In the past years, discussions about migration have become increasingly undifferentiated, racist and discriminating. Racism and discrimination are forms of violence that many migrants from marginalised communities experience daily.

These prejudices permeate the systems that should support survivors and intervene against violence. They have negative impacts on interventions against violence:

• Violence against women is culturalised and perpetrators are not referred to programmes, because "it's their culture".
• Women are afraid to come forward with their experiences because they do not want to confirm racist biases.
• Survivors do not report violence because the system keeps treating them like second-class humans or because they have experienced violence at the hands of the police.
• Perpetrators use the uncertain residence status of their partners to control and abuse them because their countries of residence will deport them if they leave their abusers.