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There needs to be interaction between feminist demands in the country of origin and feminist demands in France, Lalami claims, as this is a necessary step to remove obstacles and inequalities that weigh on immigrant women.

The new Asylum and Immigration bill—the 20th in 40 years—entitled “Controlling Immigration, Improving Integration” has already provoked major controversy against the political class and spurred the mobilization of associations defending the rights of foreigners.

In France, immigrant women are subject to the Algerian Family Code, the Moroccan Moudawana, and the Egyptian personal status law… a door open to all forms of discrimination.

Women have long been organizing collectively to counter the ways in which they are marginalized from the world of work and from decision-making positions, but in recent years, new networks have emerged and membership levels in existing networks have also significantly increased.

Children and women, the elderly, people living with disability… have all come to know that dumpsters are the only refuge left for them in a city that “has enough lovers to fill up the world but is blue enough to drown five continents.” Finding ways to survive in this city has become an ordeal for the Syrians who have stayed.

In the Atlas Mountains, women weavers work in the shadows in difficult conditions, for the profit of traders who get rich off their labor.

For the past ten years, migrant women have been both a pillar for and a challenge to the feminist movement in Spain. Their latest victory secured them the recognition of fundamental labor rights for domestic workers. Some of these women have founded the La Comala cooperative.

Victims of trafficking networks set up between Tunisia and Côte d'Ivoire, Ivorian migrant women recruited as domestic workers find themselves in situations of extreme vulnerability. This reality is also manifested in the way migrants are currently being hunted down in Sfax, following a confrontation between sub-Saharan migrants and Tunisians which led to the death of a Tunisian. The conflict was triggered by the racist statements of Tunisian President Kais Saied. Investigation.

Journalists across the Mediterranean are facing mounting challenges in carrying out their profession due to an increasingly oppressive media environment in the region. When they do not pay with their lives after publishing brave investigative work, like Gauri Lankesh (India) and Daphne Caruana Galizia (Malta), both assassinated in 2017, women journalists are more often than not hindered by the authorities they disturb. They are threatened by Decree 54 in Tunisia, imprisoned in Turkey when addressing the Kurdish question, harassed by agro-food lobbies in France, while in Palestine , they find themselves "stuck between the occupation’s bullets and the oppression of the authorities". Additionally, media outlets in Algeria, as in many...

Her boss attacked her when she defended her idea. Immediately, he used his disciplinary power to send her, through the legal affairs of the Syrian press institution where she works, a warning and a threat of severe punishment if she continues to “raise her voice during discussions.”