Uyghur Women Activists in the Diaspora
Palmer, Susan J. / Mahmut, Dilmurat / Udun, Abdulmuqtedir
This book explores the life stories of ten Uyghur women, all prominent political activists in the international Uyghur advocacy movement. Born and raised in East Turkestan/Xinjiang in the 1970s-90s, each woman departed from China before 2005 and chose to settle in Western countries. Today, they work tirelessly to defend the rights of Uyghurs and Turkic peoples in China, to raise public awareness of the PRC's campaign of colonization and popula...