International Migrants Alliance - IMA

07/02/2025

07/02/2025

The Marcos Jr administration’s optimism over the labor market shows it deliberately ignores Filipino workers’ reality.

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07/02/2025

WORD OF THE DAY: ✨ "AJ o Assumption of Jurisdiction" ✨

Ang Assumption of Jurisdiction ay isang kautusan na inilalabas ng kalihim ng DOLE sa mga labor dispute sa isang industriya na "mahalaga sa pambansang interes".

Ang AJ ay magdudulot ng awtomatikong pagtigil sa anumang welga o lockout, at oobligahing agad magbalik sa trabaho ang mga manggagawa at ituloy ang operasyon ng kumpanya (status quo).

Maaaring humingi ng tulong ang Kalihim o ang Komisyon sa mga pwersa ng estado (AFP at PNP) para tiyakin ang pagsunod ng mga manggagawa sa mga utos. (Article 278 [263] (g), P.D. 442, Labor Code)

USE IT IN A SENTENCE! USE IT 🗣️

1) Atake ang ✨ AJ ✨ sa karapatang magwelga ng mga manggagawa. Dapat itong biguin at labanan.

2) Kontra-manggagawa ang ✨ AJ ✨ na ipinataw ni Laguesma sa welga ng Nexperia workers

3) Maraming welga na in-✨ AJ ✨ ng Reyna ng AJ na si Patricia Sto. Tomas. Ilan dito ang Hacienda Luisita at Sulpicio Lines.

07/02/2025

Research at the Royal Holloway University of London finds that loss of social support, loss of identity, discrimination and racism, and financial obligation to the family were some of the sociological and economic factors associated with the mental health of Filipino migrants in the UK.

Importantly, participants highlighted four main coping strategies: maintaining faith or religion, being part of a support network, strengthening cultural identity through family ties, and fulfilling roles like providing financial support to their families. Additionally, those who migrated voluntarily saw their move as a blessing and a meaningful life choice, which helped them navigate challenges. These factors, along with a sense of social and economic advantage, played a significant role in enhancing their resilience.

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Source: https://pure.royalholloway.ac.uk/en/publications/how-does-migration-impact-on-mental-health-and-emotional-wellbein

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07/02/2025

06/02/2025

Happening today!!

Join NAFCON & Migrante USA for an urgent press conference on the recent attacks on Filipino migrants under Trump’s administration.

Hear from members of the Tanggol Migrante Network on recent ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) raids targeting Filipinos in the suburbs of Chicago, IL, as well as the inhumane conditions that Filipinos in ICE detention face.

Register at tinyurl.com/dmcpresscon25.

Join NAFCON & Migrante USA for an urgent press conference on the recent attacks on Filipino migrants under Trump’s administration.

Hear from members of the Tanggol Migrante Network on recent ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) raids targeting Filipinos in the suburbs of Chicago, IL, as well as the inhumane conditions that Filipinos in ICE detention face.

Register at tinyurl.com/dmcpresscon25.

05/02/2025

Migrante Canada Statement in Support for the Call to Impeach Sara Duterte
February 4, 2025

Migrante Canada stands in solidarity with the Filipino people, both in the Philippines and abroad, in demanding the impeachment of Sara Duterte for her corrupt misuse of government funds. We also call for an end to systemic corruption under the Marcos Jr. regime.

As overseas Filipinos, we strongly condemn Sara Duterte for squandering public funds—resources that should have been allocated to address the urgent needs of the Filipino people. These funds could have been used to improve public transportation, strengthen the healthcare and education systems, support local production, implement a family living wage, increase assistance for distressed OFWs, and enhance consular services, among many others.

Instead, the government continues to prioritize its fascist and corrupt agenda by allocating significant amounts of public funds to the unmonitored Confidential and Intelligence Funds (CIF) through the General Appropriations Act (GAA). This blatant misuse of resources further deprives the Filipino people of the essential services and support they rightfully deserve.

