Alma Sarabia Aquino

Alma Sarabia is a Mexican migrant with ten years of experience in the field of home and health care. Are home care workers only domestic workers or are they care professionals? Do irregular migrants have labour, legal and social rights? As a result of these concerns, a group of migrants started a “collective loom” from […]

Paola Larco

Paola Larco Muñoz is an economist born in Quito, Ecuador, living in València for the last 3 years. She has a Master’s Degree in Gender and Equality Policies by the University of València and she is currently working on her PhD in this same area. Her lines of research are gender, feminist, social and solidarity […]

Aminata Soucko

Aminata Soucko is a community-based health agent specialised in female genital mutilation. She will talk about her innovative work in Valencia as a cultural connecting link. She facilitates the collaboration of the whole community to raise awareness and to inform women and their families about the health consequences of the female genital mutilation. She also […]

María del Rosario Polito

María Rosario is an activist, teacher and intercultural mediator. Since she arrived in València 17 years ago, she has been involved in social movements related to migrations. She has actively participated in the campaign to close down detention centres in Spain since it started: she will tell us about that 10-year old initiative. Rosario is […]

Safia Elaaddam

Safia Elaaddam is a young social educator and the promoter of the “Voting is a right” initiative. This campaign was born out of frustration and injustice. People born in Spain and the children of immigrants put the focus on the institutional racism that they suffer. “In a democratic society, the right to vote is an […]