Mostafa Henaway

Jan 23, 2025 | breachmedia.ca | Mostafa Henaway

Amazon has a message for its army of precarious workers worldwide: dare to unionize and you will be punished. After failing to thwart a historic unionization drive in Quebec, Amazon is now shuttering all its operations in the province, laying off nearly 2,000 workers. The move is a brazen attempt to punish workers in the province who achieved what many thought impossible.

Aug 18, 2024 | breachmedia.ca | Mostafa Henaway

In the winter of 2020, at the outset of the pandemic, the Immigrant Workers Centre where I’m an organizer brought together a group of migrant workers for a Zoom meeting. It was a snapshot of the precarious lives of those who make Canada’s economy run. There was Julius, a Nigerian refugee who had risked travelling from the United States as he feared being deported. He and his wife arrived on foot, walking over Roxham Road near the Lacolle border crossing in Quebec, like thousands of others.

Sep 18, 2023 | fernwoodpublishing.ca | Mostafa Henaway

Migrant justice scholar and activist Mostafa Henaway will deliver the NB Media Co-op’s 14th annual keynote address— Wednesday, September 20 — at 7:00 p.m. by Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/96331578152Mostafa Henaway will talk about his new book, Essential Work, Disposable Workers (Fernwood). The Madhu Verma Migrant Justice Centre and Fernwood Publishing are co-hosting the event.

Aug 23, 2023 | fernwoodpublishing.ca | Harsha Walia |Mostafa Henaway

Across the world we are witnessing daily the lethal effects of a rapid and scary hardening of borders, ignited and justified by manufactured fear and scarcity. In such conditions, highly exploitative ideas of “managed migration” are presented as reasonable and just. And temporary worker programs, championed by countries like Canada and the US, are presented as an acceptable response to both acute labour shortages and ugly nationalist feelings.