In support of Beirut's Migrant Community Center
Our Story
ARM works to achieve social, economic and gender justice for all migrant workers and racialized groups in Lebanon. We recognize the significance of self-organizing and actively support Migrant Domestic Worker (MDW) leadership in rights activism. A primary focus of ARM is women migrant domestic workers living and working under the oppressive Kafala System, which is used to recruit and hire foreign labor in Lebanon, Jordan and the Gulf states.
Our Migrant Community Center (MCC)
Across the last decade, our different MCCs have served as anti-racist, feminist, and alternative social and safe spaces, where migrant workers can build powerful networks, access information, resources, classes, training, direct assistance and long-term support. We work with migrant-led collectives to support their community organizing, collective action, self-advocacy and activism against systemic racism and injustice with a central focus on women as agents and leaders of change.
Our Values
We adopt a feminist ethics of care in our work, where we value attentiveness, responsibility, responsiveness, and compassion.
We also privilege the voices of migrant workers in every aspect of our work. We use a social justice framework as the basis for our approach, upholding fundamental human rights for everyone in our communities. We value the expression and practice of solidarity among all marginalized communities as a necessary alliance against oppressive and unjust systems. We view our everyday work as political and always seek to address the larger social, economic, cultural and policy structures that enable discrimination, abuse, and rights violations. We value the importance of building safe and strong communities that sustain the activism and offer supportive social networks for migrants and their allies.
The Anti-Racism Movement has created a home away from home for more than 800 MCC members and more than 26 nationalities. Our Migrant Community Centers offer free, welcoming, inclusive and safe spaces where migrant workers can gather freely, get acquainted with their rights, and develop tools to lead on their self-advocacy. Over the years, our centers have hosted celebrations, birthdays, farewells, reunions, vigils, weddings, potlucks, and other community events that bring friends together every day. The networks of support and strength they have created have expanded way beyond the doors of the MCCs.
We're counting on you! Your contributions are some of the most useful funding we receive. Considering that these donations can be used exactly as we want, it gives us the leniency to prioritize spendings based on the community’s needs. Considering that we are operating in a context of crisis, this margin of freedom is vital for the well being of our work and the communities that we support.
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