Realising Family Reunification: Report on the UNHCR, IOM and Irish Red Cross Travel Assistant Programme

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This report provides an overview of the implementation of the TA programme and demonstrates its impact in reuniting family members. It also aims to show the sometimes-unseen practical steps and challenges that may be encountered following a positive family reunification decision. The analysis in this report predominantly focuses on the implementation of the TA programme and its impact since it … Read More

Author(s):Sarah Parle, Maria Hennessy
Publisher:UNHCR Ireland
Publication Date:29 Mar 2021
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Invisible People: The integration support needs of refugee families reunified in Ireland

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The right to family reunification is a well established principle of human rights law and is one that has particular relevance to refugees and other beneficiaries of international protection (UNHCR, 2018). Statutory provision for refugee family reunification in Ireland is set out under Section 56 and Section 57 of the International Protection Act 2015. In addition, the Irish government has … Read More

Author(s):Karen Smith, Muireann Ní Raghallaigh, Derina Johnson and Azad Izzeddin
Publisher:NASC
Publication Date:28 Jul 2020
Geographic Focus:Ireland
URL:https://nascireland.org/sites/default/files/Invisible%20People.pdf
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A Family Belongs Together: Refugees’ Experiences of Family Reunification in Ireland

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This report looks at the human consequences of the Irishgovernment’s policy on family reunification – the impact on refugee families andon their ability to integrate into Irish society. It begins with ashort analysis of the current policy context and then focuseson the voices of those affected by the legislation – voicestoo often missing in discussions around refugee familyreunification. The evidence … Read More

Author(s):Róisín Hinds
Publisher:Irish Refugee Council, Nasc and Oxfam
Publication Date:07 Mar 2018
Geographic Focus:Ireland
URL:http://www.irishrefugeecouncil.ie/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/3678-Oxfam-Refugee-Report_FINAL-1.pdf
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Children’s Rights and Refugee Law: Conceptualising Children within the Refugee Convention

Abstract Children make up half of the world’s refugees and over 40 per cent of the world’s asylum seekers. However, children are largely invisible in historical and contemporary refugee law. Furthermore, there has been very limited interaction between the burgeoning children’s rights framework, in particular the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), and the 1951 Convention relating to … Read More

Author(s):Samantha Arnold
Publisher:Routhledge
Publication Date:10 Aug 2017
Geographic Focus:Ireland
URL:https://www.routledge.com/Childrens-Rights-and-Refugee-Law-Conceptualising-Children-within-the/Arnold/p/book/9781138052710
ISBN:9781138052710
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Family reunification of non-EU nationals in Ireland

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Abstract This study investigates family reunification policy, law and practice in Ireland. It takes account of the INIS Policy Document on Non-EEA Family Reunification as well as the recent commencement of the International Protection Act 2015, which introduced significant changes to family reunification law for beneficiaries of international protection. This study focuses on rules governing family reunification for non-EEA citizens. In … Read More

Author(s):Samantha Arnold and Emma Quinn
Publisher:Economic and Social Research Institute
Publication Date:30 May 2017
Geographic Focus:Ireland
ISBN:978-0-7070-0434-1
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Family Reunification of Third-Country Nationals in the EU plus Norway: EMN Synthesis Report

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Abstract This study [1] aims to compare national policies and / or practices on family reunification between the different EU Member States plus Norway, and to provide up-to-date information on the latest developments in this area of legal migration to Europe since 2011 onwards. The study further aims to provide comparable data on the scale of family reunification in the … Read More

Author(s):European Migration Network
Publisher:Directorate General Migration and Home Affairs, European Commission
Publication Date:13 Apr 2017
Geographic Focus:Europe
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Societal, community, family, and individual factors affecting Russian language maintenance in migrant families in Ireland

Abstract This article analyses the effects of individual, family, community, and societal factors on language socialisation in Russian-speaking (RS) families from Russia and Latvia in Ireland. Sixty semi-structured interviews were conducted between 2008–2011 with RS parents and their children between 10 and 19 years of age. The analysis reveals that the Russian and Latvian cultural groups have different status in … Read More

Author(s):Svetlana Eriksson
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Online
Publication Date:22 May 2015
URL:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19409419.2015.1044868#.VWRaVk9VhBc
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Emotional streaming and transconnectivity: Skype and emotion practices in transnational families in Ireland

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  Abstract In this article I explore how transnational families, living in Ireland, use Skype to stay in touch with their loved ones. From 2010 to 2012, data were collected from a purposive, but broad sample of 36 qualitative ethnographic interviews with mixed couples (one partner identifies as Irish and one does not), throughout various parts of the Republic of … Read More

Author(s):Rebecca Chiyoko King-O’Riain
Publisher:Wiley Online
Publication Date:10 Dec 2014
Geographic Focus:null
URL:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/glob.12072/abstract
ISBN:null
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Annual Monitoring Report on Integration 2013


