Remaking Citizenship from the Margins: Migrant and Minoritized Women’s Organizations in Europe

Abstract

This chapter starts from the premise that an exploration of the contribution of migrant and minoritized women’s organizations¹ is vital to any understanding of the processes of ‘remaking citizenship’ in contemporary Europe. It seeks to assess the role played by migrant and minoritized women’s organizations by addressing three issues: firstly, the extent to which migrant and minoritized women’s organizations in different national contexts use citizenship as a framework for their work; secondly, the organizations’ perceptions of their relationship to wider women’s and feminist movements; and thirdly, the particularities of migrant and minoritized women’s efforts to mobilize on a platform of common needs, identities and interests, as distinct from those of majority women in European contexts.