Storytelling: Oana Maroti
Illustration: Daniela Cristina Gagiu
Azi chelnerita, maine cine stie.
Today a waitress, yesterday a chemist, tomorrow who knows.
Muddling along, this is our existence.
We´ve been preparing to not know what tomorrow brings.
This is a beautiful illustration made by Daniela Cristina Gagiu when we started the immigration storytelling. The character you see, the woman with a bird tattoo mirroring in 2 distinct types of jobs, is our friend who is an engineer, studied chemistry, and after, as an immigrant, and by moving from one town to another, the accessible working possibilities were being a waitress.
We are not prepared, and we don´t pursue a career and are passionate about it, or we want to do research because we want to immigrate. We emigrate because we had no posibilities to develop, or even to work in the native country.
After emigration, many of us find ourselves totally stuck in another closed and corrupt system, where the developmental possibilities are just publicity. If neurodivergent, you are still labelled and used, as women are.
Why is the host country not prepared for equitable treatment? Why are women not a priority for the job market? Why are we still called weirdos, instead of having opportunities and a dignifying workplace and life?
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Tras la emigración, muchas de nosotras y nosotros nos encontramos atrapadas en otro sistema, igualmente cerrado y corrupto, donde las supuestas oportunidades de desarrollo no son más que mera propaganda. Si, además, eres neurodivergente, te etiquetan y te utilizan; algo que también sufren las mujeres en general.
¿Por qué el país de acogida no está preparado para ofrecer un trato equitativo? ¿Por qué las mujeres no son una prioridad en el mercado laboral? ¿Por qué se nos sigue tildando de «raras y raritos», en lugar de brindarnos oportunidades y un entorno de trabajo digno?
