The Migration, Gender and Development Network states that community care is not present in Catalonia.
Last Tuesday, 9 May, the Migration, Gender and Development Network presented the report entitled “Community care to sustain life”and released a documentary entitled “Community care in the context of migration and racism”.
Both the report and the documentary are the result of the collaboration of a series of entities that have made this process of sharing knowledge and reflections on community healing possible.
The Migration, Gender and Development Network, together with Calala Women’s Fund and with the support and funding of the Catalan Agency for Development Cooperation, have promoted this collective initiative with the aim of highlighting the existence of other viable logics for sustaining life in community, often not visible or not recognised by states or present in their public policies.
In this collective rethinking, the Anti-racist Network of Tarragona, the Madrecitas collective of Barcelona, the Association of Sub-Saharan Migrant Women of Granollers, the Mika Sororidad Internacionalista del Maresme Collective, the Néctar Association of Guatemalan Women of Barcelona and the Diversas 8M collective of Girona have also actively participated in this collective rethinking.
Making the report and documentary public represents a further step in the process of collective reflection and construction on community healing and demonstrates the importance of collaboration between diverse entities to address issues affecting vulnerable communities.
The presentation highlighted the importance of the methodologies that make it possible to decolonise knowledge and the recognition of those who have the experience to speak of their territories, who are the people themselves. The relevance of coexistence and reciprocity of mutual recognition, as expressed in African traditions by the concept of “ubuntu”, was also pointed out.
Catalonia: a revealing survey: Where are the community care policies?
The analysis of the survey of 100 professionals concluded that There is a lot of talk about the community but we don't think about community, we don't build community, we don't work from the community, and in public policies the community does not exist.
Care is not a priority as a collective action. Because care goes beyond the action of caring for people in dependency or caring for health. Care means sustaining life, beyond human life and creating community to sustain it.
A 42% of les 100 respondents argues that Community Care is a strategy of resistance to the onslaught of capitalism, where individualism, competition and indifference are perpetuated as part of the colonial civilising process.
Voices from Tarragona, Girona, Maresme, Barcelona and Granollers demand community care policies to eradicate racism and to stop seeing migration as an identity criterion that is perpetuated over time.
Being a migrant is a condition, not an identity, we Here we want to build community, not in terms of integration, but in terms of transforming life, eradicating racism, violence, capitalism and everything that affects human dignity.
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