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  • Reflective Tool for Intersectional Practice focused on Poor Migrant Women Workers in India

  • Intersectionality is a robust framework for examining power relations, discrimination, privilege, and other root causes of inequality. It emphasizes the layered impacts of historical, material, and social locations, such as gender, class, race, caste, ethnicity, sexuality, disability, migration status and geography, and allows us to focus on the subjective lived experiences of poor migrant women workers.

    Below is a reflective tool for stakeholders working with migrant women workers, to self-assess and examine their focus on gender equity and intersectionality, in programs and interventions deployed on ground.

    Please note that the points listed below have been co-created during our conversation with on-ground practitioners. This list is indicative, and not exhaustive. Intersectionality is continuously evolving and plays out differently across contexts.

    Your responses will be kept confidential and aggregated data may be used for research purposes.

  • Below is a list of intervention areas for poor migrant women workers, each accompanied by a checklist for gender equiable and intersectional practice. Please select the practices prelevant in you organization. In the context of intersectionality, are they 'neutral', 'emerging', or 'developed'? Please feel free to elaborate or rationalise in the comment box.
    This exercise can be useful in understanding what all is covered and what more can be done.

    • 1. Building evidence and visibilizing poor migrant women workers through advocacy 
    • 2. Formalizing and legitimizing poor migrant women workers' identities 
    • 3. Preventing and attending to gender-based violence 
    • 4. Diversifying livelihood opportunities available to migrant women 
    • 5. Developing leadership and agency in poor migrant women workers 
    • 6. Integrating gender equality, diversity, and inclusion at the workplace, without backlash 
    • 7. Focusing on the mental health of migrant women workers, considering their intersectional identities  
    • 8. Addressing migrant women's practical needs at the workplace 
    • 9. Building awareness of and providing linkages to institutional provisions 
    • 10. Strengthening women's individual positions within the workplace 
    • 11. Supporting migrant women in their childcare responsibilities  

  • Thank you for taking the time out to introspect and reflect on your efforts. 
    We hope you found this exercise useful and welcome your inputs on the same.

    Once you click on submit, you will receive your form responses on mail.

    Please download the PDF of your responses to keep as ready reference. Further, we are sharing this checklist of intersectional practices in the context of poor migrant women workers on mail. 
    Let us continue to visibilize and amplify their work and identities.

  • Do you know of more interventions or examples of intersectional practice?
    We would to hear from you. We welcome you to contribute by dropping us an email on workersinvisibility@dasra.org.

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