Women and Gender Studies InstituteWomen and Gender Studies Institute
A new documentary film about how a social justice organization based in Oakland, California—Asian Immigrant Women Advocates (AIWA)—focused on building long-term collective leadership of limited-English speaking immigrants, and empowered women and youth to become powerful agents of social change.
University of Toronto sponsors: Centre for the Study of Korea; Gender Migration and Work of Care project, Centre for Global Social Policy; Department of Sociology; and the Women and Gender Studies Institute.
Co-sponsors: Workers Action Centre; Justicia for Migrant Workers; Asian Canadian Labour Alliance; CAW Sam Gindin Chair in Social Justice and Democracy, Ryerson University; Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival; Humanities, Social Sciences and Social Justice Education, OISE; Closing the Enforcement Gap project, York University; Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto; Canadian Labour International Film Festival.