The Collective Mobilisation of African Women in Athens ‘United We Stand’

As the above quote reminds us, long before the current economic crisis, African women in Greece have faced the ordinary, institutionalised social and economic inequalities based on race, class, gender, religion and legal status that individual women deal with every day.¹ In recent years, however, austerity, high unemployment and increasing anti-migrant sentiment have intensified the vulnerability of this and other already marginalised groups in multiple ways. In a context in which national identity and belonging are racialised as white, and in which migrant women are invisible as active independent agents, processes of gendered racialisation operate to make African women hyper-visible