Events
March 23
Radio Segment on CiTR 101.9 FM
4:00-5:00 PM
Interview with Oscar, a migrant farmworker from Colombia.
Recording Available:
March 24
Essential yet Exploited: Towards Justice for Migrant Farmworkers
5:00-7:00 PM
KPU Richmond, Wilson School of Design Rm 4900 (8771 Lansdowne Road, Richmond) and Online via Zoom
March 24
Bike Kitchen Skills Night
6:15-9:00 PM
Room 36, UBC Life Building
6138 Student Union Blvd.
Vancouver, BC
March 25
For Migrant Justice, with Migrant Activists: An Embark Community Kitchen Event
5:30-9:30 PM
SFU Burnaby Campus
Student Union Building
Community Kitchen, Room #2125
March 26
Food & Labour Justice For All
12:00-1:30 PM
SFU Burnaby Campus
Applied Science Building ASB
Room #10900, 8888 University Drive West
March 30
Panel: Intersectional Injustice in Canada’s Food System
7:00-8:30 PM
UBC Campus
Liu Institute for Global Issues, 6476 NW Marine Dr, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2
Dinner included!
March 31
Radio Segment on CiTR 101.9 FM
Interviews with:
Rene, a migrant farmworker from México;
and Gabriel, a former migrant farmworker from St. Lucia who now organizers for migrant justice.
Recording Available:
March 31
Short film screening + Discussion
5:00-7:30 PM
UBC Campus
West Mall Annex, 1933 West Mall
Guest Speakers
Gabriel Allahdua (he/him)
Gabriel is a former migrant farm worker from St Lucia, an island in the Eastern Caribbean. He has been an organizer with the collective Justice for Migrant Workers (J4MW) for almost a decade. He is currently an Outreach Worker working with migrant workers across Ontario and Education and Mobilization Officer with the Association for the Rights of Household and Farm Workers (DTMF). He was Activist in Residence (AIR) at the University of Guelph, the first person to hold that position, which brought activists and researchers together. He is the author of the recently published award winning book “Harvesting Freedom” by publisher “Between the Lines”.
Regina Baeza Martinez (she/her)
Regina is a migrant rights organizer with Justice for Migrant Workers (J4MW) BC. She is a recent graduate of the Sociology Master’s program at Simon Fraser University, where her research explored how migrant farmworkers in Canada build community through transborder exchanges that defy their legislated disposability.
Aaraón Díaz Mendiburo (he/him)
Aaraón holds a PhD in anthropology, an MA in social work, and a BA in communication sciences from the National Autonomous University of Mexico. His research focuses on health, education, employment, social representations, and intercultural relations in the lives of agricultural migrants in Canada, their families, and their communities of origin and destination. Aside from his numerous academic publications both in English and Spanish, he also mobilizes from his research and activism through filmmaking. As such he has directed and produced 3 films about agricultural workers to Canada and their families on the other side of the migration spectrum, namely Migranta con M de Mamá (Migrant Mother) (2020), Matices Migración “Temporal” en Canadá (Matices “Temporary” Migration in Canada) (2011), and Migrantes: los que venimos de adentro (Migrants: Those Who Come from Within) (2007). He is currently working on a fourth documentary about activism against cannabis stigma in North America.
Evelyn Encalada Grez (she/her)
Evelyn is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and the Labour Studies Program at SFU. She is the co-founder of Justice for Migrant Workers (J4MW), a collective that has been at the forefront of the migrant farmworker movement in Canada for over 20 years. She is an award-winning scholar and organizer that specializes in transnational labour-migration, migrant justice, and community-engaged research.