Women of Colour Resist: Exploring Women of Colour’s Activism in Europe

Women of Colour Resist is a cross-national comparative research project thatexamines how women of colour activists in the Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany,Spain and the United Kingdom strategise, organise and mobilise against austerity,against the far right and for migrants’ rights. The six countries in our study arecurrently experiencing some form of destabilisation due to a combination ofausterity, a backlash to migration and illiberal politics. Our project attempts tomake visible women of colour’s activist labour. Working with six research assistantswho conducted the fieldwork, we undertook 167 interviews and focus groups andanalysed activists’ social media activity from May 2019 to January 2020.