24/01/2020
Between mid-2018 and mid-2019, the Anti-Racism Movement (ARM) carried out a feminist participatory action research project that examines “safe and fair migration” from a feminist perspective, in collaboration with Mesewat and the Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women (GAATW). In a context where minimal serious efforts to establish safe and fair migration systems that prioritize workers’ rights have been made by the Lebanese state, it is essential that we recognize and examine how many migrant workers have taken this task upon themselves in order to learn from past experiences and explore ways of organizing differently in response to the current challenges we face. Through building community groups, many migrant domestic workers care for each other and try to ensure their own safety through mutual financial, medical, emotional, and social support. They also make political demands for protection and justice from the state and other institutions and social actors around them. In 2014, several ethiopian migrant domestic workers in Lebanon came together and formed Mesewat, a grassroots community-building group that assists migrant domestic workers in emergency situations in Lebanon.
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This project was part of a wider initiative on reclaiming migrant women’s narratives where 11 different organizations conducted feminist participatory action research projects from 2018 to 2019. You can find more information about the different projects here.
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The Anti-Racism Movement (ARM) was launched in 2010 as a grassroots collective by young Lebanese feminist activists in collaboration with migrant workers and migrant domestic workers.
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