In this workshop, all participants play the role of migrant workers. The Collaborative Network will provide facilitators and a narrator. In addition, two Collaborative Network members will take on the role of employers.
Participants are led through the stages of recruitment, arrival, harsh realities, additional coercion, recourses, outcomes, debrief and action. They will learn about the rampant exploitation of migrant workers and the role that all Canadians play.
They also learn of possible actions to end exploitation and improve workers’ conditions.
This was all was inspired by the KAIROS Blanket Exercise which raises awareness among Canadians about the impact on past and ongoing colonization of the Indigenous Peoples in Canada.