Full Description
Bassel and Emejulu explore minority women's experiences of and resistances to austerity measures in France and Britain. Minority women are often portrayed as passive victims. However, Minority women and austerity demonstrates how they use their race, class, gender and legal status as a resource for collective action in the face of the neoliberal colonisation of non-governmental organisations, the failures of left-wing politics and the patronising initiatives of policy-makers.
Contents
Foreword by Patricia Hill Collins
Taking minority women's activism seriously
Theorising and resisting 'political racelessness' in Europe
Whose crisis counts?
Enterprising activism
The politics of survival
Learning across cases, learning beyond 'cases'
Conclusion: warning signs
