Diverse neighbourhoods: an analysis of the residential distribution of immigrants in Ireland


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This study finds that relative to the Irish population, migrants are fairly evenly distributed across neighbourhoods in Ireland.  This is positive, as migrant integration is more challenging in places where migrants are segregated from the host population. The study examines where in Ireland migrants live, how segregated they are from the Irish-born population and the types of areas they live in. … Read More

Author(s):Éamonn Fahey, Helen Russell, Frances McGinnity, Raffaele Grotti
Publisher:Economic and Social Research Institute
Publication Date:26 Jun 2019
Geographic Focus:Ireland
ISBN:978-0-7070-0488-4
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Preparing Teachers for Diversity: the Role of Initial Teacher Education: Final Report to DG Education, Youth, Sport and Culture of the European Commission

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Abstract Although the cultural, linguistic and religious diversity found in European societies is not a new phenomenon, its nature is rapidly changing. Europe is becoming increasingly diverse due to intra-European mobility and international migration, including an increased influx of refugees and asylum-seekers. These societal changes create both opportunities and challenges for schools, and education systems need to adapt accordingly. At … Read More

Author(s):Public Policy and Management Institute (PPMI)
Publisher:Publications Office of the European Union
Publication Date:07 Apr 2017
Geographic Focus:Europe
URL:https://publications.europa.eu/s/cPNz
ISBN:978-92-79-63792-6
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Religious diversity in primary schools: reflections from the Republic of Ireland

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Abstract Growing secularisation of the population and the arrival of new culturally and religiously diverse migrants are posing new challenges to schools in the Republic of Ireland (Ireland). These challenges are particularly acute in Irish primary schools, the majority of which are under Catholic patronage. Recent changes have necessitated an extensive consultation process about how to accommodate religious diversity and … Read More

Author(s):Daniel Faas, Merike Darmody and Beata Sokolowska
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Online
Publication Date:24 Mar 2015
URL:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01416200.2015.1025700#.VRpixPnF86U
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Analysing the Experiences of Discrimination in Ireland: Evidence from the QNHS Equality Module 2010

Download File This report analyses the Central Statistics Office’s Quarterly National Household Survey: Equality Module 2010. This module asks adults in Ireland about their experience of discrimination in a range of different situations. These data were collected after the labour market entered deep recession. The report compares this with data from an earlier Equality Module conducted in 2004 during the … Read More

Author(s):Frances McGinnity, Dorothy Watson and Gill Kingston (ESRI)
Publisher:The Equality Authority and the Economic and Social Research Institute
Publication Date:14 Dec 2012
Geographic Focus:Ireland
URL:http://www.esri.ie/UserFiles/publications/BKMNEXT223.pdf
ISBN:978-1-908275-59-2
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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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Monitoring Integration in Dublin City


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This report draws together current, relevant information on the profile and needs of the immigrant population combined with an overview of services offered to them with a view to monitoring the integration progress of immigrants in Dublin.

Author(s):Péter Szlovák and Ian McCafferty with the assistance of Kathy O’Connor and Helena Clarke (The Integration Centre)
Publisher:The Integration Centre
Publication Date:30 Apr 2012
Geographic Focus:Ireland
URL:http://www.integrationcentre.ie/getattachment/47953146-2168-4da1-9bf2-2a775846ffd6/Monitoring-Integration-in-Dublin-City--Full-Report.aspx
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Turbans, Hijabs and Other Differences: ‘Integration from Below’ and Irish Interculturalism

This article outlines the ease with which the Republic of Ireland had moved from publicly articulating Irish racism during the 1997 European Year Against Racism, to employing euphemisms such as interculturalism, transculturalism, integration and cultural diversity. In the rush to diversity, these euphemisms, employed unproblematically during the Irish economic boom, erase political terms such as ‘race’ and racism that state … Read More

Author(s):Ronit Lentin
Publisher:SAGE Journals.
Publication Date:01 Apr 2012
Geographic Focus:Ireland
URL:http://ecs.sagepub.com/content/15/2/226.short
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Modern African Migrations to Ireland: Patterns and Contexts

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The traditional migration literature somewhat underplays the historical complexity of African peoples and the particularistic and multidimensional character of their movements to various migration spaces. Drawing on compelling empirical data on African migrants in Ireland, this article explores the complexity of African international migrants in the current age of global migrations. It highlights how structural, relational and individual dynamics intersect … Read More

Author(s):Theophilus Ejorh
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Online
Publication Date:12 Mar 2012
Geographic Focus:Ireland
URL:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2012.659123
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The Impact of Migration on National Identity in a Globalized World: A Comparative Analysis of Civic Education Curricula in Ireland, France and England

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This article examines the extent to which citizens of migrant origin are included within discourses of national identity in civic education curricula in England, France and Ireland. We explore how much space is given to citizens of migrant origin in discourses of national identity in civic education curricula and how they fit with central values normalized by a higher degree … Read More

Author(s):Laura O'Connor and Daniel Faas
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Online
Publication Date:01 Jan 2012
Geographic Focus:Ireland
URL:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03323315.2011.579479
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The Changing Faces of Ireland: Exploring the Lives of Immigrant and Ethnic Minority Children

Before the economic boom of the 1990s, Ireland was known as a nation of emigrants. The past fifteen years, however, have seen the transformation of Ireland from a country of net emigration to one of net immigration, on a scale and at a pace unprecedented in comparative context. As a result, Irish society has become more diverse in terms of … Read More

Author(s):Merike Darmody, Naomi Tyrrell and Steve Song
Publisher:Springer
Publication Date:07 Apr 2011
Geographic Focus:Ireland
URL:http://www.springer.com/education+%26+language/book/978-94-6091-475-1
ISBN:978946091473
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Globalization, Migration and Social Transformation

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In the space of around ten years Ireland went from being a traditional labour exporter to a leading European economy, and thus an attractive destination for immigrants from Eastern Europe and further afield. This produced a singular social laboratory, which this book explores in all its complexity set against the backdrop of globalization. Until recently seen as a showcase for … Read More

Author(s):Bryan Fanning and Ronaldo Munck
Publisher:Ashgate
Publication Date:01 Apr 2011
Geographic Focus:Ireland, Europe
URL:http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409411284
ISBN:9781409411284
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Immigrant Candidates and Politics in the Republic of Ireland: Racialization, Ethnic Nepotism, or Localism?

