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Migrant women between concernment, participation and self-determination

22 September 2011, 8pm - 10pm
University of Basel (assembly hall)
Public evening event on occasion of the FemCities Conference

The public often perceives migrant women as oppressed victims. At the same time they have to achieve more than women without a migration background to get acknowledgment and promotion. This deficit-oriented approach sometimes also forms part of equality policies and integration programmes. Valuable potential is not unlocked but lost.

Experts from science, administration, politics and the civil society discuss what a resource-oriented approach to equality should look like to really provide migrant women with equal opportunities and involving them into the process and let them speak out for themselves instead of telling them what to do and ignoring their needs.

Keynote address:
Gabriele Dietze, Humboldt University of Berlin

Panel discussion:
Ylfete Fanaj, Secondas Plus CH
Luzenir Caixeta, MAIZ autonomous centre by and for migrants, Linz, Austria
Delia Krieg-Trujillo, Nosotras, Basel
Ursula Matschke, Department for Equal Opportunities for Women and Men, City of Stuttgart
Barbara Szerb-Mantl, Municipal Department 17 – Integration and Diversity, City of Vienna
Empty chair: Please take a seat and join the discussion!

Facilitator: Inés Mateos, Office for Gender Equality, Department of Presidential Affairs, Canton of Basel City

Simultaneous interpretation in English

Free admission

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Programm der Abendveranstaltung (in German)

EVENTS

Migrant women between concernment, participation and self-determination

Public evening event on occasion of the FemCities Conference 2011

22 September 2011
8pm – 10pm
University of Basel, assembly hall
Petersplatz 1, Basel /Switzerland

Simultaneous interpretation in English

Free admission