ABSTRACT
In the introduction, we will address the state of the art of integrating intersectionality with minority studies, discussing their theoretical and methodological linkages along with their contextualisation, conceptualisation, and genealogy. The edited volume focuses on minority women, engaging with the multiple social locations that minority women experience, whether ethnic, national, linguistic, racial, cultural, or in terms of their sexual identity, across the social, legal, and digital spheres. We will introduce how the book uses the concepts of agency, power, and participation to advance the application of intersectionality for the study of minority women. We will also underscore the challenges of bringing existing understandings of intersectionality into minority studies in light of contention around intersectionality as a travelling theory, the context of decolonisation, and the need to pay attention to geo-historical and socio-political structures of power.
