Equinox Initiative for Racial Justice, Greek Forum of Migrants and International Women* Space are building a Migrant Justice Community of Practice: a coalition of migrant-led organisations working to shift European migration approaches away from punishment, violence and control toward community, care and social provision.
Equinox Initiative for Racial Justice, Greek Forum of Migrants and International Women* Space are building a Migrant Justice Community of Practice: a coalition of migrant-led organisations working to shift European migration approaches away from punishment, violence and control toward community, care and social provision.
In a climate of growing far-right, anti-migrant political power across Europe, migrant and racialised communities are increasingly vilified, criminalised and scapegoated for a range of social problems.
We are seeing the hardening of punitive, criminalising and discriminatory migration laws and policies, as well as an increase in legislation, resources and infrastructure that militarises borders and European migration policy.
We want to see resources, legislation and policy used to protect people’s lives rather than support systems of punishment, containment and control. We need an alternative force that centres the needs, goals and approaches of grassroots migrant activism.
We are building a translocal coalition of grassroots groups working collectively to shift power in European migration approaches. The coalition seeks to bring together organisations working to redistribute resources and power away from punitive institutions and toward social provision and community care. We focus on building power amongst migrant and racialised-led justice organisations who are commonly under-funded and excluded from decision-making processes.
The coalition includes: