Women in Exile was founded in 2002 as a political group of refugee and migrant women in Brandenburg, Germany, to make visible the intertwining of racism and sexism in the struggle for rights and discrimination of refugees and migrants – both in terms of experiences and realities in camps, on the run, in efforts to obtain residency status, in the context of medical care, etc., and in organizing resistance against racist exclusion of refugees and migrants. Women in Exile sees itself “as a feminist organization and are one of the few interfaces between the women’s movement and the refugee movement.” Since 2011, the group has been working as Women in Exile & Friends: women with and without experience of flight and migration organize themselves together here.
They are active in Berlin and Brandenburg in particular but not exclusively. About her work includes, among other things. visiting “‘communal shelters’ in Brandenburg to offer proactive support to refugee women from the point of view of those affected, to share information about what is going on, and to get information about the needs of women living in the ‘shelters’.” they “participate in various networking meetings to plan actions together with other anti-racist and feminist groups”; and they “organize seminars and workshops for refugee women to help them develop perspectives to improve their difficult living situation, fight for their rights in the asylum process, and defend themselves against sexualized violence, discrimination, and exclusion.”