Diwa Marcelino: Community Organizer with Migrante Manitoba

Millions of people are forced to leave their home country to find work. Each individual journey is filled with hope to rebuild and have a better life, but once they settle in their new home, the hardship doesn’t always stop there. Migrant workers face a much higher risk of vulnerability to exploitation in the workplace in large part because of their limited access to information and support networks, networks not just in social networks within governance framework, but networks that we take for granted like our relatives and friends.On this Humans, On Rights episode, Stuart meets with Diwa Marcelino. Diwa is a community organizer with Migrante Manitoba, a Canadian grassroots organization that advocates for the rights and welfare of migrant workers.“We need to take a look at the unjust laws that allow migrant workers to come to Canada with a precarious status which leads to exploitation. The rights that we've had for hundreds of years, migrant workers still don't have many of them. And that's a travesty - that's a shame for a so-called democracy like Canada.” - Diwa MarcelinoA Transcription of the episode is available here.