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The Art of Moving Forward: Migrant Empowerment - Creative Tools for Community Building and Advocating Labour Rights

2023-1-ES01-KA210-ADU-0001660192023Small-scale partnerships in adult educationfinalized
Countries: ES|EL|PL · Grant: €60,000
Democracy and inclusive democratic participationReception and integration of refugees and migrantsEqual access and transition to labour market

Objectives

The project sought to empower structurally marginalised migrant women to gain knowledge, confidence, and collective voice in defending their rights. Our objectives were: To create inclusive, creative educational methodologies enabling participation regardless of literacy, language, or legal status. To generate transnational solidarity through exchange of experiences between women in Spain, Poland, and Greece, linking local struggles to European contexts. To co-develop tools and resources (digital platform, blogs, films, manifestos) that ensure sustainability and wider transferability. To influence policy and raise awareness by amplifying migrant women’s voices in public and institutional arenas. To strengthen partner organisations with new skills, practices, and networks, ensuring long-term impact.

Background

We applied for this project to address urgent needs faced by migrant women across Europe, particularly those in precarious labour sectors such as agriculture, care, and domestic work. Many experience structural discrimination, exploitation, and invisibility in both policy and public narratives. Partners identified common challenges: limited access to rights information, lack of safe spaces for participation, and the absence of collective platforms where migrant women could articulate demands and build solidarity across borders. The project responded to these gaps by combining adult education, arts-based methods, and advocacy, ensuring that learning was experiential, empowering, and linked directly to real-life struggles. By doing so, it aimed to strengthen the capacity of migrant women to act as agents of change, while equipping grassroots organisations, unions, and NGOs with innovative tools for inclusion, community-building, and labour rights defence.

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