Carla De Tona
Biographic Data
| ID | 1143055 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carla De Tona |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carla |
| FAMILY NAME | De Tona |
| SIGNATURE | DE TONA C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4263-0951 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Theorizing Migrant-Led Activism
Investing in Hope? Gendered Resistance and the Struggle of Migrant Womenâ s Associations in Ireland
Multicultural Desires? Parental Negotiation of Multiculture and Difference in Choosing Secondary Schools for their Children
This paper considers the ways in which parents talk about choosing secondary schools in three areas of Greater Manchester. It argues that this can be a moment when parents are considering their own attitudes to, and shaping their children's experiences of, multiculture. Multiculture is taken as the everyday experience of living with difference. The paper argues that multiculture needs to be understood as shaped not only by racialized, ethnic or r…
Theorizing Migrant-Led Activism
Much attention has been paid to migrant associations in the scholarly literature, in the media and at policy level. This is not surprising, given their effectiveness in supporting and lobbying for migrants in contexts which often render them invisible and discriminate against them. The study of migrant associations and other forms of migrant activism is a prism through which we can understand the participation and integration of people who move a…
Investing in Hope? Gendered Resistance and the Struggle of Migrant Women’s Associations in Ireland
Of the 436 migrant associations we could describe as migrant-led and migrant-organized that we identified in 2009 (De Tona et al., 2010), 66 groups were specifically set up by and for migrant women. These associations are important beyond their numeric presence, considering that women are also affiliated with general migrant associations. Assessing women’s roles in general migrant associations is difficult, because their work is often subsumed un…
Trying to find the extra choices’
This article, based on qualitative research in Greater Manchester, examines the experience of migrants in navigating the education system, and in particular in choosing secondary schools for their children. There has been extensive research on the process of choosing schools since the policy reforms of the 1980s, but none has examined how the process of choosing a secondary school is impacted by the material and affective impact of migration. The…
Networking sisterhood, from the informal to the global
In this article we document the networking strategies of Ireland's leading migrant women's organization, AkiDwA - the African and Migrant Women's Network. We begin by positing networking as a process of agency and transformation and argue for the heuristic potential of 'network' in unpacking the gendered experiences of migration. Employing theoretical and ethnographic tools, we position AkiDwA as key to understanding how migrant women have been a…
Building a Platform for Our Voices to be Heard
Several migrant women's organisations have been set up in Ireland over the last decade. This article surveys three such groups: NOUR (Al Huda Women's Group), a Dublin independent Muslim women's group; WOMB (Women of Multi-Culture Balbriggan), a suburban multi-ethnic women's network; and AkiDwA, the African and Migrant Women's Network. In the second part of the article we focus in more depth on the evolution of the first two-NOUR and WOMB-both ver…
I remember when years ago in Italy’
Trying to find the extra choices’
This article, based on qualitative research in Greater Manchester, examines the experience of migrants in navigating the education system, and in particular in choosing secondary schools for their children. There has been extensive research on the process of choosing schools since the policy reforms of the 1980s, but none has examined how the process of choosing a secondary school is impacted by the material and affective impact of migration. The…
I remember when years ago in Italy’
Multicultural Desires? Parental Negotiation of Multiculture and Difference in Choosing Secondary Schools for their Children
This paper considers the ways in which parents talk about choosing secondary schools in three areas of Greater Manchester. It argues that this can be a moment when parents are considering their own attitudes to, and shaping their children's experiences of, multiculture. Multiculture is taken as the everyday experience of living with difference. The paper argues that multiculture needs to be understood as shaped not only by racialized, ethnic or r…
Building a Platform for Our Voices to be Heard
Several migrant women's organisations have been set up in Ireland over the last decade. This article surveys three such groups: NOUR (Al Huda Women's Group), a Dublin independent Muslim women's group; WOMB (Women of Multi-Culture Balbriggan), a suburban multi-ethnic women's network; and AkiDwA, the African and Migrant Women's Network. In the second part of the article we focus in more depth on the evolution of the first two-NOUR and WOMB-both ver…
Networking sisterhood, from the informal to the global
In this article we document the networking strategies of Ireland's leading migrant women's organization, AkiDwA - the African and Migrant Women's Network. We begin by positing networking as a process of agency and transformation and argue for the heuristic potential of 'network' in unpacking the gendered experiences of migration. Employing theoretical and ethnographic tools, we position AkiDwA as key to understanding how migrant women have been a…
I remember when years ago in Italy’
Networking sisterhood, from the informal to the global
In this article we document the networking strategies of Ireland's leading migrant women's organization, AkiDwA - the African and Migrant Women's Network. We begin by positing networking as a process of agency and transformation and argue for the heuristic potential of 'network' in unpacking the gendered experiences of migration. Employing theoretical and ethnographic tools, we position AkiDwA as key to understanding how migrant women have been a…
Building a Platform for Our Voices to be Heard
Several migrant women's organisations have been set up in Ireland over the last decade. This article surveys three such groups: NOUR (Al Huda Women's Group), a Dublin independent Muslim women's group; WOMB (Women of Multi-Culture Balbriggan), a suburban multi-ethnic women's network; and AkiDwA, the African and Migrant Women's Network. In the second part of the article we focus in more depth on the evolution of the first two-NOUR and WOMB-both ver…
Theorizing Migrant-Led Activism
Much attention has been paid to migrant associations in the scholarly literature, in the media and at policy level. This is not surprising, given their effectiveness in supporting and lobbying for migrants in contexts which often render them invisible and discriminate against them. The study of migrant associations and other forms of migrant activism is a prism through which we can understand the participation and integration of people who move a…
Investing in Hope? Gendered Resistance and the Struggle of Migrant Women’s Associations in Ireland
Of the 436 migrant associations we could describe as migrant-led and migrant-organized that we identified in 2009 (De Tona et al., 2010), 66 groups were specifically set up by and for migrant women. These associations are important beyond their numeric presence, considering that women are also affiliated with general migrant associations. Assessing women’s roles in general migrant associations is difficult, because their work is often subsumed un…
Trying to find the extra choices’
This article, based on qualitative research in Greater Manchester, examines the experience of migrants in navigating the education system, and in particular in choosing secondary schools for their children. There has been extensive research on the process of choosing schools since the policy reforms of the 1980s, but none has examined how the process of choosing a secondary school is impacted by the material and affective impact of migration. The…
Theorizing Migrant-Led Activism
Investing in Hope? Gendered Resistance and the Struggle of Migrant Womenâ s Associations in Ireland
Multicultural Desires? Parental Negotiation of Multiculture and Difference in Choosing Secondary Schools for their Children
This paper considers the ways in which parents talk about choosing secondary schools in three areas of Greater Manchester. It argues that this can be a moment when parents are considering their own attitudes to, and shaping their children's experiences of, multiculture. Multiculture is taken as the everyday experience of living with difference. The paper argues that multiculture needs to be understood as shaped not only by racialized, ethnic or r…
Gender Studies (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Social science (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Negotiation (4 works) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (3 works) · Irish and British Studies (3 works) · Pedagogy (3 works)