The WSFM is a regularly occurring thematic event derived from the World Social Forum. It is a meeting space for unity in diversity, aiming to strengthen and articulate the voices of civil society, seeking to build a new vision of migration, and to promote inclusion, respect and equality in defence of the rights of migrants and their families. It is a forum for dialogue between migrant organisations, advocacy groups and labour unions, developing visions and strategies for confronting social exclusion and racism. The forum interrogates ground causes of migration, global inequalities, environmental crises and scrutinises alternatives to complex emergencies causing contemporary forced migration. One of the ambitions of the WSFM ahead is to develop a global solidarity network of “Sanctuary Cities”.
Dialogues and meetings during the WSFM in Mexico City were based on the following thematic parameters:
• Human, labor and union rights, social inclusion, hospitality and mobility.
• Realities of borders, walls and other barriers.
• Resistances, actors, movements and collective actions.
• The systemic crisis of capitalism and its consequences for migration.
• Migration, gender and body.
• Migration, the rights of Mother Nature, climate change and North – South disputes.
• Diasporas, transnational communities and an active migrant population.