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Yasmine Flitti, Director of Finance and
Administration with Comede (Committee for
the Health of Exiles), speaks to the
challenges of migration in the
Mediterranean region from a feminist
perspective. In the past two years there
has been a steep increase in the number of
recorded missing or murdered migrants in
the Mediterranean, accounting for over 75%
of the total number of missing or dead
migrants worldwide in 2013.
Flitti blames European policies that
impede population flows and the political
unrest on the southern shores of the
Mediterranean, particularly in Libya. She
goes on to discuss the dire circumstances
faced by migrant women who do survive, and
the work feminist and migrant solidarity
associations are doing to alleviate the
"triple oppression against migrant women
based on gender, race and migrant status"
with the objective of legitimizing migrant
women's status in society.