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	'''Amrit Wilson''' (born 1941),<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/biographies/42835354/amrit-wilson\|title=Amrit Wilson\|work=Women of Substance: Profiles of Asian Women in the UK\|date=1997\|page=152\|via= EBSCOhost}}{{dead link\|date=November 2020\|bot=medic}}{{cbignore\|bot=medic}}</ref> Indian ~~by birth and based in Britain,~~<ref name=MediaDiversified>{{cite web\|url=https://mediadiversified.org/2019/01/17/south-asian-women-in-britain-finding-a-voice-40-years-on/\|title=South Asian women in Britain: Finding a voice, 40 years on\|website=[[Media Diversified]]\|date=17 January 2019\|accessdate=13 September 2020}}</ref> ~~is a~~ writer, journalist and activist who since the 1970s has focused on issues of race and gender in Britain and South Asian politics.<ref name=galdem>{{cite web\|url=https://gal-dem.com/collective-past-amrit-wilson-reflects-anti-racist-feminist-work/\|title='Reclaiming our collective past': Amrit Wilson reflects on 40 years of anti-racist feminist work\|website=[[gal-dem]]\|first=Sophia\|last= Siddiqui\|date=30 October 2018\|accessdate=13 September 2020}}</ref> Her 1978 book ''Finding a Voice: Asian Women in Britain''<ref>{{cite journal\|url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/030639687802000203\|title=A burning fever: the isolation of Asian women in Britain\|journal=[[Race & Class]]\|volume= 20\|issue =2\| date=1 October 1978\|doi=10.1177/030639687802000203\|last1=Wilson\|first1=Amrit\|pages=129–142\|s2cid=145473127}}</ref> won the Martin Luther King Award, and remains an influential feminist book.<ref name=MediaDiversified /> 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'',<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://ceasefiremagazine.co.uk/author/amrit-wilson/\|title=Amrit Wilson\|magazine=Ceasefire\|accessdate=13 September 2020}}</ref> ''[[Media Diversified]]'',<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://mediadiversified.org/category/amrit-wilson/\|title=Category: Amrit Wilson\|website=Media Dversified\|accessdate=13 September 2020}}</ref> [[openDemocracy]]<ref name=OD>{{cite web\|url=https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/author/amrit-wilson/\|title=Amrit Wilson\|website=Open Democracy}}</ref> and ''[[The Guardian]]''.<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.ihrc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/IC2017speakerbios.pdf\|title=Speaker bios\|publisher=Islamophobia Conference 2017: The Rise of Nativism}}</ref><ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.theguardian.com/profile/amrit-wilson\|title=Amrit Wilson\|newspaper=The Guardian}}</ref>		{{Short description\|British-Indian writer and activist (born 1941)}}
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			'''Amrit Wilson''' (born 1941)<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/biographies/42835354/amrit-wilson\|title=Amrit Wilson\|work=Women of Substance: Profiles of Asian Women in the UK\|date=1997\|page=152\|via= EBSCOhost}}{{dead link\|date=November 2020\|bot=medic}}{{cbignore\|bot=medic}}</ref> is a British-Indian<ref name=MediaDiversified>{{cite web\|url=https://mediadiversified.org/2019/01/17/south-asian-women-in-britain-finding-a-voice-40-years-on/\|title=South Asian women in Britain: Finding a voice, 40 years on\|website=[[Media Diversified]]\|date=17 January 2019\|accessdate=13 September 2020}}</ref> writer, journalist and activist who since the 1970s has focused on issues of race and gender in Britain and South Asian politics.<ref name=galdem>{{cite web\|url=https://gal-dem.com/collective-past-amrit-wilson-reflects-anti-racist-feminist-work/\|title='Reclaiming our collective past': Amrit Wilson reflects on 40 years of anti-racist feminist work\|website=[[gal-dem]]\|first=Sophia\|last= Siddiqui\|date=30 October 2018\|accessdate=13 September 2020}}</ref> Her 1978 book ''Finding a Voice: Asian Women in Britain''<ref>{{cite journal\|url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/030639687802000203\|title=A burning fever: the isolation of Asian women in Britain\|journal=[[Race & Class]]\|volume= 20\|issue =2\| date=1 October 1978\|doi=10.1177/030639687802000203\|last1=Wilson\|first1=Amrit\|pages=129–142\|s2cid=145473127\|url-access=subscription}}</ref> won the Martin Luther King Award, and remains an influential feminist book.<ref name=MediaDiversified /> 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'',<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://ceasefiremagazine.co.uk/author/amrit-wilson/\|title=Amrit Wilson\|magazine=Ceasefire\|accessdate=13 September 2020}}</ref> ''[[Media Diversified]]'',<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://mediadiversified.org/category/amrit-wilson/\|title=Category: Amrit Wilson\|website=Media Dversified\|date=16 July 2015 \|accessdate=13 September 2020}}</ref> [[openDemocracy]]<ref name=OD>{{cite web\|url=https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/author/amrit-wilson/\|title=Amrit Wilson\|website=Open Democracy\|date=22 July 2020 }}</ref> and ''[[The Guardian]]''.<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.ihrc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/IC2017speakerbios.pdf\|title=Speaker bios\|publisher=Islamophobia Conference 2017: The Rise of Nativism}}</ref><ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.theguardian.com/profile/amrit-wilson\|title=Amrit Wilson\|newspaper=The Guardian}}</ref>

