Last Updated: Nov 6, 2014
IMMIGRATION POLICY DOES NOT RECOGNIZE THE SPECTRUM OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
by Rosa Elena Arteaga
by Rosa Elena Arteaga
ABSTRACT
Through this presentation we will address the urgent need for a systemic response to violence against Non-Status, Refugee, Immigrant women and women with precarious immigration status as these communities are being impacted by the current immigration policy and practices in Canada. More than ever women and their families are being displaced all over the world. Consequently, through our work with these communities we have witnessed a sexist, racist and classist immigration system and systemic practices that limit women’s access to safety and freedom. We see an Immigration system that is Gender bias in criteria and in its rules that determine eligibility to immigrate and to stay in Canada. As well as we have witnessed how this criteria does not acknowledge the spiral of gendered violence, where women are faced with discrimination and gendered violence from the moment they are born and though out their lives.
Through this presentation we will address the urgent need for a systemic response to violence against Non-Status, Refugee, Immigrant women and women with precarious immigration status as these communities are being impacted by the current immigration policy and practices in Canada. More than ever women and their families are being displaced all over the world. Consequently, through our work with these communities we have witnessed a sexist, racist and classist immigration system and systemic practices that limit women’s access to safety and freedom. We see an Immigration system that is Gender bias in criteria and in its rules that determine eligibility to immigrate and to stay in Canada. As well as we have witnessed how this criteria does not acknowledge the spiral of gendered violence, where women are faced with discrimination and gendered violence from the moment they are born and though out their lives.
Rosa Elena Arteaga
Battered Women’s Support Services (BWSS) Vancouver Rosa Elena is wildly passionate about her work which is framed in a narrative, feminist, anti-oppression, practice. She is an active agent of change towards eradicating violence against girls and women. She has been the manager of direct service and clinical practice with Battered Women’s Support Services for the last ten years. Rosa Elena has been working in the anti-violence field for over fifteen years delivering workshops on gendered violence to service providers to a provincial and national level. Rosa Elena has integrated progressive practices into her work with non-status, refugee, immigrant women and women with precarious immigration status. Website: www.bwss.org |