Voices of Young Migrant Men


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The study looked at the experiences of 40 men between the ages of 16 and 28 who were born outside of Europe and now live in Ireland. The men identified discrimination at school, in sport, at work and by public authorities as the main challenges they face. They were also concerned about being cut off from family and loved ones … Read More

Author(s):Péter Szlovák and Justyna Szewczyk
Publisher:Immigrant Council of Ireland
Publication Date:06 Jul 2015
Geographic Focus:Ireland
ISBN:978 0 9932840 0 7
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Stop Traffick! Tackling demand for sexual services of trafficked women and girls

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Abstract This study, funded under the European Commission’s Prevention and Fight against Crime (ISEC) initiative, has been carried out as part of the project ‘Stop Traffick: Tackling demand for sexual services of trafficked women and girls’. The research will inform strategies to reduce demand for the services of trafficked women and girls in the five participating countries (Cyprus, Finland, Ireland, … Read More

Author(s):Nusha Yonkova, Edward Keegan
Publisher:Immigrant Council of Ireland
Publication Date:27 Mar 2014
Geographic Focus:Europe, Ireland, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Cyprus, Finland
URL:http://www.stoptraffick.ie/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/STOP-TRAFFICK-full-report.pdf
ISBN:978 0 9570144 4 2
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The religio-cultural dimensions of life for young Muslim women in a small Irish town

Abstract Studies of young Western-born/raised Muslims show the multiple, complex and changing relationships they have with their religion, and what freedom and autonomy might mean in this context. Despite such evidence, popular and academic discourses of the emancipated and free female subject of neoliberal society eclipse such important themes for Muslim youth. Using qualitative evidence from a study of young … Read More

Author(s):Brian McGrath and Orla McGarry
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Online
Publication Date:30 Jan 2014
Geographic Focus:null
URL:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13676261.2013.878793#.UvC57_l_ti5
ISBN:null
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Multicultural Ireland? Muslim Women and Integration in Ireland

Abstract The question of multiculturalism in Northern Ireland (NI) and the Republic of Ireland (ROI) has come more to the fore in recent years with growing levels of plurality within these societies. Indeed, new debates are opening up regarding identity and citizenship, which undoubtedly are challenging traditional conceptions of identity, with consequences for integration. Yet despite public acknowledgement of minority … Read More

Author(s):Victoria Montgomery
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Online
Publication Date:10 Sep 2013
Geographic Focus:null
URL:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07907184.2013.823087?tab=permissions#tabModule
ISBN:null
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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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Enabling Equality: Migrant Women in Rural Ireland


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The purpose of this study is to explore the experiences and situation of migrant women at risk of poverty, social exclusion and discrimination in rural Ireland. This is with a view to identifying and developing strategies for their inclusion and progression at a local level. It is hoped that this study will be a practical and constructive basis for action in contributing to the promotion … Read More

Author(s):Migrant Rights Centre Ireland
Publisher:Migrant Rights Centre Ireland
Publication Date:01 Jun 2012
Geographic Focus:Ireland
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‘Girls just like to be friends with people’: gendered experiences of migration among children and youth in returning Irish migrant families

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Abstract The gendered nature of children and young people’s experiences of migration are explored in this paper, drawing on research with children in Irish return migrant families. The paper focuses on the ways in which gender dynamics both reinforce and complicate the children’s complex social positionings in Irish society. It explores the gendered nature of the children’s and young people’s … Read More

Author(s):Caitríona Ní Laoire
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Online
Publication Date:01 Nov 2011
Geographic Focus:null
URL:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14733285.2011.590713#.Ut1fJBDFKUk
ISBN:null
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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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‘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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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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Am Only Saying It Now: Experiences of Women Seeking Asylum in Ireland


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The average wait for an asylum, protection or leave to remain claim to be processed in Ireland is a minimum of two years, with some women waiting five years or more, during which time they and their families live in direct provision, having been dispersed to regional accommodation centres. Many women in direct provision accommodation are often times battling poor … Read More

Author(s):Salome Mbugua
Publisher:AkiDwa
Publication Date:01 Mar 2010
Geographic Focus:Ireland
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Globalisation, Sex Trafficking and Prostitution – the Experiences of Migrant Women in Ireland


