Exposing, Resisting, Developing Alternatives

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Exposing, Resisting,Developing Alternatives

• A Roadmap from Practical Needs
• To Strategic Interests
• To Envisioning Alternatives

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Vision of transnational/global/cosmopolitan
Citizenship

• Deconstruct citizenship entitlements which are
  linked to localities, nationality, race,
  ethnicity, class, caste, gender
• Deconstruct power relations mechanisms of
  exclusion segregation
• Rights entitlement travel with the migrant
• Global social rights... harmonisation of rights
  at local, national international level
• Need of international regulation legislation to
  ensure universal rights transnational
  citizenship

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Another world is possible

• Peace
• There is enough for everybody sustainable
  livelihood, living with dignity buen vivir
  for all everywhere... no forced migration, no
  brain care drain
• Freedom to stay or to migrate
• Transnational citizenship global social rights

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Multi-dimensional Strategies

• Dual strategy frontline service policy
  intervention/reframing of policies
• Triangle of solidarity actions Prevention
  protection sustainable policy solutions
• Support individual claims for rights struggle
  for structural transformation
• Inside (lobby/policy intervention) outside
  (radical) strategy
• Dual perspective rights livelihood in the
  country of destination in the country of origin
• Short term, medium long term strategies
  perspective

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Integration....Participation...Representation

• Overcome exclusion segregation
• Integration not assimilation
• Participation instead of integration
• Speak for themselves, right to organise
  leadership
• Political participation right to municipal
  elections after staying 5 years
• Participation of migrant women in EU policy
  making the EU project of gender equality

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Reconstruct Public Images Discourses -Change
the Mindset

• Counter stereotypes of unskilled, service
  providing, desperate migrant women - Shift
  concept to skilled, empowered, decision making
  actor in the market and in the community
• Counter victimisation, empower survivors agents
• Contest discourses which reduce migrants to
  commodities, economic factors remittances
• Expose resist categorisation hierarchisation
  of migrants

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Intersection of gender, labour migration

• Acknowledge the contribution of migrant labour to
  the economy social reproduction in the country
  of destination origin
• Recognise care/domestic/sex work as work
• Recognise diplomas from country of origin
• Regulate care/domestic/sex work (e.g.minimum
  wage), enforce labour rights entitlements to
  social security
• Right to organise form own union for collective
  bargaining...
• ....but no solution to gender division of labour
  crisis of care social reproduction

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Intersection of neoliberal policies, market
economy migration

• Scandalise power relations, inequalities rights
  violation
• Politicise intersection of class, racism, sexism
  migration regimes
• Expose neocolonial exploitative policies
  practices, e.g. name shame TNCs, trafficking
  agencies role of governments
• Resist national international policies which
  subordinate human rights, global social rights
  gender equality to the trade investment regime,
  the neoliberal economy the respective migration
  regimes

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Change of EU-Policies

• Bottomline Decriminalisation of migration, right
  to stay, legalising undocumented workers,
  recognise domestic workers as workers
• Expose the neoliberal trade investment regime
  exploitation of resources in the South East as
  root causes for forced migration/trafficking
• Expose the intersection of racism, sexism human
  rights violation in migration policies
• Lobby EU-governments to ratify UN-convention on
  migrants enforce other international
  conventions, human rights gender equality
  commitments

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Reconfiguration of Nation State Migration
Regimes

• Resist neoliberal policies which destroy people's
  livelihoods prolonge poverty
• Exert pressure on state to protect citizens from
  trafficking, slavery gender related violence
• Demand policies which eliminate poverty,
  redistribute resources promote economy of
  solidarity
• Design non-racist, non-sexist, non-exploitative
  migration regimes informed by human rights,
  equality dignity
• Reconfigure citizenship

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Solidarity - Networking Movement Building

• Need of transnational civil society alliances
• Identify communalities, build common agenda
  joint campaigns
• Build bridges between migrants local people,
  between feminists other social organisations
  trade unions, link different struggles
• Deconstruct classes, racism competition among
  migrants
• Create space for migrants' voices organisations
• Break South East North divide

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Yes, we can! Together!

• Let's create our own agenda for change !