Feminist Migration Policy

As Heinrich Böll Foundation we are committed to gender democracy. Within our regional programme on migration we seek to enhance capacities and resilience to growing pressure and criminalisation of refugees, migrants and host communities as well as civil society throughout the region. As a feminist political foundation, we acknowledge the fact that gender matters and while people on the move face discrimination in Europe structurally, women and LGBTIQ+ in addition are confronted with discrimination based on gender and/or sexuality. Feminism aims at dismantling oppressive and discriminatory power structures, which currently are very much defining EU migration policies. While Feminist Foreign Policy is already somewhat established as a concept with a number of EU Member States having commited to putting human security at the core of their foreign policy, feminist migration policy is not yet much on the radar. In light of the lack of a functioning EU migration policy respecting human rights and valuing the experiences and needs of people on the move, especially of the most vulnerable and marginalised among them, the intersection of feminism and migration seems to be more relevant than ever. This dossier collects various forms of contributions at this specific intersection and thereby aims to present alternatives to current policies and discourses.