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“Globalisation, Sex Trafficking and Prostitution – the Experiences of Migrant Women in Ireland” presents stark evidence of the trafficking of women and girls into and through Ireland for the purposes of sexual exploitation. It shines a light on the reality of large numbers of migrant women being sexually exploited in indoor prostitution in Ireland. Drawing on the experiences of these … Read More

Author(s):Kelleher Associates, Monica O'Connor and Jane Pillinger
Publisher:Immigrant Council of Ireland (in collaboration with the Women’s Health Project, HSE and Ruhama)
Publication Date:16 Apr 2009
Geographic Focus:Ireland
ISBN:9780954549688
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Immigration into the Republic of Ireland: A Bibliography of Recent Research

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Until relatively recently, research on migration to the Republic of Ireland has been limited to a handful of texts. As immigration into Ireland has increased over the last decade, so has the volume of published research exploring this phenomenon, with a significant increase in the number of published research reports, policy studies and submissions, conference proceedings, monographs, academic papers, book … Read More

Author(s):Piaras MacÉinrí and Allen White
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Online
Publication Date:06 Jun 2008
Geographic Focus:Ireland
URL:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00750770802076943
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Target Earning/Learning, Setting or Trampolining? Polish and Chinese Immigrants in Ireland

This article provides a theoretical and an empirical analysis of the migration patterns and experiences of Chinese and Polish migrants in order to understand the human geography of these movements and the qualitative parameters and dimensions of contemporary migration into Ireland. Using theories of transnationalism, I argue that there are three general types of immigrant transnational orientations in the interviewees … Read More

Author(s):Rebecca Chiyoko King O'Riain
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Online
Publication Date:06 Jun 2008
Geographic Focus:Ireland
URL:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00750770802076992
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The Earnings of Immigrants in Ireland: Results from the 2005 EU Survey of Income and Living Conditions

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This paper has three objectives. First, a review of the developing body of work on the economics of immigration in Ireland is provided. Second, the analysis undertaken by Barrett and McCarthy (2007) of earnings of immigrants in Ireland is updated. Third, the earnings of immigrant women are assessed to see if they experience a “double disadvantage”. Among other findings, the … Read More

Author(s):Alan Barrett (ESRI) and Yvonne McCarthy (Central Bank)
Publisher:Economic and Social Research Institute
Publication Date:20 Dec 2007
Geographic Focus:Ireland
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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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The Nature and Extent of Trafficking of Women into Ireland for the Purposes of Sexual Exploitation 2000 – 2006: A Report from Findings

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This report provides a baseline of cases of sex-trafficking into Ireland between the years 2000 – 2006. It concludes that for these years, the probable minimum number of such cases was 76. The vast majority of those cases occurred between 2003 and 2006 and the majority of women trafficked into Ireland were from Eastern Europe. The second largest grouping came … Read More

Author(s):Éilís Ward and Gillian Wiley
Publisher:NUI, Galway
Publication Date:01 Sep 2007
Geographic Focus:Ireland
URL:http://www.nuigalway.ie/ssrc/documents/The%20Nature%20and%20Extent%20of%20Trafficking%20of%20Women%20into%20Ireland%20for%20the%20Purposes%20of%20Sexual%20Exploitation%20(2000-2006)%20-%202007.pdf
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Black African Women in the Irish Labour Market

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This study explores the experiences of migrant African women in Ireland accessing and participating in the labour market. This small scale study conducted on behalf of AkiDwA – the African Womenʼs Network – shows that while migrant African women tend to be highly educated, they are often over-qualified for the jobs they can access. The study shows that many migrant … Read More

Author(s):Florence M. Hegarty
Publisher:AkiDwa
Publication Date:01 Mar 2007
Geographic Focus:Ireland
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Migrants’ Experience of Racism and Discrimination in Ireland

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This study reports the results of a survey conducted in Summer 2005 to assess the prevalence and degree of discrimination reported by recent migrants. The survey measures perceived discrimination in a range of different situations in the workplace, in public places, in shops/restaurants, in commercial transactions and in contact with institutions. The sample covers work permit holders and asylum seekers, … Read More

Author(s):Frances McGinnity, Philip J. O'Connell, Emma Quinn and James Williams (ESRI)
Publisher:Economic and Social Research Institute
Publication Date:07 Nov 2006
Geographic Focus:Ireland
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