Launch of Photo Exhibition MIGRANT WOMEN TRANSFORMING IRELAND
Published: Thursday, August 25, 2011
AkiDwA, the African and Migrant Women's Network, in association with Dublin City Council Invites you to the launch of photo exhibition MIGRANT WOMEN TRANSFORMING IRELAND
Date: 12 September 2011
Time: 11 am-1pm
Venue: Exchange Dublin, Exchange Street Upper, Temple Bar, Dublin 2
While integration is always a challenge for ethnic minorities, the current economic climate has increased migrants' feelings of marginalisation and 'racialisation'. This is especially the case for asylum seekers in Ireland, who are segregated and not allowed to work or take up third level education, which often results in a sense of isolation.
Women migrants, regardless of their immigration status, face additional, gender-based obstacles to integration and equality. The obstacles can include: their migration status, their roles as mothers, gender-based violence, female genital mutilation (FGM), reproductive health issues and also their often overlooked marginalisation within migrant communities. However, despite the difficulties they face, migrant women in Ireland have shaped and continue to enrich Irish society.