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Articles by Harald Bauder
When Foreign Workers Lose, South African Workers Don’t Win
I recently met Edward behind the counter of a coffee shop in Cape Town. As he prepared my coffee, he told me about the very different life he had since arriving in South Africa from Zimbabwe. His first job was cutting sugar cane for 150 Rand a day. He lost that job because local protesters demanded that his employer hire South Africans instead of foreigners.
Migration governance between sovereignty, security and rights: An analysis of the literature
INTRODUCTION The concept of migration governance has been gaining popularity in the scholarly literature within and beyond the fields of migration and refugee studies, and the disciplines of political science, sociology and human geography. Markedly, the concept also is shaping policy making related to international migration.
Urban migrant and refugee solidarity beyond city limits
Introduction Cities are often sites of resistance against restrictive and repressive national and global migration and refugee policies and practices. In the USA, the UK and Canada such cities are known as sanctuary cities (Bauder, 2017b); in Continental Europe and Latin America they assume labels such as solidarity cities or cities of refuge (Christoph and Kron, 2019; Koellner, 2019).
Migrant workers have paid their dues and should be given a path to permanent residency
Home Page Election 2019 News Opinion Foreign Policy Politics Policy Legislation Lobbying Hill Life & People Hill Climbers Heard On The Hill Calendar Archives Classifieds Hill Times Events Inside Ottawa Directory Hill Times Store Hill Times Careers The Wire Report The Lobby Monitor Parliament Now Subscribe Free Trial Reuse & Permissions Advertising Log In By Harald Bauder, Jenna Hennebry August 5, 2020 It is a popular misconception that Canada does migrant workers a favour by allowing them to...
Indigenous input vital to a just immigration policy
By Harald BauderContributor Fri., July 24, 2020timer3 min. read The outrage against systemic racism following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis has once again brought into sharp focus the violence experienced by Indigenous people in Canada. A key responsibility of Canadian settler society is to address a root problem of centuries of colonialization that underlies this violence: the settling of the land through immigration without Indigenous consent or consultation.
Indigenous input vital to a just immigration policy
By Harald BauderContributor Fri., July 24, 2020timer3 min. read The outrage against systemic racism following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis has once again brought into sharp focus the violence experienced by Indigenous people in Canada. A key responsibility of Canadian settler society is to address a root problem of centuries of colonialization that underlies this violence: the settling of the land through immigration without Indigenous consent or consultation.
Migration Borders Freedom (Open Access)
International borders have become deadly barriers of a proportion rivaled only by war or natural disaster. Yet despite the damage created by borders, most people can’t – or don’t want to – imagine a world without them. What alternatives do we have to prevent the deadly results of contemporary borders? In today’s world, national citizenship determines a person’s ability to migrate across borders. Migration Borders Freedom questions that premise.
Why Canada's Right Lied About The UN Migration Compact
On December 10, the governments of 164 states adopted the Global Compact for Migration in Marrakech, Morocco. However, a handful of countries, most notably the U.S. but also Australia, Austria, Hungary, Poland and Israel, among others, denied their support after right-populists launched a massive campaign of misinformation and propaganda.
Why Are U.S. Borders Straight Lines?
More than a century before the U.S. Civil War, between 1735 and 1737, Maryland and Pennsylvania had their own war, of sorts. The result of this conflict would be the survey of the Mason-Dixon line, a potent symbol of the separation between the North and the South. Its reasons for existing are, ultimately, a cartographic error, an inconsistency between two charters, which led to violence in the first half of the eighteenth century.
Why cities hold the key to safe, orderly migration
Cities respond very differently to migration. Many cities are supportive, boost the rights of migrants and reap the benefits of migration. The mayors of these municipalities are frequent panelists and speakers, extolling the virtues of migration, and proudly proclaiming that the future of migration is local. Other cities, however, seek to restrict migration and actively exclude migrants from social, economic and political participation.
Sanctuary Cities: Policies and Practices in International Perspective
Sanctuary cities in the USA, UK, and Canada aim to accommodate illegalized migrants and refugees in their communities. The concept of the “sanctuary city,” however, is highly ambiguous: it refers to a variety of different policies and practices, and focuses on variable populations in different national contexts.
Sanctuary City: Toronto’s signal to Ottawa and Queen’s Park
City council last week adopted a motion reaffirming the city’s “commitment to ensuring access to services without fear to immigrants without full status or without full status documents.” This motion — spearheaded by the Solidarity City Network, a coalition of diverse organizations such as Social Planning Toronto, Parkdale Community Legal Services and No One is Illegal and moved by Councillor Joe Mihevc — effectively declares Toronto Canada’s first “sanctuary city” that appreciates and serves...
It's Time For Canada To Truly Open Its Borders
Between Jan. 1 and April 30, 7,600 asylum seekers crossed irregularly from the U.S. into Canada and were apprehended by the RCMP. Theseborder crossings are often blamed on a tweet by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau from January 2017 in reaction to U.S. President Donald Trump's travel ban: "To those fleeing persecution, terror & war, Canadians will welcome you." I suggest that Trudeau's well-intended tweet did not go far enough.
The Case for Open Borders
A country’s borders carry a lot of meaning, beyond simply the geographic limits of a state. Explains academic Harald Bauder, “Borders serve as a tool to manage national labor markets, foreign affairs agendas, and security concerns; they create identities of belonging and non-belonging.” This question of belonging is front and center on the international stage right now, and there are few topics more relevant than immigration.
Sanctuary Cities Like Toronto Are Democracy's Last Stand
Cities have always been the hotbed of political innovation -- starting with the origin of democracy in ancient Greece. It is no accident that the words "city" and "citizenship" have the same origin. In medieval Europe, serfs gained their freedom from feudal bondage when they moved to a city; after living there for a year, they were free members of that community. Sanctuary cities today are doing the same thing -- at least they try.
Let's Give Cities A Greater Role In Managing Migration
National borders have become deadly barriers, rivaled only by war and natural disaster. Migrants who succeeded in crossing national borders are often disenfranchised and exploited. Can this problem be addressed by granting cities a greater role in managing migration? The International Organization for Migration estimates that more than 4,300 persons have died or went missing along migratory routes worldwide so far in 2016; more than 3,200 perished in the Mediterranean alone.
Opinion | Canada’s immigration system undergoing quiet, ugly revolution
Ottawa has quietly made massive changes to our immigration policy as if those changes have nothing to do with the kind of society Canadians want to build for the future. By Morton Beiser Harald Bauder Mon., May 12, 2014timer4 min. read updateArticle was updated May. 13, 2014 Canadians are rightly upset about recent scandals involving the temporary foreign workers program.
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