North Star Dialogues for change: Confronting migrant injustice in the new era of immigration policy

Our inaugural dialogue, Confronting migrant injustice in the new era of immigration policy, features leading voices in legal advocacy, research and lived experience to examine what recent immigration policy shifts actually mean, who they affect and what a more just immigration system could look like. While pathways to permanent residency are narrowing, precarity is deepening. Too often in the public sphere migrants are made the scapegoats for policy failures in housing and health care—while their role as essential members of our workforce and our communities is (conveniently) rarely recognized. This dialogue traces the links between policy decisions and their effects on migrants’ lived realities—and challenges the harmful, racist, narratives that often surround this topic. Panelists: Amanda Aziz, Staff Lawyer, Migrant Workers Centre Byron Cruz, Sanctuary Health Collective, Vancouver Syed Hussan, Executive Director, Migrant Workers Alliance for Change Jennifer Shaw, Researcher Migrant Care Workers Project Moderated by Véronique Sioufi, Racial Equity Researcher and Policy Analyst, BC Policy Solutions. Go to https://bcpolicy.ca/northstar2026 to view the list of resources mentioned in this webinar.