Gathered under\nthe same paths, we are living among obstacles and in a constant search for\nsolutions, a struggle becomes many and they have united us to build a future,\nnot to be lost, for which we want and for a dignified daily life. Conscience\nand questioning have united us in sharing and preserving our free lives,\nsafeguarding healthy relationships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We have sat down\nto dialogue to find answers, find and think alternatives, build sorority and\nexchange ideas, plans, strategies. All these motivations coincide not only in\none place: they expose us to similar problems on other continents: in equal\nrisk, inequity and lack of justice, all these expressions of violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In action from\nthe Femmes Survivantes\nCollective,founded by Latin American women and made up of migrant women from\nvarious backgrounds that has the participation of women who find themselvesin a\nhostile reality which does not sum them, but excludes them from the criterion\nof generating social and human capital. These people are left adrift, within a\nlandscape where isolation is what is considered ‘normal’ and which ignores\ntheir collective unconscious but is inevitably affected by it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Does anyone look\nat this reality, study it and understand how to improve it? Does anyone visit\nthe shelters with women and children? Those women living without the\npossibility of participation, kept to ‘protect them from domestic violence’, of\nmen exercising violence outside the very system that allows them to visit them\nand take away children, whom they also mistreat, to foster ‘the bond’. At the\nsame time, rights to ties to maternal grandparents and cultures of origin are\nignored because they are far away and afraid that they will not return.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There’s a denial!\nDenial to look, for knowing, for listening and for pointing out and accounting\nfor all the repetitive obstacles faced by women, migrant women and women with\nchildren of migrant origin who live and must follow the path of exclusionary\nmigration for at least three generations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2017 and 2018\ntogether with the organization Siempre, also founded by Latin American women,\nwe have found absence of coalition, data, serious studies, and reports that\nfollow up. We have met with local organizations looking the other way and\nreviewing each other’s problems since the absence of feeling and reviewing\nproblems inside, as if the problems belonged only to others and not to those\nliving in the same zip codes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Truths are\nuncomfortable, but they are still true. The diagnosis that for three years has\nformed a job in conjunction with women victims of family violence,\ninstitutional violence, discrimination, without real job opportunities, without\nguarantee for the custody of their own children, trapped in a system that not\nonly excludes them, but in turn victimizes, accuses and rejects them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During this time\nof analysis, accompaniment, study and networking, we have been conducting\ndebates, formal dialogues from which we point out irregularities and lack of\nattention to solutions that deal with the reality of migrant women and children\nin Latin America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2016, in\nall this invisibilization, the\nCollectif Femmes Survivantes \nfolds to the real, independent and international actions and activism of\nNi Una Menos Argentina, in a self-managed way and adhering to calls for women’s\nstrikes. Facing a local juncture of cultural appropriation, a local society\nthat marches at its discretion in the face of problems that no one names in its\nstruggles, and without data because they are hidden, without public statistics\nor monitoring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Contradictions\nare part of a typically feudal structure dependent on opportunities and still\nsaturated with materialistic and competitive demands, crushing of any\nsolidarity initiative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our positioning\nis to extend our networks and recognize the authenticity of more and more\nconscious women who understand and are uniting because they want to live and\nhave healthy relationships, freely, in peace, and understand that it is\nsomething that is only achieved in a community, self-suggestive and autonomous way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We note the\nrejections of inequality for migrants from non-European countries, rights\naligned in territorial justice and in extraterritorial cases such as child\ncustody, immersed in costly international mazes and forced reunification. We\nagree, together with other communities, such as magrebine and African communities, that we must cross\nbarriers, roofs, without floors, with no chance of progress, with justice\nconditional on selective migration and a threatening and silenced reality.