Assessing Supports for Political Inclusion of Racial and Ethnic Minoritized Women in Ireland.

Thursday, July 1, 2021 - 14:00 to 16:30
Online

ASPIRE is a research study in collaboration with the National Traveller Women’s Forum and AkiDwA (the National Network of Migrant Women living in Ireland), funded by the Irish Research Council and the Department of Children, Equality, Disability Integration and Youth.  The project, “Assessing Supports for the Political Inclusion of Traveller, Racial, Migrant and Ethnic Minority Women in Ireland", seeks to learn about Traveller, ethnic minority and migrant women's experiences of and access to local government and politics in Ireland. To date most research in this area is from a majority women’s perspective. This project explores how minoritized women understand, assess and experience local politics in Ireland.  In this first webinar we invite experts to share their research about Black women’s experiences of political office in the United States and Traveller, Gypsy and Roma women’s experiences of governance in Scotland. We will also share preliminary findings from the ASPIRE project.  Minoritized women and representatives from support and training programmes will offer reflections and share their experiences about existing supports and possible future directions for enabling minoritized women’s access to local politics in Ireland.

Please email mussi@mu.ie if you would be interested in attending this event.