Immigrant student achievement and educational policy in Ireland

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Abstract Much of the existing research on educational outcomes among immigrant-origin children has been conducted in “old” immigrant-receiving countries. This chapter focuses instead on how immigrant-origin children and youth fare in a country, the Republic of Ireland, where large-scale immigration is a more recent phenomenon. What makes this case of particular interest is the fact that the immigrant population in … Read More

Author(s):Merike Darmody and Emer Smyth
Publisher:Economic and Social Research Institute
Publication Date:22 Mar 2018
Geographic Focus:Ireland
URL:https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-74063-8_8
ISBN:978-3-319-74063-8
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Policy and practice in language support for newly arrived migrant children in Ireland and Spain

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Abstract Over the last decades, migration across Europe has continued to increase. Consequently, offering educational support for migrant students in the schools of host countries has been an extensively debated issue across Europe and further afield, especially in countries with a history of immigration. However, less is known about how education systems in the ‘new’ immigration countries have responded to … Read More

Author(s):Rosa M Rodríguez-Izquierdo , Merike Darmody
Publisher:British Journal of Education Studies
Publication Date:26 Dec 2017
Geographic Focus:Spain, Ireland
URL:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00071005.2017.1417973?journalCode=rbje20
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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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The social care needs of unaccompanied minors: The Irish experience

Abstract This article examines forms of care which can be used by social workers to best respond to unaccompanied minors (UAMs) given their complex needs and particular vulnerability combined with their agency and resilience. The vulnerabilities and agency/resilience of UAMs are examined in the context of multiple borders (cultural, political and physical) being negotiated by these young people. While it … Read More

Author(s):Deirdre Horgan, Muireann Ní Raghallaigh
Publisher:Taylor and Francis online
Publication Date:25 Jul 2017
Geographic Focus:Ireland
URL:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13691457.2017.1357018
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The social care needs of unaccompanied minors: the Irish experience

Abstract This article examines forms of care which can be used by social workers to best respond to unaccompanied minors (UAMs) given their complex needs and particular vulnerability combined with their agency and resilience. The vulnerabilities and agency/resilience of UAMs are examined in the context of multiple borders (cultural, political and physical) being negotiated by these young people. While it … Read More

Author(s):Deirdre Horgan UCC & Muireann Ní Raghallaigh UCD
Publisher:Taylor and Francis Online
Publication Date:25 Jul 2017
Geographic Focus:Ireland
URL:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13691457.2017.1357018
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Ireland’s Recession and the Immigrant-Native Earnings Gap

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Ireland’s Recession and the Immigrant-Native Earnings Gap in Labour Migration, EU Enlargement and the Great Recession Source: Martin Kahanec, Klaus Zimmerman (Ed.) , Labor Migration, EU Enlargement, and the Great Recession

Author(s):Alan Barrett, Adele Bergin, Elish Kelly, Seamus McGuinness
Publisher:Springer
Publication Date:18 May 2016
Geographic Focus:Ireland
URL:http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-662-45320-9
ISBN:978-3-662-45319-3
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The Impact of Adult Child Emigration on the Mental Health of Older Parents

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Abstract We explore whether older parents of adult children who emigrate experience, in the short term, increases in depressive symptoms and loneliness feelings compared to parents whose children do not migrate. We use data from the first two waves of The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing, which is a nationally representative sample of 8500 people aged 50 + living in … Read More

Author(s):Irene Mosca, Alan Barrett
Publisher:Journal of Population Economics
Publication Date:16 Jan 2016
Geographic Focus:Ireland
URL:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00148-015-0582-8
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The negotiation of culture in foster care placements for separated refugee and asylum seeking young people in Ireland and England

Abstract Little is known about separated asylum seeking young people in foster care. This article addresses this gap by drawing together findings from qualitative research conducted with separated refugee and asylum seeking young people in two studies – one in England and one in Ireland. Focusing on the role of culture, the authors examine similar findings from the two studies … Read More

Author(s):Muireann Ní Raghallaigh and Ala Sirriyeh
Publisher:SAGE Publications
Publication Date:13 Feb 2014
URL:http://chd.sagepub.com/content/early/2014/02/12/0907568213519137.abstract
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Football’s Irish exodus: Examining the factors influencing Irish player migration to English professional leagues

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Abstract The intention of this paper is to examine the range of interdependent processes that influence the decisions of Irish footballers to migrate from teams based in the League of Ireland to English Premier League and Football League clubs. Using data derived from a series of qualitative interviews conducted with a group of Irish players that had relocated to English … Read More

Author(s):Richard Elliott
Publisher:SAGE Publications
Publication Date:11 Feb 2014
URL:http://irs.sagepub.com/content/early/2014/02/09/1012690213519786.abstract
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Migrations – Ireland in a Global World

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Abstract available on: http://us.macmillan.com/migrations/MaryGilmartin Source: Mary Gilmartin and Allen White (eds.), Migrations – Ireland in a Global World (Irish Society), Manchester University Press, October 2013

Author(s):Mary Gilmartin and Allen White (eds.)
Publisher:Manchester University Press
Publication Date:22 Oct 2013
Geographic Focus:null
URL:http://us.macmillan.com/migrations/MaryGilmartin
ISBN:null
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New mobilities in Europe: Polish migration to Ireland post-2004

