WUNRN
USA - STATE OF MINNESOTA - REFUGEE
& IMMIGRANT WOMEN FOR CHANGE - GENDER DEMOCRACY TOOLKIT
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The
US State of Minnesota's immigrant and refugee communities are incredibly
rich and diverse. Close to half of our immigrant population are refugees (more
than any other state the country), and many (regardless of refugee status) have
made traumatic journeys to reach our borders. On these journeys, gender
combines with culture, race and ethnicity, religion and other elements of
identity to create unique human beings.
The tools included in the Kit help us to explore and
better understand how our refugee and immigrant organizations do and do not
function internally and externally to ensure that all of these unique human
beings have an equal chance to thrive. This requires us to be consistently and
systematically reflective about when it is appropriate to treat men and women
the same and when it is more effective to recognize and act on difference. This
requires us to be open to and respectful of multiple and culturally rooted
models for what it means to be a man and what it means to be a woman and how
these definitions are deeply interdependent; how these gender identities may be
performed differently in different contexts and environments; and how they may
change and evolve over time.