In the current global economic and political crisis, migration continues to be a survival strategy for people and poor families from the Global South. Growing numbers of women move within countries and across borders to seek for employment opportunities, or/and escape from violence, discrimination, climate crisis, conflict and poverty. Increased feminisation of migration has become an overt trend in the globalised world – around half of an estimated 272 million migrants who live and work outside their countries of origin are women, and approximately 66.6 million of them are migrant workers. Despite the trend of increased migration, migrant women face unprecedented challenges with the deregulation of labour policies and gender-specific restrictions in migration policies. To fully extract profits from migrant women, governments, recruitment agencies and other corporations depend on a flexible, mobile and cheap labour force to meet the labour demands with weak protections and a high level of precarity, while migration policies increasingly pose barriers to mobility that criminalise migrants. With these circumstances, migrant women struggle with multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination and inequalities, restrictions in movement, labour rights violations, sexual and gender-based violence, racism and xenophobia. In the face of different forms of human rights violations, APWLD and migrant groups in the region are building and strengthening the movement of women migrants who are able to claim their rights to decent work, living wage, freedom of movement and right to organise. To end the marginalisation and exploitation, migrant women and the grassroot communities must be central to efforts, and their stories and lived experiences must be heard and learned. With this media fellowship, we aim to build progressive narrative to challenge the market driven migration model by sharing migrants' realities and their demands to wider communities in order to respond to the current crisis and rebuild a just and rights-based migration agenda. *we may include a gallery of the media training and reflection meeting
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