Manuel Salamanca Cardona

McGill University | McGill · Department of Integrated Studies in Education (DISE)

Prompted by economic uncertainties, socio-political instabilities, wars, persecutions or environmental changes, migrants seek refuge, safety and hope via perilous routes and journeys. Beyond responses to crises there is an important aspect of migration, especially in a long-term perspective, that requires sustainable, long-lasting solutions: the so...

Private, for-profit recruitment and employment agencies are key intermediaries connecting migrant workers from abroad to employers in Canada. Despite this, there is a lack of effective regulation of recruitment agencies by the Canadian federal and provincial governments. The objective of this article is to provide a snapshot of the problem, based o...

This chapter addresses learning and nonformal education in the course of organizing migrant and immigrant (im/migrant) temporary agency workers through the Immigrant Workers Centre (IWC) and the Temporary Agency Workers Association (TAWA) in Montreal. The IWC/TAWA organizing approach with agency workers is based on community organizing, activist kn...

In this document we describe our experience relocating precarity and resiliency by way of arts activism, to denounce and make visible social injustices experienced by im/migrant communities in Montreal. Under the umbrella of the Immigrant Workers’ Centre, and other allies from the im/migrant workers’ movement, we combine knowledge building, action...