\nFaced with the constant crossroads of having to choose between the least bad of\nwhat is proposed and without being able to understand what the next step is,\nwhat are the stages of these disjointed processes, obscure, those that cause\nthe greatest problems rather than solve them, procedures to which it is\nadvisable to accompany themselves as witnesses to prevent or be less alone in\nthe face of discrimination and with possible retaliation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Extending the\nlandscape of voiceless victims and survivors with silenced representation, and\nlimited to jobs that no one wants to do, which they do not question and\nsubmissively accept. We have reviewed studies, analyses of Latin and European\nscientists who have examined the causes of migration, how the mechanism is\ndeveloped that will not allow developments, that suppresses initiatives and\nkeeps victims and women circulating in the midst of legal procedures without\nregulations, insufficient schedules, against staff without skills or trainings\nwithout even adequately addressing the problems of Migrant Women; articulated\nnetworked organizations to silence and not make real and everyday difficulties\nvisible. At all levels far from reality and with public money are filled with\nempty reports of social awareness, demands that seem to come out of pamphlets because\nthey do not take into account the questions and proposals of those who need and\nrequire the precise help. There are forced agreements between lawyers, experts\nwith outdated mindsets, based on these reports and who bypass international\ntreaties (such as the Declaration of Universal Rights, Cedauw,Istanbul\nConvention). Young people are held accountable and criminalized without\nproposing alternative models of employment, education and emphasize attack and\nself-defense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We identify the\ncauses, what are the needs and how the organizations involved: in migration,\nsocial services, psychological support services, services that address family\nviolence, administrative violence, institutional violence, human resources\nwithin, how they integrate gender reports, unemployment, legal service with\nresolutions facing common problems such as: Divorce, Custody of Infants,\nfemicide, do not monitor, do not accept questions and lack transparency and\ncodes of deontologics..<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The exploitation\nof misery is common currency, as well as the abandonment of people in danger\nand the press a reflection of impunity and tricky language to divert the\nspotlights towards distraction and entertainment. As in every area, beyond some\ngoodwill, we are faced with care and superficial immediacy. Committed and\ncourageous professionals are ignored, fired, marginalized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We conclude,\nafter the institutional mapping and phenomenon of Latin migration whether\nqualified, family aggregation, political and economic exile, Latin\ntransmigration within Europe or social relationship that comes to live in\nBelgium will hardly access economic resources generated from job opportunities\naccording to their vocational training, face discrimination of ethnic, racial\norigin in the first and second generation and will be without validation of\nprofessional competences , will suffer at least once family and gender-based\nviolence during one of the periods of integration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reconciling and\njustifying the absence of feedback-free dialogue is a constant imposition, use\nand abuse. We start and follow from each of our fields and our expressions\n(artistic, cultural, communicative, researchers, scientific, educational),\nproposals and the importance of creating conscious healing spaces, developing our\nown tools, working groups, meetings to circulate dialogue and point out precise\nproblems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We invite you to\nrecognize and advance in a consciousness, to see together from a network\nautonomy and thus position ourselves in a knowledge of collectivity that inspires\nto activate and promote projects in the receiving society. The communiqu\u00e9 is\nuncomfortable but accurate and in turn points to optimism since alternatives\ncan be built from objectivity. We are part of these groups pushed into\nsubordination, with strategies planned by those who want to maintain their\nprivileges. Cultural appropriations that saturate and seek to nullify our\nidentities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We each follow,\none from our fields and with our artistic, educational, cultural, communicative\nexpressions, as researchers, as scientists and environmentalists to know our\nproposals based on ancient knowledge. We give importance in creating healing\nspaces, conscious, using our own tools, we call for integrating working groups,\nto collaborate and circulate dialogue and point out precise problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We invite you to\nparticipate and become aware, from the autonomy to join in a network and thus\nposition ourselves with our knowledge of collectivity that inspires to activate\nprojects in the receiving society. The communiqu\u00e9 will be uncomfortable for\nthose who are not prepared and for those who want to maintain their\nprivileges. We are part of the network\nthat moves with reality and in planned, accurate and optimistic strategies that\nappeal to the objectivity of building alternatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We must continue\nto build our ways with pride. Transforming concerns and pain into vindications\nand alternatives, which become among those who dream, project and carry them\nout. The movement is alive, it extends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You will find and\nconsolidate sorority if consciousness is awake. Wake up!<\/p>\n\n\n\n