The realities of migrants' lives in Germany are marked by policies that transcend the national level and are framed by global movements such as the change in production cycles, the intensification of extractive exploitation, the persistence of crises in global care chains, the application of neoliberal policies and the acceleration of the climate crisis.
Despite institutional rhetoric and speeches about a supposed culture of welcome, European policies are aimed at shielding EU borders, keeping the non-European population that manages to enter this space in a legal limbo, exposing migrants permanently to the bureaucratic machinery of foreigners and its sanctioning regimes.
In Germany, work is subject to continuous segmentation and precariousness. The migrant population is denied basic guarantees that apply to the rest of the citizenry simply because they do not speak the language, do not have German nationality, do not have a residence permit or do not have a German qualification.
Against this backdrop, we see the need to build common strategies and explore spaces of migrant autonomy. We are convinced that these are the spaces that have the most potential, the ones that will serve us the most as a school of activism and spaces for collective creation.
In this first event organized on 08/09/2022 with Bloque Latinoamericano we learned about the experience of the Grupo de Acción Sindical (GAS), an immigrant organization based in Berlin, deeply rooted in its community, with an activist vocation and served to visualize supposedly invisible realities.