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

Women of Colour Resist is a cross-national comparative research project that examines 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 are currently experiencing some form of destabilisation due to a combination of austerity, a backlash to migration and illiberal politics. Our project attempts to make visible women of colour’s activist labour. Working with six research assistants who conducted the fieldwork, we undertook 167 interviews and focus groups and analysed activists’ social media activity from May 2019 to January 2020.