Trade Agreements, Economic Policies and Immigration Enforcement: Working Together to Displace Communities and Exploit Workers

This workshop seeks to address on trade agreements and migration. Using the context of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, we hope to highlight the displacement of working-class residents, the limitation on sustainable work, and exploitation that is happening with migrant workers as a case-study on how the global economy is increasingly controlling the flow of migrants to channel them as labor commodities. We also hope to engage workshop participants into strategizing how we can collectively organize to gain better protections for migrant workers immediately, and then how we can reverse the tide of such global economic policies. The workshop will be a mix of brief panel presentations and interaction among other workshop participants.