OWN on the occasion of the International Day against Violence against Women (November 25)Our association notes the invisibility of violence experienced by women in exile. However, they experienced a particular range of gender violence throughout their migration journey and since their arrival in France.
This continuity highlights that this violence does not stop at the border, but continues and worsens, impacting the physical, mental, sexual and reproductive health of women in exile. This violence remains invisible to so-called “pro-gender equality” policies, which often ignore the specific realities of violence experienced by women in exile.
More than 90% of women crossing the Mediterranean have been victims of rape, and half of the bodies found are female. Women in exile experience gender-based and sexual violence that marks their migration journey.
Streets destroy, injure and kill
This violence drives them to emigrate: domestic violence, within the family, political violence, forced marriage, female genital mutilation, gender apartheid, gender discrimination. This violence continues when they cross borders, in camps on European borders and in transit countries. As migration policies tighten, the roads become increasingly dangerous.
Once they arrive in France, France’s non-acceptance migration policy locks women in vulnerable economic and social conditions conducive to sexual violence. After one year, 100% of homeless women were victims of rape – resulting in destruction, injury and murder on the streets. When they are not on the street, they risk sexual violence in order to obtain accommodation. They experience the most severe administrative and institutional violence: racism, story disqualification, social and linguistic isolation…
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