Building Analysis
We use popular education and collective processes to shape our understanding, starting from women’s lived experience and building towards national, regional and global understanding of gender and migration. We explore women’s experience of multiple and intersecting oppressions.
WIMN has used popular education and forums to listen to women’s realities and build collective analysis. This includes, for example, a 2010 workshop in Mexico City, a 2012 workshop in Manila, Philippines, and a 2016 workshop at the UN CSW in New York. In each case, we advance our analysis from this collective process.
We moved from a “migrant women” organization to a “Women in Migration” organization, as partners of migrants, families seeking missing migrants, and migrants who had been deported all shared how they are part of migration realities, though not as migrants. Most recently, WIMN created regional dialogues to explore migration from an intersectional lens and webinars on climate and on labor and migration, which have advanced our collective analysis. We bring these insights to our advocacy.
Migration, Displacement and Human Rights in West Asia and Asia Pacific regions: The Climate Crisis and its Impact on Women´s Livelihoods The Women in Migration Network (WIMN), with the support of Solidarity Center, hosted this virtual event on January 19, 2023.
The webinar was an important component in WIMN’s work to develop a feminist analysis of migration and climate change, addressing intersections, structural issues, and concrete impacts as well as differences in analyses and policies. The nexus of gender, climate and migration is an important element in WIMN’s aim to build a collective, grassroots-driven Feminist Migration Policy. The conversation explored how climate change and extreme weather events impact women’s livelihoods, and how those impacts may lead to displacement and/or migration.
Examples of our work building analysis
No Borders To Equality Report, 2021
- Download the report, No Borders to Equality (full color version) (black and white version)
- Download the Executive Summary: (English) (Spanish – Resumen Ejectivo) (French – Resume Operationnel)
- Avila, Migrant Women Realities, CSW Parallel event
- Barton presentation to Rutgers students on Women and Migration
- Barton, IOM, 9-13-21 Bridging Gap Btwn Research and Practice– COVID 19 Gender Migration
- Cyment, Paola and Gottardo, Carolina, The Global Compact for Migration: What could it mean for women and gender relations? Gender & Development Volume 27, 2019 – Issue 1: Migrants in a Global Economy
- Cyment, Paola and Gottardo, Carolina, How COVID-19 affects Women in Migration, Blog
- Stephan Rother, Global Migration Governance from Below, Actors, Spaces, Discourses. Palgrave MacMillan 2022. Brief chapter on WIMN’s advocacy work, pp. 93-96.
- Bastia , Tanja and Piper, Nicola, Women migrants in the global economy: a global overview (and regional perspectives), Gender & Development, 28 Mar 2019
- In 2021, WIMN collaborated with the Migration Research Division of IOM on a forthcoming publication, ‘The COVID-19 impacts on migration and migrants from a gender perspective’ funded by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada. The report compiles 16 short papers exploring different impacts of COVID-19 from a gender perspective in order to inform policy and programmatic responses. Carol Barton participated in an inception workshop with researchers and presented at a thematic session. WIMN also peer reviewed two of the articles.
Our Throughlines
While multiple factors drive migration and impact migrants, WIMN has focused on three priority throughlines in our organizing and advocacy: Climate Change, Labor Rights, and Regularization. Here are some examples of how our work Building Analysis intersects with and impacts these throughlines.
A work in progress…please check back soon!
