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(From June 18-25, Solidarity Across Borders, a coalition of refugees,
migrants, and their supporters, will be marching from Montreal to Ottawa
to make demands for regularization on Immigration Canada. The following
article seeks to explore and outline the analysis and politics behind this
march.)

Status, Survival, and Solidarity
Non-Status people and the politics of precarity

by Aaron Lakoff and Seth Porcello

Just a few weeks ago, Manuel, a 19-year old refugee, sat alone in a jail
cell in a detention center in Laval, just north of Montreal. Frightened
and tired, he awaited his deportation back to Mexico. It was one of those

Listen to an interview with Amir, an Egyptian refugee living in Montreal, and member of Solidarity Across Borders and No One is Illegal.

To download or listen to the interview, visit:
http://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=12787

From June 18-25th, 2005, immigrants, refugees, and their supporters will be walking from Montreal to Ottawa to demand rights for non-status people living in Canada. Solidarity Across Borders, coalition of groups (many of them self-organized refugee groups) who are working around migration issues, is the group who is putting this march together.

Amir is an Egyptian refugee who has been living in Montreal for the last two years. He is an outspoken activist for the rights of non-status people, and is very involved in both the Solidarity Across Borders, and No One Is Illegal campaigns.