Care Crisis: Racialised Women at the Crossroads of Migration, Labour Market and Family Policies E-Paper Besides job creations and responding to care needs, a central argument justifying the development of in-home care has been that of gender equality. In her paper, Emilia Roig argues that the stated policy objective of “freeing” the productive potential of the more highly-skilled women - as announced by the European Commission – widens the gender pay gap, instead of fostering gender equality in the workplace. Von Emilia Roig
‘Don’t be evil.’ Model minorities in colourblind ‘Schland* Smaran Dayal asks: What does it mean to be spoken of as a model minority? What effect does accepting such a role have on other minoritised communities in this country, and what are its unarticulated implications? These questions aren’t easily answered, but anyone involved in social justice and the idea of an inclusive, non-hierarchical society should have them in mind. Von Smaran Dayal
Racism and discrimination at work: a challenge for European trade unions Nouria Ouali zeigt, dass Rassismus und Diskriminierung am Arbeitsplatz in Europa mit der Wirtschaftskrise zugenommen haben und wie Gewerkschaften dagegen vorgehen (sollten), auch innerhalb ihrer eigenen Organisationen.
About the Dossier Empowerment This collection of essays, interviews and film addresses the empowerment of people marginalised by racist dominant structures - People of Color, Black persons, non-White migrants and ethnic minorities. By focussing on empowerment these pages demonstrate an important part of empowerment processes themselves - the stepping beyond a complete occupation with the problem of disempowerment and discrimination. This dossier thereby extends the canon of writing that documents empowerment in practice, explores what it means, and explains how it works. Von Julia Brilling
»A (virtual) network of friends that I haven't met yet« Move on up! – (Not) just an ordinary mailing list Jihan Jasmin S. Dean and Hanna Hoa Anh Mai administrate the »Move On Up«-email-list, a PoC-Empowerment mailing list. They write about the list’s background, share voices from the list with thoughts on the »Move On Up«-idea and describe some of the challenges a virtual community of color faces.
Empowering, Inspiring – Deaf without limits Sabina Iqbal shares in her contribution her experiences as a Deaf Asian Muslima in the UK. With a perspective on the intersection of gender, »Race«, religion and ability based discrimination she describes her life’s path, those individuals and institutions that supported her in achieving her goals, and touches upon the strategies necessary for the empowerment of Disabled People of Color.
time travelling brown bears: intergenerational interviews with two transmasculine femmes of color on healing justice Miran N. und Raju Rage dokumentieren einen Prozess des Empowerments, namentlich ein Gespräch über Selbstbestimmung zwischen zwei Trans-Maskulin Femmes of Color, die sich auch mit ihrem jüngeren Selbst unterhalten. Dabei wird Empowerment als eine Form der Healing Justice [Heilenden Gerechtigkeit] verstanden.
