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Diaspora, Gender And Narrative Journeys: Italian Migrant Women In Ireland. This study concerns Italian migrant women in Ireland, who are the most invisible subjects of a forgotten yet ?exceptional? history of migration. It focuses on migrants? sense of belonging and affiliation, conceptualising the Italian women?s condition of being in migration as that of a ?double diaspora? (doubly invisible and removed, as migrant and as women but also as actors of a two-tiered sociality). The analysis is based on open-ended and unstructured interviews conducted with 29 Italian women of first, second and third-generation migrants and on document analysis, focusing on existing representations of Italian migrants in Ireland and on the politicisation of diasporic discourses in Italy. This study holds women?s personal narratives as informative of gendered meanings of migration, and as performative practices, which allow shifting gender norms to sustain the fluidity of diasporic identities. The analysis demonstrates that in diaspora, women's narrative practices function as a social strategy to create collective (gender and diasporic) boundaries, which are both stable and shifting. Women?s narratives allow the women to forge new gender roles within their families and groups and to find a place in their diasporic destinations, supporting their migration process, providing them company and containing their isolation. ; TARA (Trinity?s Access to Research Archive) has a robust takedown policy. Please contact us if you have any concerns: rssadmin@tcd.ie

All in the mix: class, race and school choice considers how parents choose secondary schools for their children and makes an important intervention into debates on school choice and education. The book examines how parents talk about race, religion and class – in the process of choosing. It also explores how parents' own racialised and classed positions, as well as their experience of education, can shape the way they approach choosing schools. Based on in-depth interviews with parents from different classed and racialised backgrounds in three areas in and around Manchester, the book shows how discussions about school choice are shaped by the places in which the choices are made. It argues that careful consideration of choosing schools opens up a moment to explore the ways in which people imagine themselves, their children and others in social, relational space.

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 religious difference (as it is commonly understood) but also by other differences which parents may consider important, particularly class and approaches to parenting. We stress the need to examine what parents say about schooling in the context in which they are talking, which is shaped by local areas and the experiences of their children in primary schools. Based on interviews with an ethnically mixed groups of parents from different schools, we show how perceptions of the racialized and class demographics of schools can influence parents' choice of secondary schools. The paper also argues that attention needs to be paid to the ways in which terms such as 'multicultural' and 'mix' are applied uniformly to very different contexts, be they particular schools or local areas, suggesting there is a paucity of language in Britain when talking about multiculture. © 2013 The Editorial Board of The Sociological Review.

AbstractIn 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 addressing discrimination, isolation, exclusion, violence and racism, through promoting gendered and culturally sensitive services and policies. We outline three phases in AkiDwA's development since the onset of immigration in the 1990s, from the informal to the global, situating it as the hub of overlapping national and global networks of migrant women, spanning Ireland, Europe and beyond. We conclude by suggesting that network analysis, rather than being a general grand theory, allows us to develop the micro‐macro links that, as Robert Holton argues, bring together small worlds with larger structures.