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USA - STATE OF MINNESOTA - REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT WOMEN FOR CHANGE - GENDER DEMOCRACY TOOLKIT

 

Direct Link to Full 66-Page Toolkit:

http://www.wunrn.com/pdf/riwc.pdf

 

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.