	==Background==		==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.<ref name="Donnell2002">{{cite book\|editor-link=Alison Donnell\|editor=Alison Donnell\|title=Companion to Contemporary Black British Culture\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VfdpdZ9DwH0C&pg=PA323-4\|year=2002\|publisher=Routledge\|isbn=978-1-134-70025-7\|pages=323–4\|chapter=Seth, Roshan}}</ref> Wilson's book ''Finding a Voice: Asian Women in Britain'', first published in 1978 and reprinted 40 years later,<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.ihrc.org.uk/activities/event-reports/20653-event-report-finding-a-voice-asian-women-in-britain/\|title=Event Report – 'Finding a Voice: Asian Women in Britain'\|publisher=Islamic Human Rights Commission\|date=6 March 2019}}</ref> 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".<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.redpepper.org.uk/finding-a-voice-asian-women-in-britain/\|title= Review – Finding a Voice: Asian women in Britain\|magazine=[[Red Pepper (magazine)\|Red Pepper]]\|first=Maya\|last=Goodfellow\|date=8 June 2019\|accessdate=7 October 2020}}</ref> 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).<ref name=galdem /><ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.bl.uk/people/amrit-wilson\|title=Amrit Wilson\|publisher=[[British Library]]}}</ref> 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.<ref name=OD /><ref>{{cite web\|url=https://strikeatimperial.net/amrit-wilson\|title=Amrit Wilson\|website=The Strike at Imperial Typewriters\|accessdate=13 September 2020}}</ref>		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.<ref name="Donnell2002">{{cite book\|editor-link=Alison Donnell\|editor-first=Alison \|editor-last=Donnell\|title=Companion to Contemporary Black British Culture\|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VfdpdZ9DwH0C&pg=PA323-4\|year=2002\|publisher=Routledge\|isbn=978-1-134-70025-7\|pages=323–4\|chapter=Seth, Roshan}}</ref> Wilson's book ''Finding a Voice: Asian Women in Britain'', first published in 1978 and reprinted 40 years later,<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.ihrc.org.uk/activities/event-reports/20653-event-report-finding-a-voice-asian-women-in-britain/\|title=Event Report – 'Finding a Voice: Asian Women in Britain'\|publisher=Islamic Human Rights Commission\|date=6 March 2019}}</ref> 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".<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.redpepper.org.uk/finding-a-voice-asian-women-in-britain/\|title= Review – Finding a Voice: Asian women in Britain\|magazine=[[Red Pepper (magazine)\|Red Pepper]]\|first=Maya\|last=Goodfellow\|date=8 June 2019\|accessdate=7 October 2020}}</ref> 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).<ref name=galdem /><ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.bl.uk/people/amrit-wilson\|title=Amrit Wilson\|publisher=[[British Library]]}}</ref> 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.<ref name=OD /><ref>{{cite web\|url=https://strikeatimperial.net/amrit-wilson\|title=Amrit Wilson\|website=The Strike at Imperial Typewriters\|accessdate=13 September 2020\|archive-date=15 June 2021\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210615224609/https://strikeatimperial.net/amrit-wilson\|url-status=dead}}</ref>

