Migrant women face challenges and barriers as both migrants and women, namely, a double disadvantage that is also confirmed by research. Despite having tertiary education similar to that of native-born women and migrant men, migrant women face additional obstacles in labour integration process, such as discrimination, lack of networking, mismatching job needs and qualifications, family-related commitments. In order to improve their labour market integration, migrant women need support and guidance through their integration process, they must be informed on their rights and obligations in the host society, they must be empowered, they must have access to trainings and be able to take full advantage of their skills. In this context the current project aims to apply a comprehensive approach providing networking opportunities, practical and transversal skills, assisting and facilitating the migrant women integration path into the EU societies through civics, art and sport coaching schemes, that could be an answer to the challenges they encounter. The 4women project will be based on the partners' practices that using the civics, art and sport, and especially the benefits of self-defence trainings and group coaching, could help to bring people from various cultural and ethnic backgrounds together and can contribute to the integration and inclusion of women with migrant backgrounds and therefore to the community cohesion.
The project aims to:
Learning by doing.