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Empowering Transnational Citizenship: Strategies for Global Social Rights

This roadmap explores deconstructing citizenship and power relations, advocating for global social rights and transnational citizenship. It emphasizes inclusive strategies, participation, and solidarity to counter exclusion and stereotypes, with a focus on gender, labor, and migration intersectionality. The document addresses the need for intersectional approaches, policy changes, and grassroots movements to reform migration regimes and reshape public discourse. Key goals include promoting economic equality, challenging exploitative practices, and fostering solidarity among diverse social groups.

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Empowering Transnational Citizenship: Strategies for Global Social Rights

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  1. A Roadmap from Practical Needs To Strategic Interests To Envisioning Alternatives Exposing, Resisting,Developing Alternatives

  2. Vision of transnational/global/cosmopolitan Citizenship • Deconstruct citizenship & entitlements which are linked to localities, nationality, race, ethnicity, class, caste, gender • Deconstruct power relations & mechanisms of exclusion & segregation • Rights & entitlement travel with the migrant • Global social rights... harmonisation of rights at local, national & international level • Need of international regulation & legislation to ensure universal rights & transnational citizenship

  3. Another world is possible • Peace • There is enough for everybody: sustainable livelihood, living with dignity & „buen vivir“ for all & everywhere... no forced migration, no brain & care drain • Freedom to stay or to migrate • Transnational citizenship & global social rights

  4. Multi-dimensional Strategies • Dual strategy: frontline service & policy intervention/reframing of policies • Triangle of solidarity actions: Prevention – protection – sustainable policy solutions • Support individual claims for rights & struggle for structural transformation • Inside (lobby/policy intervention) – outside (radical) – strategy • Dual perspective: rights & livelihood in the country of destination & in the country of origin • Short term, medium & long term strategies & perspective

  5. Integration....Participation...Representation • Overcome exclusion & segregation • Integration not assimilation • Participation instead of integration • Speak for themselves, right to organise & leadership • Political participation: right to municipal elections after staying 5 years • Participation of migrant women in EU policy making & the EU project of gender equality

  6. Reconstruct Public Images & Discourses -Change the Mindset • Counter stereotypes of unskilled, service providing, desperate migrant women - Shift concept to skilled, empowered, decision making actor in the market and in the community • Counter victimisation, empower survivors & agents • Contest discourses which reduce migrants to commodities, economic factors & remittances • Expose & resist categorisation & hierarchisation of migrants

  7. Intersection of gender, labour & migration • Acknowledge the contribution of migrant labour to the economy & social reproduction in the country of destination & origin • Recognise care/domestic/sex work as work • Recognise diplomas from country of origin • Regulate care/domestic/sex work (e.g.minimum wage), enforce labour rights & entitlements to social security • Right to organise & form own union for collective bargaining... • ....but no solution to gender division of labour & crisis of care & social reproduction

  8. Intersection of neoliberal policies, market economy & migration • Scandalise power relations, inequalities & rights violation • Politicise intersection of class, racism, sexism & migration regimes • Expose neocolonial exploitative policies & practices, e.g. name & shame TNCs, trafficking agencies & role of governments • Resist national & international policies which subordinate human rights, global social rights & gender equality to the trade & investment regime, the neoliberal economy & the respective migration regimes

  9. Change of EU-Policies • Bottomline: Decriminalisation of migration, right to stay, legalising undocumented workers, recognise domestic workers as workers • Expose the neoliberal trade & investment regime & exploitation of resources in the South & East as root causes for forced migration/trafficking • Expose the intersection of racism, sexism & human rights violation in migration policies • Lobby EU-governments to ratify UN-convention on migrants & enforce other international conventions, human rights & gender equality commitments

  10. Reconfiguration of Nation State & Migration Regimes • Resist neoliberal policies which destroy people's livelihoods & prolonge poverty • Exert pressure on state to protect citizens from trafficking, slavery & gender related violence • Demand policies which eliminate poverty, redistribute resources & promote economy of solidarity • Design non-racist, non-sexist, non-exploitative migration regimes informed by human rights, equality & dignity • Reconfigure citizenship

  11. Solidarity - Networking – Movement Building • Need of transnational civil society alliances • Identify communalities, build common agenda & joint campaigns • Build bridges between migrants & local people, between feminists & other social organisations & trade unions, link different struggles • Deconstruct classes, racism & competition among migrants • Create space for migrants' voices & organisations • Break South – East – North divide

  12. Yes, we can! Together! • Let's create our own agenda for change !

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