	She also was Senior Lecturer in Women's Studies/South Asian Studies at [[Luton University]].<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.plutobooks.com/author/amrit-wilson/\|title=Amrit Wilson\|publisher=Pluto Press}}</ref>		She also was Senior Lecturer in Women's Studies/South Asian Studies at [[Luton University]],<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.plutobooks.com/author/amrit-wilson/\|title=Amrit Wilson\|publisher=Pluto Press}}</ref> and has carried an [[Overseas Citizenship of India]] (OCI).<ref>{{Cite web \|date=2023-05-23 \|title=Hearing adjourned in journalist's revision plea on cancelled OCI card \|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/india/hearing-adjourned-in-journalists-revision-plea-on-cancelled-oci-card-8623705/ \|access-date=2024-03-22 \|website=The Indian Express \|language=en}}</ref>

			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 India."<ref>{{Cite web \|last=Barnett \|first=Marcus \|date=2024-04-26 \|title=Solidarity With Amrit Wilson \|url=https://tribunemag.co.uk/2024/04/solidarity-with-amrit-wilson \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240506231600/https://tribunemag.co.uk/2024/04/solidarity-with-amrit-wilson \|archive-date=2024-05-06 \|access-date=2024-05-06 \|website=[[Tribune (magazine)\|Tribune]] \|language=en-GB}}</ref>

	==Selected bibliography==		==Selected bibliography==
	* ''Finding a Voice: Asian Women in Britain'' (1978; second edition Daraja Press, 2019, {{ISBN\|978-1988832012}})		* ''Finding a Voice: Asian Women in Britain'' (1978; second edition Daraja Press, 2019, {{ISBN\|978-1988832012}})
	* ''The Challenge Road: Women and the Eritrean Revolution'' (The Red Sea Press, 1991, {{ISBN\|978-0932415714}})		* ''The Challenge Road: Women and the Eritrean Revolution'' ([[The Red Sea Press]], 1991, {{ISBN\|978-0932415714}})
	* ''Dreams, Questions, Struggles: South Asian Women in Britain'' (London: [[Pluto Press]], 2006; {{ISBN\|9780745318479}})		* ''Dreams, Questions, Struggles: South Asian Women in Britain'' (London: [[Pluto Press]], 2006; {{ISBN\|9780745318479}})
	* ''The Threat of Liberation'' (Pluto Press, 2013; {{ISBN\|9781849649407}})		* ''The Threat of Liberation'' (Pluto Press, 2013; {{ISBN\|9781849649407}})
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'''Amrit Wilson''' (born 1941),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/biographies/42835354/amrit-wilson|title=Amrit Wilson|work=Women of Substance: Profiles of Asian Women in the UK|date=1997|page=152|via= EBSCOhost}}{{dead link|date=November 2020|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> Indian by birth and based in Britain,<ref name=MediaDiversified>{{cite web|url=https://mediadiversified.org/2019/01/17/south-asian-women-in-britain-finding-a-voice-40-years-on/|title=South Asian women in Britain: Finding a voice, 40 years on|website=[[Media Diversified]]|date=17 January 2019|accessdate=13 September 2020}}</ref> is a writer, journalist and activist who since the 1970s has focused on issues of race and gender in Britain and South Asian politics.<ref name=galdem>{{cite web|url=https://gal-dem.com/collective-past-amrit-wilson-reflects-anti-racist-feminist-work/|title='Reclaiming our collective past': Amrit Wilson reflects on 40 years of anti-racist feminist work|website=[[gal-dem]]|first=Sophia|last= Siddiqui|date=30 October 2018|accessdate=13 September 2020}}</ref> Her 1978 book ''Finding a Voice: Asian Women in Britain''<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/030639687802000203|title=A burning fever: the isolation of Asian women in Britain|journal=[[Race & Class]]|volume= 20|issue =2| date=1 October 1978|doi=10.1177/030639687802000203|last1=Wilson|first1=Amrit|pages=129–142|s2cid=145473127}}</ref> won the Martin Luther King Award, and remains an influential feminist book.<ref name=MediaDiversified /> 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'',<ref>{{cite web|url=https://ceasefiremagazine.co.uk/author/amrit-wilson/|title=Amrit Wilson|magazine=Ceasefire|accessdate=13 September 2020}}</ref> ''[[Media Diversified]]'',<ref>{{cite web|url=https://mediadiversified.org/category/amrit-wilson/|title=Category: Amrit Wilson|website=Media Dversified|accessdate=13 September 2020}}</ref> [[openDemocracy]]<ref name=OD>{{cite web|url=https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/author/amrit-wilson/|title=Amrit Wilson|website=Open Democracy}}</ref> and ''[[The Guardian]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ihrc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/IC2017speakerbios.pdf|title=Speaker bios|publisher=Islamophobia Conference 2017: The Rise of Nativism}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/profile/amrit-wilson|title=Amrit Wilson|newspaper=The Guardian}}</ref>

