Approximately 1.4 million migrants in the UK have no access to state funds – including hundreds of thousands of key workers in the healthcare and hospitality sectors.
Safety4Sisters North West is a small frontline feminist Black and minority ethnic led women’s charity working with vulnerable migrant women who have experienced gender-based violence and who are subject to immigration control. Through advocacy and group work, Safety4Sisters supports and promotes the human rights of migrant women with no recourse to public funds (NRPF) that have experienced domestic abuse and gender-based violence.
The Locked Out of Abuse, Locked Out of Safety report shares their organisation's experiences and the experiences of the women that they support, through the unprecedented period of covid-19. The report highlights how the service has responded to a sharp increase in demand, in relation to the local and national responses whilst place in the foreground the voices of the women that Safety4Sisters support.
It is a document of the struggles of migrant women who are marginalised by the state and who are surviving under the pressing weight of gender-based violence, destitution, homelessness – and now, a global pandemic.
You can read the report and it's recommendations here.
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