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AkiDwA, the African and Migrant Women’s Network, in association with ISU for New Communities Invites you to a seminar onRecession and Employment

Date:              20 September 2011 Time:             9.30am - 2pm Venue:           Edmund Rice International Heritage Centre, Mount Sion, Barrack Street, Waterford While integration is always a challenge for ethnic minorities, the current economic climate has increased migrants’ feelings of marginalisation and ‘racialisation’. This is especially the case for asylum seekers in Ireland, who are segregated and not allowed to work or take up third level education, which often results in a sense of isolation.Women migrants, regardless of their immigration status, face additional, gender-based obstacles to integration and equality. The obstacles can include: their migration status, their roles as mothers, gender-based violence, female genital mutilation (FGM), reproductive health issues and also their often overlooked marginalisation within migrant communities. However, despite the difficulties they face, migrant women in Ireland have shaped and continue to enrich Irish society. This workshop, hosted collaboratively by AkiDwA and ISU for New Communities, forms a part of AkiDwA’s 10th anniversary celebrations. Seeking work is never an easy endeavour, especially in current economic climate; however it can be more difficult for some communities than other. Migrant women tend to experience unique combination of barriers when trying to access the labour market in Ireland. The seminar intends to bring together migrant women in Waterford area, employers, state agencies and NGOs who deal with migrant women for the purpose of exchanging experience and learning. Admission is free but booking is essential as places are limited. Please contact Zuzana Pavlikova at zuzana@akidwa.ie / 01 834 9851 or Beverly Elechukwu at isuoffice@gmail.com / 051 852564 .

For full list of AkiDwA’s 10th anniversary events, please visit www.akidwa.ie