Amrit Wilson Explained

Birth Place:India
Occupation:Writer, journalist and activist
Notable Works:Finding a Voice: Asian Women in Britain (1978)

Amrit Wilson (born 1941)[1] is a British-Indian[2] writer, journalist and activist who since the 1970s has focused on issues of race and gender in Britain and South Asian politics.[3] Her 1978 book Finding a Voice: Asian Women in Britain[4] won the Martin Luther King Award, and remains an influential feminist book. Her other book publications include Dreams, Questions, Struggles: South Asian Women in Britain (London: Pluto Press, 2006), and as a journalist she has been published in outlets including Ceasefire Magazine,[5] Media Diversified,[6] openDemocracy[7] and The Guardian.[8] [9]

Background

Wilson grew up in India and came to Britain as a student in 1961. She became a freelance journalist in 1974, and was active as an anti-racist militant in the 1970s.[10] Wilson's book Finding a Voice: Asian Women in Britain, first published in 1978 and reprinted 40 years later,[11] has been described as "[c]hallenging the views of South Asian women as weak, submissive, one-dimensional stereotypes" and as having "cleared the space for Asian women to speak for themselves".[12] Wilson was a founder member of Awaz, the UK's first Asian feminist collective, and was active in OWAAD, the Organisation of Women of Asian and African Descent (1978–82).[13] She was formerly chair of Imkaan, a national network of Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic and Refugee women's refuges and services for women facing violence, and is a founder member of South Asia Solidarity Group.[14]

She also was Senior Lecturer in Women's Studies/South Asian Studies at Luton University,[15] and has carried an Overseas Citizenship of India (OCI).[16]

In April 2024, Wilson revealed that she had had her OCI card withdrawn by the Indian government and is unable to travel to India after having been accused of "anti-India activities" and "detrimental propaganda against the Indian government."[17]

Selected bibliography

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Amrit Wilson. Women of Substance: Profiles of Asian Women in the UK. 1997. 152. EBSCOhost.
  2. Web site: South Asian women in Britain: Finding a voice, 40 years on. Media Diversified. 17 January 2019. 13 September 2020.
  3. Web site: 'Reclaiming our collective past': Amrit Wilson reflects on 40 years of anti-racist feminist work. gal-dem. Sophia. Siddiqui. 30 October 2018. 13 September 2020.
  4. A burning fever: the isolation of Asian women in Britain. Race & Class. 20. 2. 1 October 1978. 10.1177/030639687802000203. Wilson. Amrit. 129–142. 145473127.
  5. Web site: Amrit Wilson. Ceasefire. 13 September 2020.
  6. Web site: Category: Amrit Wilson. Media Dversified. 13 September 2020.
  7. Web site: Amrit Wilson. Open Democracy.
  8. Web site: Speaker bios. Islamophobia Conference 2017: The Rise of Nativism.
  9. Web site: Amrit Wilson. The Guardian.
  10. Book: Alison Donnell. Alison . Donnell. Companion to Contemporary Black British Culture. https://books.google.com/books?id=VfdpdZ9DwH0C&pg=PA323-4. 2002. Routledge. 978-1-134-70025-7. 323–4. Seth, Roshan.
  11. Web site: Event Report – 'Finding a Voice: Asian Women in Britain'. Islamic Human Rights Commission. 6 March 2019.
  12. Web site: Review – Finding a Voice: Asian women in Britain. Red Pepper. Maya. Goodfellow. 8 June 2019. 7 October 2020.
  13. Web site: Amrit Wilson. British Library.
  14. Web site: Amrit Wilson. The Strike at Imperial Typewriters. 13 September 2020. 15 June 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210615224609/https://strikeatimperial.net/amrit-wilson. dead.
  15. Web site: Amrit Wilson. Pluto Press.
  16. Web site: 2023-05-23 . Hearing adjourned in journalist’s revision plea on cancelled OCI card . 2024-03-22 . The Indian Express . en.
  17. Web site: Barnett . Marcus . 2024-04-26 . Solidarity With Amrit Wilson . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20240506231600/https://tribunemag.co.uk/2024/04/solidarity-with-amrit-wilson . 2024-05-06 . 2024-05-06 . . en-GB.

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