2023)

Band-Aid on a Bullet Wound—Canada’s Open Work Permit for Vulnerable Workers Policy (Eugénie Depatie-Pelletier, Hannah Deegan & Catherine Berze 2022)

State restriction of workers’ rights to equality, liberty, security and access to justice through employer-tied labour (im)migration programmes: The Canadian example (Eugénie Depatie-Pelletier, Hannah Deegan & Marie-Eveline Touma 2021)

Feminist Consitutionalism in Defense of Migrant Domestic Workers (Lauriane Palardy 2020)

Le recrutement des travailleurs agricoles saisonniers en vertu du programme des travailleurs agricoles saisonniers : Étude des conditions de recrutement des travailleurs et travailleuses provenant du Mexique (Gabrielle Morneau El-Hajal, 2020)

When governments create unfreedom: rehumanizing migrant domestic workers (Myriam Dumont-Robillard 2019)

Geopolítica de las Emociones: masculinidades y subjetividades de los trabajadores agrícolas transmigrantes mexicanos y guatemaltecos que laboran en Quebec (Lina Maria Campos-Flores 2019)

Employer-tied labour migration vs migrant workers’ right not to be held in involuntary servitude: Lessons from the UK, Isreal, and USA (Eugénie Depatie-Pelletier & Hannah Deegan 2018)

Labour Migration Program Declared a “Modern Form of Slavery” under Constitutional Review: Employer‐Tying Policy Impact vs Mythical “Harm Reduction” Measures (Eugénie Depatie-Pelletier 2018)

L’obligation de résidence chez l’employeur imposée aux travailleurs agricoles et domestiques migrants au Canada : une atteinte à leur droit constitutionnel à la liberté (Lissia Vathi 2017)

Moving the Temporary Labour Migration Debate to the Fundamentals: Employer/Agent-Bonded Migrant Workers as Victims of State Violations of Human Rights (Eugénie Depatie-Pelletier 2015)

Accès à la justice pour les travailleuses domestiques migrantes: une illusion? (Myriam Dumont Robillard 2015)

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