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 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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Family Reunification of Third-Country Nationals in the EU plus Norway: National Practices: EMN Inform


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This Inform presents a brief overview of the EMN Synthesis study on Family Reunification of Third-Country Nationals in the EU plus Norway: National Practices. Key points to note: As one of the main avenues for legal migration to the EU, family reunification accounts for approximately a third of all arrivals of Third-Country Nationals (TCNs). Member States usually extend the scope … 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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Annual Policy Report on Migration and Asylum 2015: Ireland


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The Annual Policy Report on Migration and Asylum 2015 provides an overview of trends, policy developments and significant debates in the area of asylum and migration during 2015 in Ireland.  Some important developments in 2015 included:- The Report of the Working Group on Improvements to the Protection Process, including direct provision and supports to asylum seekers (McMahon Report) was published. … Read More

Author(s):Anne Sheridan and Susan Whelan
Publisher:Economic and Social Research Institute
Publication Date:28 Nov 2016
Geographic Focus:Ireland
ISBN:978-0-7070-0417-4
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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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Applicable fees for issuance of residence permits to third-country nationals: EMN Inform


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This EMN Inform provides an overview of the applicable fees for issuance of residence permits to third-country nationals (TCNs) as of September 2014. It is based on information collected from 24 EU Member States and Norway. The Inform particularly examines fees under a number of EU Directives, which are outlined in Section 4. Please note that Denmark, Ireland and the … Read More

Author(s):European Migration Network
Publisher:Directorate General Home Affairs, European Commission
Publication Date:31 Oct 2014
Geographic Focus:Europe
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Case Law of the Court of Justice of the European Union relating to legal migration and national developments: EMN Inform


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This EMN Inform provides information on EU and national case law on the interpretation and application of legal instruments within the legal migration EU acquis. For the purpose of this EMN Inform these are: Directive 2003/109/EC concerning the status of third-country nationals who are long-term residents; Directive 2003/86/EC on the right to family reunification; In addition, one example of case … Read More

Author(s):European Migration Network
Publisher:Directorate General Home Affairs, European Commission
Publication Date:31 Oct 2014
Geographic Focus:Europe
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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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Fatherhood and Transmission in the Context of Migration: An Irish and a Polish Case

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  Abstract The article compares men’s biographies and fatherhood across two generations among the Irish and the Polish, who represent different waves of migration to Britain, focusing on two chains of fathers and sons. It examines different aspects of transmission between fathers and sons and, in the context of migration, the part that generational experience played in how men identify … Read More

Author(s):Julia Brannen, Ann Mooney, Valerie Wigfall and Violetta Parutis
Publisher:John Wiley and Sons
Publication Date:08 Mar 2013
Geographic Focus:null
URL:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/imig.12067/abstract
ISBN:null
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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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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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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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Child Poverty as Public Policy: Direct Provision and Asylum Seeker Children in the Republic of Ireland

This paper evaluates responses to asylum seeker children in Ireland from a child poverty perspective and from that of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. It draws upon research undertaken in early 2001 on behalf of the Irish Refugee Council among asylum seeker families with children in Cork, Limerick and Ennis on their experiences of poverty … Read More

Author(s):Bryan Fanning and Angela Veale
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Online
Publication Date:01 Jan 2004
Geographic Focus:Ireland
URL:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1357527042000244374
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