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This is the final report in a series of four annual Integration Monitors that measure migrant integration in four key life domains: employment, education, social inclusion and active citizenship. This report also contains a special theme: ‘The Second Generation: Children of Immigrants (at 3) and Their Families’, which uses data from the Infant Cohort of the Growing Up in Ireland … Read More

Author(s):Frances McGinnity (ESRI), Emma Quinn (ESRI), Gill Kingston (ESRI) and Philip O'Connell (Geary Institute, UCD)
Publisher:Economic and Social Research Institute and The Integration Centre
Publication Date:30 Jun 2014
Reference Period:01 Jan 2013 to 31 Dec 2013
Geographic Focus:Ireland
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Family Reunification – a barrier or facilitator of integration? Country Report Ireland


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This report outlines the current legislative and administrative policies/procedures governing applications for family reunification in Ireland, including applications for family members living overseas and in-country residence applications where family members may have met and formed family life in Ireland. It attempts to explore the impact of the process and application of family reunification on families when living in Ireland. On … Read More

Author(s):Hilkka Becker, Catherine Cosgrave and Melanie Labor
Publisher:Immigrant Council of Ireland
Publication Date:14 Feb 2013
Reference Period:01 Jan 2020 to 01 Oct 2012
Geographic Focus:Ireland
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Childhood and Migration in Europe: Portraits of Mobility, Identity and Belonging in Contemporary Ireland

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Childhood and Migration in Europe explores the under-researched and often misunderstood worlds of migrant children and young people, drawing on extensive empirical research with children and young people from diverse migrant backgrounds living in a rapidly changing European society. Through in-depth exploration and analysis of the experiences of children who moved to Ireland in the first decade of the 21st … Read More

Author(s):Caitríona Ní Laoire, Fina Carpena-Méndez, Naomi Tyrrell and Allen White.
Publisher:Ashgate
Publication Date:01 Dec 2012
Geographic Focus:Europe, Ireland
URL:http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409401094
ISBN:9781409401094
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Misuse of the Right to Family Reunification: Ireland

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Abstract This EMN focussed study looks at two instances of misuse of the right to family reunification in Ireland, namely marriages of convenience and false declarations of parenthood. See also: Misuse of the Right to Family Reunification: EMN Synthesis Report National reports from other EU Member States and Norway Misuse of the Right to Family Reunification: EMN Inform

Author(s):Corona Joyce
Publisher:Economic and Social Research Institute
Publication Date:15 Aug 2012
Geographic Focus:Ireland
ISBN:9780707003399
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Misuse of the Right to Family Reunification: EMN Synthesis Report

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This EMN Focussed Study responds to a growing concern, notably of policymakers as well as in the media, that the right to family reunification may be misused as a route into settlement in the EU. It also serves to inform the Green Paper on the Family Reunification Directive 2003/86/EC. The aim of the study was to identify the scale and … Read More

Author(s):European Migration Network
Publisher:Directorate General for Home Affairs, European Commission
Publication Date:30 Jun 2012
Geographic Focus:Europe
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Misuse of the Right to Family Reunification: EMN Inform


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Abstract This EMN Inform summarises the scale and scope of two instances of misuse, namely marriages of convenience and false declarations of parenthood and to provide clear evidence, to the extent possible and including available statistics, of these types of misuse and how best to address them. It also summarises (Member) States’ current practices in the detection and prevention of … Read More

Author(s):European Migration Netwok
Publisher:Directorate General Home Affairs, European Commission
Publication Date:30 Jun 2012
Geographic Focus:Europe
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Narratives of ‘Innocent Irish Childhoods’: Return Migration and Intergenerational Family Dynamics

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There is growing recognition of the significance of circular and return migration in contemporary global migration flows. Although many return moves involve adults accompanied by their children, these migrant children are a relatively invisible and under-researched group. In this article I explore the experiences of children who have moved to Ireland with their Irish return-migrant parent(s)—a group who were born … Read More

Author(s):Caitríona Ní Laoire
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Online
Publication Date:30 Jun 2011
Geographic Focus:Ireland
URL:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2011.590928
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Children’s Roles in Transnational Migration

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There are important gaps in our knowledge about children who migrate. Even in societies which employ technologically sophisticated systems for monitoring and measuring migration, data on child migrants are incomplete and focused on specific groups of vulnerable children and young people. The lack of data and research on processes underpinning child migration and on the experiences of children who migrate … Read More

Author(s):Allen White, Caitríona Ní Laoire, Naomi Tyrell and Fina Carpena-Méndez
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Online
Publication Date:30 Jun 2011
Geographic Focus:Ireland
URL:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2011.590635
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