ts also about turning back the clock on equality rights. Free trade agreements and international financial institutions are undermining equality rights and creating even greater disparities among people within nations and between nations.
Already heavily marginalized in low-wage, non-union jobs, women, workers of colour and Aboriginal workers, no matter where they live, stand to lose the most. In countries of the South, where globalization is the most advanced, worsening work, domestic and environmental conditions are the norm, hitting women and children the hardest.
And globalization has a direct impact on immigration policies. There are increased restrictions on the movement of people in order to advance economic interests. Even as money, goods and services move without restriction, people from other countries are used both at home and abroad as a cheap source of labour. Immigration policies that are based on using people as cheap sources of labour promote further intolerance and discrimination.