While we support the call to impeach Sara Duterte, we recognize the systemic corruption in the Philippine government, one that Marcos Jr. himself is complicit in and is greatly benefiting from. In fact, the office of the President has a larger budget for its Confidential and Intelligence Fund at Php 4.5 billion which goes unmonitored.

The welfare of the Filipino people, both in the Philippines and abroad, was never the Philippine government’s priority, and continues to be that way. In the 2023 budget, Marcos Jr. appropriated Php 210 billion in Defense and another Php 282.5 billion in Public Order and Safety and a significant increase in the 2025 budget where Marcos Jr. is allocating Php 256.1 billion ($4.38 billion USD or $6.27 billion CAD) for defence spending–budget that funds state terrorism against the peasant and Indigenous communities and people’s organizations.

With the intensifying government corruption and fascism, and the worsening economic and political crisis, the Filipino people continue to suffer. Thousands of Filipinos are left with no choice but to seek opportunities abroad. Over 7,000 Filipino men and women leave the country every day to support their families by working abroad. The remittances sent by OFWs in 2023 alone reached Php 239 billion, in stark contrast to the government budget for the Department of Migrant Workers of Php 16.1 billion, most of which do not go directly to protect and help the overseas Filipinos in need. While OFWs continue to face hardships in their host countries due to human trafficking, labour exploitation, abuse from employers, loss of wages due to wage theft, inhumane and precarious working conditions, and anti-migrant policies, among others, the Philippine government has either not responded or if has, it has not been timely, not sufficient, and not compassionate. Monetary assistance, legal help, access to resources have been found wanting.

Migrante Canada stands united in its call to impeach Sara Duterte and hold the US-Marcos Jr. government accountable for the intensifying government corruption and fascism that puts the Filipino people in even greater poverty and dire conditions, pushing them, in the thousands, to leave the country every day to work abroad.

There will never be just and lasting peace until we address the root causes of our forced migration and until the corrupt and fascist regime is not held accountable for their crimes against the people.






For reference:

Danilo de Leon, Chair, Migrante Canada
Chris Sorio, Secretary-General, Migrante Canada
[email protected]
www.migrante.ca | (Twitter | Facebook |Instagram)

05/02/2025

APWLD, together with Family Frontiers Malaysia, Kocun Seoul, and KABAR BUMI, are organising a hybrid side event, "Integrating Marriage Migration into the GCM Implementation: Ensuring Safe, Human Rights-Based, and Gender-Responsive Pathways”, on the upcoming 2nd Asia Pacific Regional Review of Implementation of Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM) on 6 February 2025 in the United Nations Conference Centre, Bangkok, Thailand.

📍Register here: bit.ly/MarriageMigrationatGCM2025

The side event will highlight the critical yet underexplored issue of marriage migration with emphasis to the lived experiences of women marriage migrants. Through this side event, we aim to seek actionable recommendations to integrate marriage migration into the GCM implementation framework and address the structural barriers of women marriage migrants.

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05/02/2025

Kia ora, ! LOOK: 🌟 Celebrate International Women's Day with us! 🌟 👩‍🦰👩🏽‍🦱👩🏿
Register here: https://tinyurl.com/Women2025

Let’s come together to hear inspirational stories from women, celebrate their wins, and connect with new friends. Together, we’ll stand united to advocate for an end to gender-based violence against women, children, and gender-nonconforming people. 👩‍🦱👧🏽🌈

📅 Mark your calendars:
Date: 7 March 2025, Friday
Time: 11:00 am to 1:30 pm
Location: Wesley Community Centre Gymnasium, 740 Sandringham Road Extn., 1041

👉 Spread the word, bring a friend, and make this International Women's Day a turning point for positive change. Your voice matters, and your presence can make a difference.

💖This event is a collaborative effort of Migrant Action Trust, Wesley & RYZ Centre, NZ Ethnic Women's Trust, Global Hope Missions, Belong Aotearoa, and Gabriela Aotearoa . 👭✨

03/02/2025

February 2025 is the Solidarity Month for the peoples of Burma.

