Because arriving takes courage – a film by DaMigra eV

On December 18, the international day of migrants, we are publishing “MUT 3.0 – Be courageous. Goes new ways" a documentary short film. He traces the arduous path and the arrival of three women in Germany to find a job and a place in a society that was new to them.

The documentary film will be on December 18.12.2022, 11 at 00:XNUMX a.m. on our website and our Youtube channel released. The film is preceded by a social media campaign. You can find teasers and other information material on our Instagram account @damigraev.

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"Arrival" describes the universal way for people with a history of migration to settle in Germany, to build a life and social environment and to find a job. The film sheds light on the political, professional and social participation that migrant women bring about, but also the conditions of the dominant society under which this can take place. The film's explicit focus is on the journey of three women into the world of work and training in Germany and their own perspective on it. Structural hurdles such as discrimination, unequal care work and institutional exclusions are addressed, but also the successes that women have achieved despite the barriers, as well as their personal convictions and moments of happiness. It is very important to the women themselves to empower women and to sensitize the dominant society to the realities of their lives. Hanan Alhasan is a lawyer, fled to Germany with her family before the war in Syria and is currently training to become an office manager. Nadia Miloudi came to Germany from Algeria on a doctoral scholarship and now works as a French and computer science teacher at a school in Munich. Fatima Aldibo's Syrian university degree was not recognized in Germany, which is why she trained as an educator in Germany. Today she works in a day-care center in Stralsund and studies vocational school education in Neubrandenburg in order to be able to return to her actual job as a teacher.

We at DaMigra eV demand with regard to the serious shortcomings in integrating refugee women into the labor market due to care work, lack of language skills and discrimination: an improved range of language courses as company training, the recognition and transferability of foreign professional and university degrees, suitable adaptation qualifications to German professional qualifications and the expansion of child care facilities. We also call on companies to make working conditions more humane and family-friendly. This includes flexible working hours, appropriate remuneration and, above all, treating employees with dignity.

Background information on the International Day of Migrants:

In December 2000, the United Nations federation proclaimed the first International Migrants Day to draw attention to the situation of migrants.[1] According to the BMZ, there are more than 281 million international Migrants who live or work in a country other than the one in which they were born. According to the United Nations, they make up 3,6 percent of the world population. The International Labor Organization notes that most of all international migrants (about two-thirds) leave their country to earn a living for themselves and their families by working elsewhere.[2] According to the United Nations Refugee Agency, the number of around 103 million people forcibly displaced worldwide. The number includes refugees, asylum seekers, internally displaced persons and other vulnerable people. Compared as of the end of 2021, this means an increase of 15 percent.[3][4] For DaMigra, every refugee is also a migrant, but not every migrant is a refugee.

DaMigra eV represents the interests of women migrant organizations and their concerns and advocates equal opportunities, equal participation and the equality of women with a history of migration and refugee experience in Germany. DaMigra follows the approach of anti-racist feminism.

[1] 10 years earlier, on December 18, 1990, the so-called International Convention for the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families adopted by the UN General Assembly. It is seen as the international standard against which governments should adapt their national legal protections for migrant women.

[2] https://www.bmz.de/de/themen/migration#lexicon=22064

[3]https://www.uno-fluechtlingshilfe.de/informieren/fluechtlingszahlen

[4]The United Nations Refugee Agency defines the difference between refugees and migrants in that refugees are forced to migrate and "cannot return to their homeland safely" - partly because their state can no longer or will not protect them - and migrants "without danger to could return body and life to their homeland”. https://www.uno-fluechtlingshilfe.de/informieren/fluechtlingszahlen