ABSTRACT
Asian women have been at the forefront of numerous industrial, political and social struggles over the last decade. They have also been subjected to the full oppressive force of immigration legislation and institutional racism at all levels of British society. Yet, existing literature on black people in Britain has tended to ignore gender differences or to look at them through ethnocentric and pathological categories. 1 With the exception of a few recent studies, 2 there have been no serious attempts to analyse the role of women in the processes of migration and settlement, let alone the struggles against racism which have characterized the everyday lives of West Indian and Asian people in Britain.
