Seventy Years Of Struggle And Achievement

Edited and Selected by Meena Upadhyaya and Chris WeedonNarrative editor Kirsten LavineForeword by Julie Morgan and Jane HuttIntroduction by Prof Terry Threadgold, previous Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Cardiff UniversityThe stories of women from Wales' minority communities are seldomheard. This book comprises the life stories of 40 Black Asian MinorityEthnic women that were finalists/winners for the Ethnic Minority WelshWomen Achievement award (2011-2019). The women featured includesome from long-settled, often mixed families and women from variousparts of South and East Asia, Africa, the Caribbean, and the Middle East.Their life experiences are a fundamental part of the history of multi-ethnicWales. Individual stories testify both to the struggle and to the remarkablecontribution that minority women have made to the many sectors of Welshsociety.