Uyghur Women Activists in the Diaspora

<b>Presenting the life stories of ten Uyghur women this book applies the techniques of</b><b>narrative analysis to explore their changing worldviews and conversions to political</b><b>engagement.</b>Born and raised in East Turkestan/Xinjiang in the 1970s-90s each woman after personally experiencing incidents of ethnic discrimination chose to leave China before 2005. Settling in a western country they strive to become the voice of the Turkic people who are silenced or detained in the re-education camps.<br/><br/>The narratives are based on interviews conducted online between 2020 and 2021 collected as a form of oral history. The book focuses on the escalating tensions turning points experienced in their youth and the religious political and psychological factors that prompted their transformations in self-identity ideology and the emergence of a new Uyghur-Muslim feminism.<br/><br/>Through the women's stories the book describes how women activists are navigating the competing reality constructions of the dire situation in the Uyghur Homeland and actively restorying a genocide to bring about social and political change.<br/><b></b>