Promoting Intersectional Feminist Organizing
Women in Migration Network recognizes the multiple intersecting identities that women in migration experience and insists on a feminist analysis and practice that recognizes those identities. We work to build alliances with feminist, anti-racist, Black and Indigenous, LGBTQI+, Youth, Disability Rights, Migrant organizations in practicing intersectional organizing.
Examples of Our Work in Intersectional Feminist Organizing
- Robert Bosch Foundation publication, the Transformative Power of Intersectionality. Paola Cyment of WIMN is interviewed in the section on Intersectionality & Migration. In 2021-2022, WIMN was part of the Bosch cohort of grantees exploring intersectional organizing in practice. This new booklet, as well as a set of “Intersectionality Principles” (below) emerged from that process. See also: Principles for Intersectionality in Social Change Work: “Intersectionality is a prism, through which to look at the world”
- No Borders to Equality Report
- Global Mapping Of Organizations Working On Gender And Migration (view interactive map)
- Feminist Fridays — Conversations about Labor Migration from a Feminist Lens.
A collaborative initiative of Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID), Focus on Labour Exploitation (FLEX), Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women (GAATW), Solidarity Center, and Women in Migration Network (WIMN). 2021
- Gender Workstream and Race Workstream of the UN Network on Migration collaboration on a joint Anti-Discrimination Advocacy Tool
- Social Media Campaign Migrant Rights Day 2021. WIMN’s Bridging Gender & Migration videos:
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 Promoting Intersectional Feminist Organizing intersects with and impacts these throughlines.
This is a work in progress — please check back soon!