For four years, the military junta has unleashed a brutal regime, plunging the country into chaos. The economy is in ruins, indigenous communities face relentless violence, and aerial bombings have devastated lives. Human rights violations are rampant, widespread hunger grips the nation, and job losses have left millions in despair. Stand with Burma in their fight for freedom, justice, and dignity.

Jan. 31 - Karen Revolution Anniversary

Feb. 18 - ZERO IN: BURMA [WEBINAR]
Register now: bit.ly/ZeroInBurma

Feb. 21-23 - Days of Action for the people of Burma





Co-organizers:
ILPS Commission 10
International Women's Alliance
International Migrants Alliance - IMA
Asia Pacific Network of Environmental Defenders - APNED
Int'l Indigenous Peoples Movement for Self Determination & Liberation
People's Coalition on Food Sovereignty - Global with Ground Zero

03/02/2025

Stop the Attacks on Immigrants in the United States!

IMA Global Statement on the Forced Mass Deportation and Imprisonment of Immigrants in the United States

February 3rd, 2025

The International Migrants Alliance strongly condemns US President Donald Trump’s fascist crackdown on immigrants in the United States of America (US).

An average of 710 arrests per day are being made under Trump, surpassing the Obama administration when daily arrests averaged 636 in 2013. During his first week in office, Trump signed 10 executive orders on immigration and issued a slew of edicts to carry out mass deportations and imprisonment of immigrants in the US, which included;

- allowing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to deport people without appearing before an immigration judge;

- ending a policy to avoid arrests at “sensitive locations,” including schools, hospitals and places of worship;

- ending the use of the “CBP One” application which allowed migrants to apply for asylum and enter the country on two-year permits with eligibility to work;

- ending a policy that allowed more than 500,000 people from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela to enter the US on two-year permits if they had a financial sponsor;

- pledging to end automatic or “birthright” citizenship for children born on U.S. soil;

- shutting down groups that provide temporary housing, job training and other support for undocumented immigrants, and;

- forcing legal aid groups to stop work on federal programs that help people in immigration courts and detention centers.

Trump is also using the military to facilitate the detention and transportation of immigrant civilians. Regularised military involvement in civilian law enforcement is a key indicator of a fascist dictatorship. Trump’s totalitarianism also extends outside of the US, threatening countries that resist or refuse his fascist policies. Trump threatened to raise tariffs by 25% on Colombia after President Gustavo Petro refused to allow two military planes to land with deportees in handcuffs and in conditions that were harmful to their dignity. Trump suspended the tariffs only after Petro reversed his decision, once it was agreed that the deportees would be transported by planes provided by the Colombian government, without handcuffs. Starting February 1st 2025, Trump also imposed tariffs on Mexico and Canada (at 25%) and on China (at 10%), in trade wars with those countries that will ultimately raise prices on the everyday needs of working people in the US.

As Trump tells immigrants to leave the US, the US refuses to leave the countries where it has more than 800 military bases and deep economic interests. In the same week the immigrant crackdown was executed, Trump pledged to accelerate the ‘clearing out’ of indigenous Palestinians from their homeland to make way for his property development. In the US itself, the US imperialists’ policies are the main causes of spending inflation, loss of income, violence and poverty. Outside of the US, the US imperialists are the number one invader, destroyer, thief and terrorist.

The IMA calls all organisations and institutions around the world to express public solidarity and protest against these fascist attacks against undocumented immigrants in the US. We call on all victims of forced migration and displacement in the US to unite with local community allies against our common enemy, the US State and its warmongering army. Lastly, we call on the United Nations to condemn and stop Trump’s forced deportation program and inhumane treatment of immigrants in the US.

Migrants and immigrants are an integral part of US society, and their absence will only worsen the economic crisis. The IMA also calls on international allies outside of the US to strengthen our fight against US imperialism and fascism in all parts of the world, by continuing to organise and mobilise people against any form of exploitation, oppression or injustice felt by our communities. All forms of organising are imperative to the united global struggle against US imperialism.

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Read the statement in Spanish, French (Canada), Indonesian and Tagalog on our website: www.wearemigrants.net

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