Ten organizations, mostly run by immigrant women and designed to defend the rights of these groups, are part of this Working Committee “intends to be a space of visibility of migrant women to advocate for immigration policies that affect women and their environment.”
For them, it’s not important to talk about immigration because it is in fact a process, a change, but the important thing is to talk of a ready-made reality, women and migrated, with their families, and their rights as citizens as part of the host society, so their goal is to influence politically. The Bureau of Labor is considered as a tool to achieve this goal.
It is necessary to empower women, when you get that includes their environment to enhance the effect, they said in their statements some of the representatives of the organizations that make up the Bureau of Labor. The migrant women are often, very often the providers of their families and, despite the daily difficulties we have to earn a spot in front of their partners, the fact is that they are an engine of the economy and this reality is also reflected in other areas.
Member organizations of the Working Committee are: the Cultural, educational and social, operational Pakistani women (Acesop), the Association of sub-Saharan immigrant women (Adis), Diaspora Solidarity, the Latin American Federation of Catalonia (Fedelatina) the Federation of Peruvian in Catalonia (FEPERCAT), the group of women migrate to Sant Cugat, the Young American Integration association, Maloka – Women and the Platform Q’atary Pa’lante Peru.
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