[BCFSN] Fwd: Launching Multilingual Border Guide for Refugees from U.S

[Dawn Morrison]

Hi All,

Please share widely the message below. I feel it's highly relevant to food
sovereignty through a social justice lens. Any crimes against humanity, is
a crime against us all. Many of the refugees have been displaced by the
same global forces of coloniality, capitalism and climate change that are
dispossessing Indigenous peoples from our land and food system. We owe to
ourselves and society to raise awareness and look for intersectionality all
the work we do.

Please share widely.


Dawn Morrison,


Working Group on Indigenous Food Sovereignty
C/O 555 East 55th Avenue
Vancouver, B.C, V5X 1N6
Mobile: 778.879.5106
Email: dmo6842 at gmail.com
Websites: www.indigenousfoodsystems.org
https://wildsalmoncaravan.wordpress.com/







---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Harsha Walia <hwalia8 at gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 7:21 AM
Subject: Launching Multilingual Border Guide for Refugees from U.S
To:




*LAUNCHING: Border Rights for Refugees*





*SHARE WIDELY: https://noii-van.resist.ca/?p=6487
<https://noii-van.resist.ca/?p=6487>On Facebook: http://bit.ly/2nGjoC0
<http://bit.ly/2nGjoC0>​​​​​​On the heels of Refugee Rights Day, a free
multilingual guide for non-U.S. citizens coming to Canada from the U.S. to
make a refugee claim.*

Thousands of refugees are crossing the Canada-U.S. border, many fleeing
escalated sociopolitical, white supremacist, misogynist violence and I.C.E
raids in the U.S.

In the first two months of this year, approximately 2000 refugee claims
were filed
<https://www.thestar.com/news/immigration/2017/03/07/refugee-advocates-worry-canada-will-push-us-for-border-crackdown.html>
at land ports of entry along the Canadian border. In Quebec alone there are
six times more
<http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-us-border-1.4011792>
land-border refugee claims than in the same period last year. RCMP have
intercepted
<http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/illegal-border-crossers-arrested-this-year-nearly-half-of-all-caught-in-2016/article34362204/>
or arrested (not yet charged) 1,134 refugees - nearly half as many asylum
seekers in three months as all of the previous year.

Hundreds have been forced to cross irregularly under dangerous and
life-threatening
circumstances
<https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/07/us-refugees-canada-border-trump-travel-ban>.
People who have contacted us and our networks are primarily from Somalia,
Syria, Iraq, Turkey, Djibouti, Ghana, Nigeria, and Mexico.

*The Canadian government and corporate media's rhetoric about 'welcoming
refugees' is misleading.* There are many discriminatory and unjust
barriers, such as the Safe Third Country Agreement that the Canadian
government refuses to rescind
<http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/safe-third-country-agreement-to-stay-pledges-immigration-minister-1.4046998>,
and a difficult legal system for refugees to navigate if coming through the
U.S. This guide is to better inform and support those making the difficult
decision to cross yet another colonial border.

The guide is produced by No One Is Illegal and the Immigration Legal
Committee of the Law Union of Ontario. Supported by the African-Canadian
Legal Clinic.

Translations are available in Arabic, Amharic, Chinese (Simplified), Farsi,
Filipino (Standardized), French, Haitian Creole, Kurdish (Sorani), Punjabi,
Spanish, Somali, Tamil, Tigrinya, Twi, Urdu, Vietnamese.

*Freedom to stay, move, and return!*


-- 
https://twitter.com/HarshaWalia
http://www.akpress.org/undoing-border-imperialism.html
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