Migrant Matters

Migrant Matters

Migrant Matters navigates through the interconnected issues that limit the freedom of people to move across borders (of all kinds) and stay wherever they choose. We bring into focus the individual faces and unique stories of migrant workers, "non-status" people, and racialized working-class immigrants, who are often left out of mainstream media. Airs monthly.
Migrant Matters

Canada's support for an undeniably apartheid state

March 22, 2011
| Alan Sears, professor of sociology and founder of Faculty for Palestine, talks about the Palestinians' long struggle of being uprooted from their homeland, and denied freedoms and status.
Length: 18:43 minutes
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Torturing Omar Khadr since he was a child at Guantánamo

February 25, 2011
| The latest on Khadr's case. The horrors of his ongoing detainment. Why and how the Canadian goverment has supported his torture.
Length: 31:29 minutes
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The Cuban 5 are still behind bars 12 years later

December 13, 2010
| Their heroism and innocence denied, the Cuban 5 have remained in jail since their arrest 12 years ago. Lawyer Lorne Gershuny shares the latest on the case and speaks about its political significance.
Length: 34:57 minutes
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Behind local produce: Temporary work permits leave working-poor migrants open to exploitation

November 29, 2010
| Everyday throughout the growing and harvest seasons, non-citizen people put in day-long exhausting labour so that Canadians can eat at convenience and inexpensively.
Length: 34:58 minutes
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Thousands support Palestinians' right to education at World Education Forum, Montreal activist denied entry to Palestine

November 19, 2010
| Stefan talks about being refused into Palestine, education as a tool for emancipation from Israeli apartheid, and how international solidarity helps fight the occupation and apartheid.
Length: 17:10 minutes
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Burma's prescripted Nov 7 polls to prolong military rule

November 6, 2010
| Dr. Naing Aung talks about how the military has control of the upcoming elections in Burma, prolonging legitimacy of the military domination over the Burmese people.
Length: 31:55 minutes
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Spotlight on life in a Kenyan refugee camp

November 1, 2010
| Former refugees tell their story of people living in a refugee camp in Kenya.
Length: 33:50 minutes
Migrant Matters

More accounts of martial law at Toronto G20 protests: Sema's arrest story (5 of 5)

October 25, 2010
| Sema talks about police repression, including her own arrest and detention, at the protests.
Length: 17:53 minutes
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More accounts of martial law at Toronto G20 protests (4 of 5)

October 18, 2010
| Another protester speaks out about the police brutality and indiscriminate arrests at the Toronto G8/20 protests.
Length: 17:27 minutes
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Thinking critically about the Canadian immigration system (3 of 3)

October 15, 2010
| Who's let in? Who's left out? And why? Does the Canadian government care about how migrants live or just how much they can work?
Length: 52:03 minutes