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Abstract  This book examines Polish migration to Ireland in the context of ‘new mobilities in Europe’. It includes detailed accounts of the working lives of a group of mainly skilled Polish migrants in Dublin. They were interviewed at regular intervals as part of a Qualitative Panel Study. Through this novel methodology, their careers and aspirations were traced as Ireland moved … Read More

Author(s):Torben Krings, Elaine Moriarty, James Wickham, Alicja Bobek and Justyna Salamońska
Publisher:Manchester University Press
Publication Date:27 Aug 2013
Geographic Focus:null
URL:http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?product=9780719088094
ISBN:null
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‘She Told Us Just There Was a School There…’: Cumulative Disadvantage of Migrant Pupils and Students in Irish Schools

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Source: In Nestor, N. (Ed.) English Language Support Teachers Association. Five-year anniversary journal. Celebrating five years of ELSTA conferences (2007-2011), 2013, pp. 114-132 Article available for purchase on: http://www.elsta.ie/

Author(s):Merike Darmody (ESRI)
Publisher:English Language Support Teachers' Association
Publication Date:20 Jun 2013
Geographic Focus:null
URL:http://www.elsta.ie/
ISBN:null
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Changing Ireland, 2000-2012: Immigration, Emigration and Inequality

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At the start of the twenty-first century, there have been significant changes in patterns of migration to and from Ireland. This paper provides a comprehensive account of available statistics on these migration patterns, and assesses the quality of this information, highlighting issues with the measurement of migrant flow in particular. The paper also provides information on migrant stock in Ireland, … Read More

Author(s):Mary Gilmartin
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Online
Publication Date:07 May 2013
Geographic Focus:Ireland
URL:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00750778.2013.794323#.UaifDECG1i4
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Immigrants and Welfare Receipt in Ireland

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to compare the rates of receipt of welfare for immigrants and natives in Ireland, to see if the outcome is consistent with the operation of a policy which was designed to limit immigrant access to welfare. Design/methodology/approach – The authors use micro-data from the Irish component European Union Survey on Income and … Read More

Author(s):Alan Barrett, Corona Joyce and Bertrand Maitre (ESRI)
Publisher:Emerald Group Publishing Ltd
Publication Date:24 Apr 2013
Geographic Focus:Ireland
URL:http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm?articleid=17086798&show=abstract
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‘Generation Emigration’: the politics of (trans)national social reproduction in twenty-first-century Ireland

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Placing social reproduction at the heart of the experience of migration, this article attempts to move beyond regulatory discourses of emigration as tragedy, lifestyle choice or ‘the Skype generation’. Following a review of feminist literature on social reproduction, the article returns to research with Irish women migrants and non-migrants in the 1990s to demonstrate how technologically mediated ‘time-space compression’ and … Read More

Author(s):Breda Gray
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Online
Publication Date:14 Mar 2013
Geographic Focus:Ireland
URL:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09670882.2012.759707#.UimkBsaG1i4
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European Migrants in Ireland: Pathways to Integration

Abstract Within the EU, efforts in relation to integration are generally directed towards migrants from outside the EU. However, there is evidence that intra-EU migrants face similar obstacles to integration to those of non-EU citizens. Since Ireland has a large EU migrant population, this paper critically explores EU migrants’ integration in Ireland. Drawing on awider longitudinal study, the paper focuses … Read More

Author(s):Mary Gilmartin and Bettina Migge
Publisher:SAGE Publications Ltd
Publication Date:07 Feb 2013
Geographic Focus:Ireland, Europe
URL:http://eur.sagepub.com/content/early/2013/02/05/0969776412474583.abstract
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Early-life Causes and Later-life Consequences of Migration: Evidence from Older Irish Adults

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Abstract Between 2009 and 2011, fieldwork was undertaken for the first wave of the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA). Extensive information was collected on about 8,500 individuals aged 50 and over and living in Ireland, covering topics such as economic circumstances and health. One of the features of Ireland’s older population is the remarkably high proportion of returned migrants, … Read More

Author(s):Alan Barrett, Irene Mosca
Publisher:Springer
Publication Date:22 Jan 2013
Geographic Focus:Ireland
URL:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs12062-012-9078-4
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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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Integration and Social Cohesion in the Republic of Ireland

Abstract available on: http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?product=9780719084799 Source: Bryan Fanning, Integration and Social Cohesion in the Republic of Ireland, Manchester University Press, November 2012

Author(s):Bryan Fanning
Publisher:Manchester University Press
Publication Date:01 Nov 2012
Geographic Focus:null
URL:http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?product=9780719084799
ISBN:null
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Polish Migration to Ireland: ‘Free Movers’ in the New European Mobility Space

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Since EU enlargement in 2004, Ireland has emerged as a major destination for Polish migrants. What are the particular features of this East–West migration? Based on repeat interviews with Polish migrants as part of a Qualitative Panel Study, we show that this migration is characterised by new mobility patterns. As ‘free movers’, Polish migrants are more mobile across national borders … Read More

Author(s):Torben Krings, Alicja Bobek, Elaine Moriarty, Justyna Salamonska and James Wickham
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Online
Publication Date:03 Oct 2012
Geographic Focus:Ireland, Poland
URL:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2012.723250
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