European Network of Migrant Women
WORLDPLACES: WORKPLACES WORKING WITH MIGRANT WOMEN
Across the European Union, migrant women encounter substantial barriers in accessing and retaining employment, enjoying as a result fewer opportunities for integration; on another hand, workplaces are formidable integration hubs. Nonetheless, not every workplace is equally accessible to low-skilled migrant women – this results in exclusion from integration processes and work life. Leveraging on workplace-based practices for integration, WorldPlaces aims to brint together the public and non-profit sector with for-profit employers in multi-stakeholder, permanent local networks, to bridge at once the integration and gendered gaps.
This is why we are partnering in the WorldPlaces project: our collective goal is to promote better and more fulfilling integration of migrant women in the workplace. To do so, we will build a series of toolkits and conduct actions and workshops across Europe on different themes: engagement of migrant women, leadership, work-life balance, workplace-based language and culture exchange, body and identity.
Our partners:
- Quid (Italy)
- SPEAK (Portugal)
- Generation 2.0 (Greece)
- Universidad de Vigo (Spain)
- Grand Beauty (Germany)
- Impact HUB (Austria & EU-wide)
PROJECT RESULTS
TOOLKIT ON MEANINGFUL ENGAGEMENT AND INTEGRATION OF MIGRANT WOMEN
OCTOBER 2022
The WorldPlaces project involves partners in Italy, Portugal, Greece, Belgium, Austria and Germany, as well as European-wide organizations such as the European Network of Migrant Women. The collective goal of the consortium is to promote better and more fulfilling integration of migrant women in the workplace. To do so, the project aims to build a series of toolkits and conduct actions and workshops across Europe on different themes: engagement of migrant women, leadership, work-life balance, workplace based language and culture exchange, body and identity.
The goal of the “Meaningful engagement and integration of migrant women” Toolkit is to provide advice and good practices on the topic of meaningful engagement and integration of migrant women. The pedagogical materials displayed have been tailored for the specific needs of the consortium of the WorldPlaces project but can be applied by any organisation providing services to or working at grassroot level with migrant, asylum seeking and refugee women and girls.
This toolkit focuses primarily on providing a methodology for activities regarding confidence-building, body and identity and cultural heritage, as well as safe-space building for women and girls of migrant background. By promoting a better understanding of the problems faced by migrant, asylum see- king and refugee women in Europe, by encouraging professionals to develop intercultural and feminist approaches, and by breaking down the prejudices about migrant women, this toolkit aims to promote dialogue and mutual understanding between different communities.
This toolkit was produced by Arab Women Solidarity Association (Belgium) in the framework of a transnational project funded by the European Union Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund and implemented by a partnership consortium comprising the lead partner Quid (Italy), European Network of Migrant Women (EU wide), Impact Hub (EU wide), Speak (Portugal), Generation 2.0 (Greece), and University of Vigo (Spain).
