In this paper we draw on 55 in-depth interviews with minority women activists, third sector workers and local government officials in England, Scotland and France. We consider the ways in which minority women - situated at the crossroads of processes of racialization, the production of hierarchies of legal status, social exclusion and gender domination – can and do produce new forms of resistance to neoliberal hegemonies. However, we caution that this creative political capacity is increasingly constrained by the rise of an ‘enterprise culture’ in which the discursive space available to minority women often positions them as either ‘victims’ or ‘entrepreneurs’. Within broader anti-austerity movements and coalitions, racism and sexism may also constitute further obstacles to the dynamic, alternative politics minority women activists attempt to articulate and enact.
