ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book examines experience of the ‘activism of intersectionality’ as a tool with political potential to be reclaimed and yet to be discovered. It explores the complexity of social work within contexts of increasingly diverse, cosmopolitan families, communities and societies. The book offers empirical research with British South Asian Muslim women in the context of Islamophobia in the UK. It analyses navigates intersectional micro-embodied discursive practices in the minutiae of everyday ordinary spaces. The book argues that scholars of intersectionality and social movements need to consider the relevance of the digital space and the context of social media activism. It focuses on research with the Lesbian Immigration Support Group in Manchester, UK, to examine the complexities for Black, African and Asian lesbian asylum seekers within the British asylum system.