Recent waves of new immigration distinct from postcolonial-era migrations can be identified in many Western countries. More than 40 such “new immigrant” candidates contested the 2009 local government elections in the Republic of Ireland. This article draws on interviews with just under half of these and on official responses from each of the Republic’s five political parties to a study … Read More

Author(s):Bryan Fanning, Kevin Howard and Neil O'Boyle
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Online
Publication Date:14 Dec 2010
Geographic Focus:Ireland
URL:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13537113.2010.527233
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‘Building a platform for our voices to be heard’: Migrant Women’s Networks as Locations of Transformation in the Republic of Ireland

Several migrant women’s organisations have been set up in Ireland over the last decade. This article surveys three such groups: NOUR (Al Huda Women’s Group), a Dublin independent Muslim women’s group; WOMB (Women of Multi-Culture Balbriggan), a suburban multi-ethnic women’s network; and AkiDwA, the African and Migrant Women’s Network. In the second part of the article we focus in more … Read More

Author(s):Ronit Lentin and Carla de Tona
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Online
Publication Date:25 Nov 2010
Geographic Focus:Ireland
URL:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2011.526780
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Making Equality Count: Irish and International Research Measuring Equality and Discrimination

Despite legislation outlawing discrimination across the EU, inequalities between groups appear to be an enduring feature of Irish and European societies. The extent to which inequality is due to discrimination is a matter of continuing debate and controversy. Accurately measuring discrimination is therefore a crucial yet challenging task. This volume showcases Irish and international research on inequality, and on discrimination … Read More

Author(s):Laurence Bond (Equality Authority), Frances McGinnity and Helen Russell (ESRI)
Publisher:Liffey Press
Publication Date:18 Oct 2010
Geographic Focus:Ireland
URL:http://www.esri.ie/publications/search_for_a_publication/search_results/view/index.xml?id=3140
ISBN:978 1 905785 89 6
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‘Unkind Cuts’: Health Policy and Practice versus the Health and Emotional Well-Being of Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Ireland

Healthcare is the keystone of a number of complex progressive social justice issues that evoke complex emotions. As the demography of Ireland rapidly changes, the practices and expectations of some asylum-seekers and others seeking refugee status present new opportunities and challenges for health-service providers. This paper looks at some of the emotions evoked in healthcare issues. It draws on observations … Read More

Author(s):Katy Radford
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Online
Publication Date:25 Jun 2010
Geographic Focus:Ireland
URL:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13691831003643348
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Contexts of Exit in the Migration of Russian Speakers from the Baltic Countries to Ireland

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Abstract: Recently, Ireland has become a major destination for migrants from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Many of these migrants are members of Russian-speaking minorities leaving a context of restrictive citizenship and language laws and varying degrees of ethnic tension. This article draws on interviews collected in Ireland to examine the role played by the contexts of exit in decisions to … Read More

Author(s):Sofya Aptekar
Publisher:SAGE Journals
Publication Date:01 Dec 2009
Geographic Focus:Estonia, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania
URL:http://etn.sagepub.com/content/9/4/507.short
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Mobilising Capitals? Migrant Children’s Negotiation of their Everyday Lives at School

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This paper considers how first‐generation immigrant children contribute to processes of capital accumulation through their negotiation and positioning in Irish schools. Drawing on the concepts of social and cultural capital, as well as inter‐generational analyses of children’s role in the structuring of everyday life, the paper highlights migrant children’s strategic orientation to their primary schooling, positioning themselves in order to … Read More

Author(s):Dympna Devine
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Online
Publication Date:25 Aug 2009
Geographic Focus:Ireland
URL:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01425690903101023#.UZOPVrWG1i4
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What Do We Know About Large Scale Immigration and Irish Schools?

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This paper reports findings from the ESRI study ‘Adapting to Diversity’, which aims to provide national level data on how immigrants are distributed across Irish schools and on their levels of knowledge of English. The study points to demographic trends and residential segregation, school characteristics, parental choice of schools and school admission policies as factors that contribute to the placement … Read More

Author(s):Emer Smyth, Merike Darmody, Frances McGinnity and Delma Byrne (ESRI)
Publisher:Economic and Social Research Institute
Publication Date:02 Jul 2009
Geographic Focus:Ireland
URL:https://www.esri.ie/publications/latest_publications/view/index.xml?id=2810
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Adapting to Diversity: Irish Schools and Newcomer Students

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In the 1990s, Ireland saw immigration of a scale and speed unprecedented in comparative context. Immigration posed challenges for schools with little prior experience of dealing with cultural diversity. This is the first national study of school provision for newcomer (immigrant) students. It draws on a survey of 1,200 primary and second-level schools as well as detailed case-studies of twelve … Read More

Author(s):Emer Smyth, Merike Darmody, Frances McGinnity and Delma Byrne (ESRI)
Publisher:Economic and Social Research Institute
Publication Date:03 Jun 2009
Geographic Focus:Ireland
ISBN:9780707002828
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