Dr. Conely De Leon
Dr. de Leon is on leave.
Areas of Expertise
labour migration; gendered and racialized care work; transnational solidarities; collective grief; community-engaged research; digital storytelling; digital kwentuhan (鈥榯alk story鈥�); Critical Filipina/x/o Studies; Critical Race Theory; Gender, Feminist, and Women鈥檚 Studies; Diaspora and Transnational Studies
Biography
Dr. de Leon鈥檚 current work focuses on collective grief among racialized migrant communities and the pivotal role that community care plays in mourning and healing from collective losses. Dr. de Leon鈥檚 current trajectory builds on her research on migrant care work and transnational kinship practices in the Philippines, Hong Kong, and so-called Canada.
Further, in response to heightened grief and loss during the pandemic, Dr. de Leon is pursuing professional certification as a grief educator and counsellor. She has also co-founded the Pahinga (Rest) Collective with Filipina/x/o graduate students, community organizers, and service providers representing migrant, queer, and feminist grassroots organizations in Tkaronto. Through digital kwentuhan (talk story), songs, soundscapes, and somatics, they aim to contribute to embodied understandings of rest as a form of anti-colonial and anti-capitalist resistance, and healing justice.
Dr. de Leon鈥檚 multimodal approach to collaboration and co-creation further extends to her teaching. Dr. de Leon is in the process of developing a 鈥楧igital Storytelling for Social Justice鈥� curriculum, which will bring together digital media and community-engaged research with hands-on training and skills development. The proposed curriculum promises to enhance students鈥� understanding of digital research in action, and create opportunities for students to apply their knowledge and expertise to the issues that matter to them the most.
Recent Publications
de Leon, C. and V. Francisco-Menchavez. 2022. "Overseas Filipino workers" in , eds. K. Nadal, A. Tintiangco-Cubales and E.J.R David. Sage.
de Leon, C. and Pahinga Collective. 2022. Alon: Journal for Filipinx American and Diasporic Studies 2(2): 111-123.
Lightman, N., R. Banerjee, E. Tungohan, C. de Leon, and P. Kelly. 2021. International Migration.
Banerjee, R., P. Kelly, E. Tungohan, P. Cleto, C. de Leon, M. Garcia, M. Luciano, C. Palmaria, and C. Sorio. 2018. ILR Review 71(4): 908-936.
de Leon, C. 2014. 鈥淔amily separation and reunification among former Filipina migrant domestic workers and their adult daughters in two Canadian cities鈥� in (pp. 139-158), edited by M. Romero, V. Preston, and W. Giles. London: Ashgate.