==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.<ref name="Donnell2002">{{cite book|editor-link=Alison Donnell|editor=Alison Donnell|title=Companion to Contemporary Black British Culture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VfdpdZ9DwH0C&pg=PA323-4|year=2002|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-70025-7|pages=323–4|chapter=Seth, Roshan}}</ref> Wilson's book ''Finding a Voice: Asian Women in Britain'', first published in 1978 and reprinted 40 years later,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ihrc.org.uk/activities/event-reports/20653-event-report-finding-a-voice-asian-women-in-britain/|title=Event Report – 'Finding a Voice: Asian Women in Britain'|publisher=Islamic Human Rights Commission|date=6 March 2019}}</ref> 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".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.redpepper.org.uk/finding-a-voice-asian-women-in-britain/|title= Review – Finding a Voice: Asian women in Britain|magazine=[[Red Pepper (magazine)|Red Pepper]]|first=Maya|last=Goodfellow|date=8 June 2019|accessdate=7 October 2020}}</ref> 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).<ref name=galdem /><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bl.uk/people/amrit-wilson|title=Amrit Wilson|publisher=[[British Library]]}}</ref> 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.<ref name=OD /><ref>{{cite web|url=https://strikeatimperial.net/amrit-wilson|title=Amrit Wilson|website=The Strike at Imperial Typewriters|accessdate=13 September 2020}}</ref>

She also was Senior Lecturer in Women's Studies/South Asian Studies at [[Luton University]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.plutobooks.com/author/amrit-wilson/|title=Amrit Wilson|publisher=Pluto Press}}</ref>

==Selected bibliography==
* ''Finding a Voice: Asian Women in Britain'' (1978; second edition Daraja Press, 2019, {{ISBN|978-1988832012}})
* ''The Challenge Road: Women and the Eritrean Revolution'' (The Red Sea Press, 1991, {{ISBN|978-0932415714}})
* ''Dreams, Questions, Struggles: South Asian Women in Britain'' (London: [[Pluto Press]], 2006; {{ISBN|9780745318479}})
* ''The Threat of Liberation'' (Pluto Press, 2013; {{ISBN|9781849649407}})

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