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By: Marijana Zugic, Paul Thompson, Chanequa Anderson, Bushra Siddique, and Nadine Kwana

Introduction + Analyzing Roles

Transgender Uxbridge man says his life will be in danger due to his sexuality if he's deported to native Brazil Saturday November 24, 2012. Silvani Marques, 37, engineer, has been taking hormone treatments and dresses full-time as woman. He shows picture of himself wearing different women's dresses as part of an online gallery. Marques claims Brazilians ''do not tolerate transgender or homosexuals'' and he faces life of discrimination on his return to Sao Paulo. Being deported because he's failed refugee. "I am really worried about my personal safety and the discrimination I face," Marques said on Thursday. "Transgender people are not widely accepted in Brazil." He arrived in Canada in 2007 and applied to remain as a skilled worker. He claims he didn’t receive a response and in 2010 filed an unsuccessful refugee claim that led to his removal.

Conclusion

Silvani Marques was deported back to Brazil Saturday November 25,2012 due to his lack of information on his application for skilled worker, instead of when he submitted the application he did not put that he was a female that he was a man which caused confusion because on the application when you check mark whether your a male/ female there is not other for those who are going through a change in their life phyiscally or mentally. He arrived in Canada in 2007 and applied to remain as a skilled worker. He claims he didn’t receive a response and in 2010 filed an unsuccessful refugee claim that led to his removal. Silvani claims a homosexual person is killed in Brazil every 26-hours and a transgender is 15-times more likely to be killed than a gay man. Silvani life is at risk due to the high rates of killings that happened in Brazil towards these groups of people. He also claims that his parents will not talk to him due and will be in a shelter when he returns back home, Marques speaks four languages and his resume states he holds a Master’s Degree in Industrial Management from Brazil and certificates from the University of Toronto. But Officials of the Canada Border Services Agency said anyone who does not have legal status in Canada will be removed (The Toronto Star, 2012).

Transgendered man in Uxbridge fears deportation to Brazil

-SILVANI MARQUES-

References

  • http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/story/canadian-centre-policy-alternatives-nova-scotia-releases-first-ever-alternative-hrm-municipal- (Retrieved on Dec 1st, 2012)
  • http://www.torontosun.com/2012/08/23/transgendered-man-in-uxbridge-fears-deportation-to-brazil
  • http://www.nclrights.org/site/PageServer?pagename=about_contactus
  • http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/department/media/releases/2011/2011-03-24.asp
  • http://www.camh.ca/en/hospital/care_program_and_services/addiction_programs/Pages/rainbow_links.aspx

  • Shabon, R. (2012). Introduction to the Immigrant & Refugee Sector-WIR 100: Course Notes & Power-point Slides. Fall Semester, Seneca College, Toronto ON., Canada.

  • Handbooks from Sherbourne Health Centre – Support Our Youths (SOY) and 519 Community Centres (2012).

Other Social Issues

-Lack of support and resources for transgender people

-Alienation

-Discrimination

-Insecurity

As a Future Social Worker:

I would provide the right information that Silvani will need in order to complete his application, I would get him a translator if he needs help to fill out the application for skilled worker. I would make sure he will complete the application and full every space provided, I would review the application with him and tell him how long the process will take to get his status, I will try to keep him updated with his application and tell him his rights in Canada as a skilled worker.

Settlement Services Available/ Organization

1. Legal Aid clinics if she is not able to afford a lawyer. Some of these legal services could be recommended through other services that are available for the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Trans-gender Community (LGBT).

Brazil

Questions

Protective Rights of Silvani Marques

1. The Charter of Human Rights endorsed by the United Nations.

  • Do you think it was fair that the Canadian government decided to deport Silvani Marques? Why or why not?
  • Under Article 33
  • The UN Rights Treaties

Settlement Services Available/ Organization

2. Under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms:

Entrenched in the Constitution of Canada 1982 – preceded by the Canadian Bill of Rights 1960.

  • What do you think should have been done instead of deporting Silvani Marques?
  • The Human Rights Act
  • Discrimination

Settlement Services Available/ Organization

2. The Sherbourne Health Centre Programs for LGBT youths and young adults called Support Our Youths (SOY).

with the Support Our Youth Program (SOY) which support youths from the downtown Toronto communities who are from the Lesbian Gay Bi-sexual and Transgender Community (LGBT).

This organization is located at: The Sherbourne Health Centre, 333 Sherbourne Street, Toronto ON; M5A 2S5.

Telephone: 416-324-5082

Fax: 416-324-4259

www.sherbourne.on.ca

www.soytoronto.org

3. The 519 Church Street Community Centre, called “The 519”, is a public-private partnership of the City of Toronto. As a Canadian charitable, non-profit community centre in the Church and Wellesley neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario,

The Centre serves both its local neighbourhood and the broader lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) communities in the Toronto area.

Programs run by the 519 include:

• AIDS Memorial

• Anti-Violence Program (AVP)

• Anti-Poverty and Homelessness

• Family and Children

• Counselling and Advice

• Older LGBT

• Queer Immigrants and Refugees

• Trans

• Groups

Contact information

519 Church Street Toronto, ON M4Y

(416) 392-6874

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