ABSTRACT
This chapter contributes to a better understanding of the varied approaches to research on intersectionality. The chapter analyses more deeply how scholars have contributed in different ways to the development of intersectional analysis in which ethnicity/race or migration is the main concern. The chapter first traces the roots of intersectionality to Black Feminism and discusses some texts that have been important for its development. Then it reviews a number of intersectionality studies starting with Kimberle Crenshaw's analysis of the discrimination law in the US in the late 1980s and ending with Diana Mulinari's study of midwives in the Swedish welfare system. The chapter illustrates and discusses different examples of intersectional studies depending on the position from which the researcher writes. It presents the more poststructuralist researchers and develops theories and research within a wide range of research fields by the use of intersectional analysis.
