Third cycle of Knowledge Sharing of the Migrant Justice Programme

In 2022, four workshops were held for migrant women in Spain, focusing on leadership, economic management, self-care and anti-racism. These workshops, supported by Calala and the MigraRebeldía Network, strengthen the migrant women's movement. Calala's Migrant Justice Programme provides resources and opportunities for activism.

Strengthening the migrant women's movement in Spain

This was the third cycle of workshops, in a process in which both the facilitators and the participants, all part of the migrant women's movement in Spain, came out stronger and stronger.

The themes addressed this year were:

Workshop on Leadership that strengthens, nurtures and flourishes, dedicated to “Resolving conflicts and leading from care”, “Organisational capacities to lead collectively”, “Shared knowledge on meaningful leadership” and “Roles and responsibilities with shared leadership”.

Workshop on Collective economic management from the imaginaries, knowledge and practices of migrant women, focused on “Money and me”, “Other Economies: feminist, community and solidarity-based economic approaches”, “Practical management workshop for associations: accounting, tax and labour obligations” and “Building effective collaborative alliances: a panel of regional experiences and learning”.

Self-care and collective care workshop, The topics discussed were “Psycho-corporal care”, “Migrant motherhood”, “Identifying and dealing with conflicts in collectives” and “Food: Nutrients”.

Anti-racism and Advocacy Workshop, The themes of “Anti-racist feminism”, “Political advocacy with a gender perspective”, “Political advocacy and social communication” and the discussion: Our struggles, anti-racist experiences for social transformation.

MigraRebel Network

The MigraRebeldía Network of some 80 migrant women's organisations in Spain. These organisations often do not have access to public funding with strict and bureaucratic requirements. Some of these groups are not even formally constituted.

The migrant women who make up these groups almost always do so as volunteers, without remuneration, dedicating their free time to it. They often have precarious jobs and care burdens for children, mothers and fathers, both here and in their countries of origin. In addition, they are “family” and take care of each other, as their blood families are far away.

In addition to this, they take time for activism, generating actions to defend their rights and to improve the lives of all people, both in the state and in their countries of origin and in the world in general. For example, they campaign against the Immigration Law or for the regularisation of people in an irregular administrative situation, Regularisation Now!.

They strengthen democratic narratives and confront discourses of hate and racism. They promote reflection on the capitalist, colonial, racist and patriarchal system in which we live and propose ways of living, organising and transforming in solidarity. Most of them are workers in the domestic and care sector, and their participation was key to achieving the signing of Convention 189, specific to the sector. They also work to strengthen their capacities for organisation, care and physical, community and digital security.

Migrant Justice

In 2012, Calala created the Migrant Justice Programme to support migrant activists and their collectives that make up the MigraRebeldía Network.

Through this programme, Calala provides these groups with access to economic resources, learning and exchange opportunities, and activist articulation to implement the initiatives they decide on.

In 2022, with the support of different organisations that finance this project, we have provided economic resources to the groups to develop their activism, but we have also worked to disseminate the genealogy of the movement of racialised migrant women in the state, as well as to strengthen capacities in the areas of leadership, resource management, self-care and collective care, anti-racism and advocacy. In addition, with the articulation of agendas and strategic organisation between different collectives in mind, the organisations held regional meetings in Andalusia, Catalonia, the Basque Country, Madrid and Valencia; and met for the first time in person at “Weaving Territories 2022, a meeting of migrant activists and women defenders for dignity here and there”.” , The event was led by Central American women migrant activists and human rights defenders who promote this movement locally and globally.

You can see the reports of the workshops held in 2021 and 2020, and we will soon share this year's workshops as well.

Economic management 2020 , Feminist Collective Leadership Guide 2020, Memoria Jornadas Autocuidado Cuidado Colectivo 2020, Leadership Report 2021 , Care Report 2021, Self-Management Report 2021