Minority Women, Rights and Intersectionality Agency, Power, and Participation

Foreword
Sia Spiliopoulou Åkermark

Introduction: Minority Women: Bringing Intersectionality to Minority Rights Studies
Alexandra Cosima Budabin, Jody Metcalfe, and Shilpi Pandey

I. Moving Beyond Gender and Minority Neutrality in International Policy Implementation  

1. The Rights of National Minority Women in the Council of Europe: The Case for Intersectionality
Meyeti Payet  

2. Making Claims at the United Nations: How Intersectional Frames Matter for Minority Women  
Alexandra Cosima Budabin

3.  Making the Women Peace and Security Agenda More Inclusive: An Intersectional Perspective on Minority Women
Elisa Piras

4. Women of African Descent, Intersectionality and Human Rights
Satang Nabaneh

5. Policymaking from the Margins: Reflections on the First Ten-Year Implementation of AU Agenda 2063
Mandipa Bongiwe Ndlovu

II. Examining Barriers in Digital, Legal, And Socio-Economic Spheres

6. Unveiling Colonial Legacies: Negotiating Intersectional Identity(ies) and Rights of Muslim Women - A Comparative Analysis of France and India
Shilpi Pandey

7. Exclusion(s) of Roma Women from Local Political Representation in Romania
Oana Buta

8. Interrogating Intersectionality in Institutional Feminism(S) and Politics in Spain: The Interplay between LGBTQIA+ and Minority Rights 
Paula Medina García

9. What Hinders (An Effective) Socioeconomic Participation of Minority Women? An Intersectional Analysis on South Tyrol and Catalonia
Alexandra Tomaselli

10. Intersectionality, Artificial Intelligence and Algorithmic Fairness: An Oxymoron or a Reality?
Roberta Medda-Windischer and Katharina Crepaz

III. Making Visible: Activism and Resistance of Minority Women

11. Intersections of Status: Future-Making Activism of Afro-Polish Women and African Migrants in Poland
Patrycja Koziel

12. Digital Self-Representation of Minority Wom*n: An Intersectional Analysis of Sámi Content Creators
Kyriaki Topidi and Jody Metcalfe

Epilogue: Intersectional Justice and Minority Women
Joshua Castellino and Farida A. Hashim

Index

Biography

Alexandra Cosima Budabin, Institute for Minority Rights, Eurac Research, Italy.

Jody Metcalfe, Utrecht University, Netherlands/European Centre for Minority Issues, Germany.

Shilpi Pandey, Department of Public Law, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium.

“A compelling collection that showcases the transformative potential of intersectionality in minority studies. With its focus on agency and participation over victimization and vulnerability, this book challenges the boundaries of minority rights and reshapes the narrative around minority women, offering fresh insights for the field.”
Serena D'Agostino, University of Antwerp