Migrant Mothers Project
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The Migrant Mothers Project is a collaborative research project led by Rupaleem Bhuyan at the University of Toronto in partnership with a network of service providers, legal advocates, community health workers, and grassroots women.
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Item Negotiating Social Rights and Social Membership on the Frontlines of Service Delivery to Migrants with Precarious Status(CERIS—The Ontario Metropolis Centre, 2011-01) Bhuyan, RupaleemWhile Canada welcomes migration for economic purposes, a growing number of migrants remain excluded from the rights of citizenship and thus comprise a vulnerable population with limited access to social and health services. Through an interpretive policy analysis of service delivery to women with precarious immigration status in Toronto, this paper examines the role of anti-violence against women service providers in negotiating social rights and social membership for women with precarious migratory status in Canada. Service providers‟ discretion in their everyday interactions with immigrants provides opportunities to advance the human rights of migrant women. Amidst devolutionary trends and the privatization of social services, however, I argue that both individual service providers and the organizations in which they work exercise self-discipline to monitor and constrain the degree to which they openly challenge state authority to restrict immigrants‟ rights in Canada.Item How Immigration Policy Shapes Advocacy with Im/migrant Women(2011-11-01) Bhuyan, RupaleemItem Survivor Voices Toronto Workshop Summary(Migrant Mothers Project, 2012) Migrant Mothers ProjectItem Migrant Women and Social Service Providers Responding to Changes in Immigration Policy(Migrant Mothers Project, 2013) Migrant Mothers ProjectItem Digital Stories: Mi Hope(Migrant Mothers Project, 2013) Migrant Mothers ProjectItem Niagara Region Forum Summary(2013) Migrant Mothers ProjectItem Vancouver Forum Summary(Migrant Mothers Project, 2013) Migrant Mothers ProjectItem Community Forum in Kitchener-Waterloo(Migrant Mothers Project, 2013) Migrant Mothers ProjectItem Windsor Forum Summary(Migrant Mothers Project, 2013) Migrant Mothers ProjectItem Ottawa Forum Summary(Migrant Mothers Project, 2013) Migrant Mothers ProjectItem Montreal Forum Summary(Migrant Mothers Project, 2013) Migrant Mothers ProjectItem Digital Stories: My Eyes have been Opened(Migrant Mothers Project, 2013) Migrant Mothers ProjectItem Digital Stories: Immigration to Canada(Migrant Mothers Project, 2013) Migrant Mothers ProjectItem Unprotected and unrecognized: The ontological insecurity of migrants who are denied protection from domestic violence in their home countries and as refugee claimants in Canada(CERIS – The Ontario Metropolis Centre, 2013-02) Bhuyan, Rupaleem; Osborne, Bethany; Cruz, Janet F JOver the last fifteen years, Canada has received an increasing number of women from Mexico and Central America who are submitting refugee claims based on domestic, social, and political violence, and on the failure of political and judicial institutions in their home countries to protect them. This group of female humanitarian arrivals, however, has been largely denied refugee status. While gender-based claims are statistically more likely to be successful relative to other types of claims in Canada (Osgoode Hall Refugee Law Professor Sean Rehaag, personal communication, April 4, 2012), claims based on spousal or domestic violence are overwhelmingly dismissed or denied, primarily because women cannot verify that their home country failed to protect them (MacIntosh, 2009). This paper involves an intertextual analysis of Canadian refugee policy and narratives from interviews with twenty-five Spanish-speaking women living with precarious migratory status in Toronto, Canada. In particular, we explore in what ways the interplay of refugee determination and the Third Safe Country Agreement produce multiple forms of liminality (or precarious migratory status) for female asylum-seekers in Canada. We also explore in what ways exposure to violence contributes to ontological insecurity (or a lack of security rooted in their very identity) that women face in their countries of origin, during episodes of transit between and through different national spaces, and as refugee claimants in Canada.Item Digital Stories: Inequality Continues(Migrant Mothers Project, 2014) Migrant Mothers ProjectItem Digital Stories: Healing the Hurt(Migrant Mothers Project, 2014) Migrant Mothers ProjectItem Digital Stories: Leaving My Child Behind(Migrant Mothers Project, 2014) Migrant Mothers ProjectItem Unprotected, Unrecognized Canadian Immigration Policy and Violence Against Women, 2008-2013(University of Toronto, 2014) Bhuyan, Rupaleem; Osborne, Bethany; Zahraei, Sajedeh; Tarshis, SarahIn 2013, The Migrant Mothers Project conducted research to understand how immigration and refugee policies impact the safety of immigrants who have a precarious status. Since 2008, the Canadian government has introduced an unprecedented number of legislative and regulatory changes that have impacted immigrants’ and refugees’ access to legal representation, access to social and health services, and pathways to permanent residence. We wanted to understand how immigration policy changes are impacting how community based organizations work with women with precarious immigration status, especially in cases where women are seeking safety from violence. Over the past two decades, anti-violence against women advocates have grappled with intersecting oppressions that impact women’s efforts to flee or recover from violence. When Linda MacLeod and Maria Shin were commissioned by Health Canada to study the service delivery needs of immigrant and refugee women, they emphasized that many immigrants and refugees who are abused are isolated due to language and cultural barriers, racism, the ‘strangeness’ of their environment and the power that their immigration sponsors held over them. Supporting refugee claimants, immigrants who were facing sponsorship breakdown, and developing programs to address language barriers, ethno-cultural diff erences, and queer and trans people in immigrant communities emerged as key concerns in anti-violence against women programs and services. More recently, organizations have identified immigration status as a pivotal factor that increases vulnerability to abuse and neglect .Item Policy Brief: Pathways to Permanent Residence(Migrant Mothers Project, 2014) Migrant Mothers ProjectItem Community Resources(Migrant Mothers Project, 2014) Migrant Mothers Project
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