Tag: Women Living at the Margins

Even in vulnerability and economic, social, and legal marginalization, women are not equal to men. But this doesn’t include their fighting spirit and their astounding capacity to resist and revive themselves. Because women, in fighting for their survival and that of their children, manage to address injustice head-on.

In the province of Caserta, EVA, a women’s cooperative, has been active since 1999. It runs five anti-violence centers, three shelters, and three businesses to help women who have been victims of violence on their road to autonomy.

“Ahyini Liyoum waktolni ghedwa” (Make me live today and kill me tomorrow)—this popular saying is what S.D. sent us as a response to our asking her about retirement…

Marta Luceno Moreno, a feminist and researcher in gender, works on intersectionality and is particularly interested in the issue of migration of sub-Saharan women. An interview.

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.