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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Judicial Europeanisation: The Case of Zambrano in Ireland

Abstract The Court of Justice of the European Union is an important motor of integration and is said to be particularly strong in those cases where the Council shows an inability to act. What is the relevance of the Court to social Europe? Europeanisation studies analyse how member states change due to European integration. Judicial Europeanisation is a topic that … Read More

Author(s):Susanne K. Schmidt
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Online
Publication Date:08 Jul 2014
Geographic Focus:null
URL:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01402382.2014.919775#.U9Z2y_ldU6U
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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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Immigration of International Students to the EU: Ireland

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Abstract This study provides an overview of the immigration policies that are being implemented regarding international students.  This report is particularly timely in Ireland, as it follows a period of significant policy activity around the provision of education to international students, with developments in relation to immigration, to monitoring and inspections of education providers, to a restructuring of bodies and … Read More

Author(s):Mairéad Finn, Philip J. O’Connell
Publisher:Economic and Social Research Institute
Publication Date:17 Aug 2012
Geographic Focus:Ireland
ISBN:978 0 7070 0 3429
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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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Transnational Migrants’ Negotiations of Formal and Cultural Citizenship

This article highlights the substantial role of Irish state governmentalities in structuring migrants’ ‘possible fields of action’ (Foucault 1982: 790), while taking account of the agency of migrant subjects, albeit constrained, in negotiating Irish immigration regulation. It is based on data gathered from eighteen migrant mothers of Irish citizens and argues that it is important to recognise the political agency … Read More

Author(s):Siobhán Ní Chatháin
Publisher:EBSCO Publishing
Publication Date:01 Nov 2011
Geographic Focus:Ireland
URL:http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/articles/74444061
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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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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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Emotional Ambiguity: Japanese Migrant Women in Mixed Families and their Life Transition

Through the narratives of Japanese migrant women in Ireland, this paper focuses on their perceptions of ‘home’ and their emotional processes in the context of their life transition. In order to explore the interactive and relational nature of their emotional processes, three questions are examined. How do migrant women manage their emotions in the process of constructing motherhood as their … Read More

Author(s):Naoko Maehara
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Online
Publication Date:25 Jun 2010
Geographic Focus:Ireland
URL:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13691831003643371
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Policies on Reception, Return and Integration arrangements for and numbers of Unaccompanied Minors – an EU comparative study: EMN Synthesis Report


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This EMN Synthesis Report summarises the main findings of national reports produced by twenty-two of the EMN National Contact Points (EMN NCPs) from Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom. In keeping with the EMN’s objectives, the purpose of this … Read More

Author(s):European Migration Network
Publisher:Directorate General Justice, Freedom and Security, European Commission
Publication Date:01 May 2010
Geographic Focus:European Union
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Family Support through Childcare Services: Meeting the Needs of Asylum-Seeking and Refugee Families

This article is a summary of the research carried out in relation to the experiences of asylum-seeking and refugee families regarding access and participation in local childcare services. Focus groups and interviews were carried out with 16 refugee and asylum-seeking parents, five childcare practitioners, and two support and development staff in a small, mainly rural county, in the northwest of … Read More

Author(s):Nicola Dolan and Catherine Sherlock
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Online
Publication Date:20 Apr 2010
Geographic Focus:Ireland
URL:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13575270903493382
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Social Capital in Community, Family and Work Lives of Brazilian Migrant Parents in Ireland

The paper examines a recent phenomenon of Brazilian migration to Ireland using social capital as a framework of analysis. The analysis specifically makes use of Portes and Sensenbrenner’s typology of social capital sources (1993; Portes, 1998): bounded solidarity, value introjection, reciprocity, and enforceable trust. The paper examines the processes and dynamics inhering within these sources of social capital to account … Read More

Author(s):Brian McGrath
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Online
Publication Date:01 Jan 2010
Geographic Focus:Ireland
URL:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13668800903192168
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Policies on Unaccompanied Minors in Ireland

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Abstract This report examines policies and provisions for unaccompanied minors in Ireland. The report provides an overview of the complex system of provision in the area and highlights presenting issues and gaps as well as instances of best practice. A potential conflict was identified between the unaccompanied minor as a protection applicant or person of otherwise undefined legal (immigration) status, … Read More

Author(s):Corona Joyce and Emma Quinn
Publisher:Economic and Social Research Institute
Publication Date:02 Sep 2009
Reference Period:01 Jan 2000 to 31 Dec 2008
Geographic Focus:Ireland
ISBN:9780707002873
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Invisible Pathways – how the Irish immigration system can contribute to people becoming undocumented


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The report examines the main processes of the immigration system that people may go through or may be required to go through. It does not consider the asylum system. Specifically, the report draws attention to issues with the system that can contribute to people becoming undocumented. Such issues may only contribute in a small way to someone becoming undocumented or … Read More

Author(s):Crosscare Migrant Project
Publisher:Crosscare Migrant Project
Publication Date:01 Feb 2009
Geographic Focus:Ireland
ISBN:978 1 906485 10 8
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‘Settling Back’? A Biographical and Life-Course Perspective on Ireland’s Recent Return Migration

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This paper uses a biographical and life-course perspective to explore some of the key narratives of return among return migrants to Ireland, focusing in particular on the themes of family, child-rearing, relationship breakdown and ‘settling down’. The ways in which return migrants use the concept of life-course transitions in order to make sense of and narrate their migration stories is … Read More

Author(s):Caitríona Ní Laoire
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Online
Publication Date:06 Jun 2008
Geographic Focus:Ireland
URL:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00750770802076968
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The Feminisation of Migration: Experiences and Opportunities in Ireland


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This report examines the particular role and impact of the contribution of women migrants in Ireland. It argues that there is a need for more genderbased analysis of migration to reveal specific gender-related policy issues that need to be addressed. By drawing on national and international data, and through interviews with women migrants in Ireland, this study shows that there … Read More

Author(s):Jane Pillinger
Publisher:Immigrant Council of Ireland
Publication Date:01 Nov 2007
Geographic Focus:Ireland
ISBN:9780954549664
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