The article presents the voices and concerns of activist women in the Indian diaspora in Canada who, faced with much evidence of domestic and sexual violence against women, have begun to analyse domestic violence and their own roles in combating it. The article explores different ways in which women activists have struggled in an alien land to raise the issue of Indian women being subjected to forms of violence that seem magnified by the vulnerable position of immigrant women who lack a secure residence status. While there have been notable achievements, huge challenges remain, both within the South Asian community structures as within wider Canadian society and mainstream feminist discourses.
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