Women in Exile
www.women-in-exile.net
︎ @women_in_exile
︎ Women in Exile & Friends
︎ Women in Exhile
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Germany
Border Abolition
Lager (Camp) Abolition
Feminism
Reproductive Justice
Migrant Justice
Women in Exile is an initiative of refugee women founded in Brandenburg in 2002 by refugee women to fight for their rights. We decided to organize as a refugee women’s group because we have made the experience that refugee women are doubly discriminated against not only by racist laws and discriminative refugee laws in general but also as women*.
In 2011 ‘Women in Exile & Friends’ was formed where activists in solidarity without refugee background joined the fights. Together we fight for the abolition of all laws discriminatory to asylum seekers and migrants and on the interconnections of racism and sexism. One of our central demands from the start is: “No Lager for Women! Abolish all Lagers!” More about us on our website: Women in Exile & Friends (women-in-exile.net)
We visit the “collective accommodation” in Brandenburg to offer proactive support to refugee women from the perspective of those affected, to exchange information on what is going on and to gather information on the needs of women living in Heims. In our newsletter, we publish reports from women living in the Heims and also offer information on current refugee policies through empwerment workshop, collect materials in different languages and distribute them to the refugee women.
We network with different antiracist and feminist group and plan actions together. We organise our own actions to exchange, empower and network such as local and national bus tours to connect with other refugee women. The empowering workshops encourages refugee women to fight for their rights in the asylum procedure and to defend themselves against sexualized violence, discrimination and exclusion. We demonstrate, give interviews to the media and speeches in meetings to let society know of the problems faced by refugee women and the demands of refugee women.
Our focus is to empower refugee women to know their rights and become self-reliant and to be the ones who determines their own destinies in improving their situation. In workshops, creative actions, bus tours or events like the "Building Bridges Festival", the celebration of our 20 years anniversary, with the topic “Breaking Borders to Build Bridges” or our collectivly written book with the same name, the refugee women* raise their voices and get loud. The main goal of the group is "the utopia of a just society without exclusion and discrimination, with equal rights for all people, no matter where they come from or where they go".
In 2011 ‘Women in Exile & Friends’ was formed where activists in solidarity without refugee background joined the fights. Together we fight for the abolition of all laws discriminatory to asylum seekers and migrants and on the interconnections of racism and sexism. One of our central demands from the start is: “No Lager for Women! Abolish all Lagers!” More about us on our website: Women in Exile & Friends (women-in-exile.net)
We visit the “collective accommodation” in Brandenburg to offer proactive support to refugee women from the perspective of those affected, to exchange information on what is going on and to gather information on the needs of women living in Heims. In our newsletter, we publish reports from women living in the Heims and also offer information on current refugee policies through empwerment workshop, collect materials in different languages and distribute them to the refugee women.
We network with different antiracist and feminist group and plan actions together. We organise our own actions to exchange, empower and network such as local and national bus tours to connect with other refugee women. The empowering workshops encourages refugee women to fight for their rights in the asylum procedure and to defend themselves against sexualized violence, discrimination and exclusion. We demonstrate, give interviews to the media and speeches in meetings to let society know of the problems faced by refugee women and the demands of refugee women.
Our focus is to empower refugee women to know their rights and become self-reliant and to be the ones who determines their own destinies in improving their situation. In workshops, creative actions, bus tours or events like the "Building Bridges Festival", the celebration of our 20 years anniversary, with the topic “Breaking Borders to Build Bridges” or our collectivly written book with the same name, the refugee women* raise their voices and get loud. The main goal of the group is "the utopia of a just society without exclusion and discrimination, with equal rights for all people, no matter where they come from or where they go".
