Feminist Forum on Migration & Displacement (FFMD)
The FFMD brings together grassroots migrant women leaders, organizers, and allies from around the world to confront shared challenges, build collective analysis, and shape an intersectional feminist migration policy agenda from the bottom up.
Why This Gathering Matters—Now
At a moment when global rights are eroding and migrant communities face intensifying discrimination, criminalization, and displacement, the FFMD created a rare physical space for movement building among grassroots, migrant-led groups. Held alongside the AWID Forum in Bangkok, the gathering enabled participation from regions and communities that are often excluded from global policy discussions. With donor support enabling full or partial funding for 23 participants, the FFMD became a vital space for connection, analysis, and strategy—grounded in lived experience and shared feminist visions for justice.
What We Did Together
The FFMD convened 110 participants from 35+ countries in a three-part process designed to move from storytelling to strategy:
- Telling Our Stories, Building Analysis: Participants shared lived realities, community struggles, and collective aspirations for justice.
- Identifying Core Issues & Exploring Power Dynamics: Thematic groups examined the key structural challenges affecting migrant and displaced women.
- Affirming Our Organizing & Shaping Our Demands: Participants consolidated strategies and demands to strengthen feminist advocacy at local, regional, and global levels.
This process directly contributed to WIMN’s development of the Feminist Migration Policy Agenda (FMPA).
Core Themes We Explored
Across seven intersecting areas, participants mapped challenges, power structures, and pathways for feminist action:
- Climate–Migration Nexus
- Care Work & Temporary Labor
- Militarized Borders & Criminalization
- Impacts of War & Conflict
- Challenging Discrimination (racism, xenophobia, GBV, identity-based bias)
- Building Regular Pathways (family unity, labor formalization, migration cycles)
- Political Participation, Union Rights & Freedom of Association
These themes form a foundation for continuing cross-movement organizing and policy influence.
Who Participated
110 participants, representing a powerful cross-section of movements:
- 58 grassroots leaders
- 40 feminist allies and NGO leaders
- 12 donors and international agencies
Participants joined from every region:
Latin America (9), Africa (9), Asia (39), Caribbean (1), Central Asia/Eastern Europe (9), WANA/MENA (12), North America (14), Pacific (1)
Interpretation was provided in Arabic, Bahasa Indonesia, English, French, Russian, Spanish, and Thai, ensuring full access and participation.
Impact
Participants collectively advanced core feminist demands, including:
- Gender justice for women in all their diversities—farmers, migrant workers, fisherfolk, sex workers, refugees, and more.
- Social protection and essential services for all migrant and displaced women, regardless of status, ethnicity, or religion.
The gathering produced a growing body of data, analysis, and movement demands that will inform the global Feminist Migration Policy Agenda and future advocacy.
What’s Next
The FFMD laid the groundwork for expanded cross-movement dialogue—across regions, along migration corridors, and through thematic conversations (e.g., migrant LGBTQ+ communities, migrants with disabilities, climate-migration). WIMN also envisions hosting another international gathering in the coming years, continuing to build global feminist power.
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