Profiling barriers to social inclusion in Ireland: the relative roles of individual characteristics and location

The study uses data from participants in the Department of Rural and Community Development’s Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme (SICAP), administered by Pobal, to examine who is most likely to experience at least one of five barriers to social inclusion. The barriers are:- (a) belonging to a jobless household, (b) being a lone parent, (c) having a disability, (d) … Read More

Author(s):Seamus McGuinness, Adele Whelan, Adele Bergin, Judith Delaney
Publisher:Economic and Social Research Institute
Publication Date:25 Jul 2018
Geographic Focus:Ireland
URL:http://www.esri.ie/pubs/RS71.pdf
ISBN:978-0-7070-0445-7
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Love thy neighbour? Exploring prejudice against ethnic minority groups in a divided society: the case of Northern Ireland

Abstract  Northern Ireland has seen a rise in racially motivated crimes and incidents reported to police in recent years and, although this has been accompanied by intensified media coverage, this phenomenon has been the subject of relatively little research. The purpose of this study is to evaluate empirically three theories that have been proposed to explain prejudice towards ethnic minorities … Read More

Author(s):Rebecca McKee
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Online
Publication Date:23 Sep 2015
URL:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369183X.2015.1081055
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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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In From the Margins – Roma in Ireland: Addressing the Structural Discrimination of the Roma Community in Ireland


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In From the Margins – Roma in Ireland: Addressing the Structural Discrimination of the Roma Community in Ireland is a comprehensive and groundbreaking examination of the discrimination the Roma community experiences living in Ireland.  The findings in the report are based on over two years of legal case work with members of the Roma community in Cork, as well as focus … Read More

Author(s):Nasc, The Irish Immigrant Support Centre
Publisher:Nasc
Publication Date:28 May 2013
Geographic Focus:Ireland
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The hijab in the (denominational) Irish education system – tolerated or accepted?

Abstract Abstract This paper explores the subtexts of the controversy generated by the hijab in Irish schools and, more  specifically, what these reveal about the Irish education system’s level of acceptance of (religious)  diversity, as assessed on a spectrum of non-toleration, toleration and respect-recognition. Using  a critical discourse analysis approach, the study highlights and examines the main argumentative  strategies through … Read More

Author(s):Nathalie Rougier
Publisher:Umeå School of Education, Umeå University, Sweden
Publication Date:01 Mar 2013
Geographic Focus:null
URL:http://www.education-inquiry.net/index.php/edui/article/view/22066
ISBN:null
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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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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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Immigrants in Irish Politics: African and East European Candidates in the 2009 Local Government Elections

High levels of immigration to Ireland have left an impact on the economy and society, but arguably less of an impact on politics. Though immigration has been an issue in party politics and the subject of a controversial referendum, the immigrants themselves have had little direct impact on parties or the political system. This article treats the immigrant as the … Read More

Author(s):Bryan Fanning and Neil O'Boyle
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Online
Publication Date:06 Aug 2010
Geographic Focus:Ireland
URL:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07907184.2010.497641#.UZO0HLWG1i4
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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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Naming the ‘Other’: Children’s Construction and Experience of Racism in Irish Primary Schools

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This paper considers the construction and experience of racisms among a sample of primary school children in Ireland during a period of intensive immigration. Placing children’s voices at the centre of the analysis, it explores how children’s constructions draw upon discourses of ‘norm’ and ‘other’ in relation to national identity and cultural belonging. Constructions of minority ethnic groups are located … Read More

Author(s):Dympna Devine, Mairin Kenny and Eileen Macneela
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Online
Publication Date:24 Nov 2008
Geographic Focus:Ireland
URL:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13613320802478879
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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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Welcome to the Celtic Tiger? Teacher Responses to Immigration and Increasing Ethnic Diversity in Irish Schools

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Much of the research in the area of ethnicity and schooling is conducted in countries with a long tradition of immigration. The rapidity of social change in Ireland at a time of unprecedented economic growth is such that many schools, while still ‘mainly white’, are grappling with the particular challenges that are posed by new patterns of immigration. How these … Read More

Author(s):Dympna Devine
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Online
Publication Date:19 Dec 2006
Geographic Focus:Ireland
URL:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09620210500200131#.UZORp7WG1i4
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Older Irish Migrants Living in London: Identity, Loss and Return.

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More than a quarter of a million people left Ireland for Britain in the 1940s and 1950s. The literature on the Irish experience in Britain reveals high levels of social deprivation and poor health, some of which has been attributed to prejudice and discrimination, the legacy of a colonial relationship. Other commentators have suggested the more interwoven complexities for Irish … Read More

Author(s):Gerard Leavey, Sati Sembhi and Gill Livingston
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Online
Publication Date:17 Jun 2006
Geographic Focus:London
URL:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13691830410001699603
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Refugees and Social Policy

This article provides a description and analysis of current social policy regarding refugees, an overview of its historical development and a discussion of current and future issues in the field. The book Contemporary Irish Social Policy is intended especially as a textbook for students of social policy, it is also a basic reference book for anyone wishing to gain an … Read More

Author(s):Joe Moran
Publisher:UCD Press
Publication Date:19 Apr 2005
Geographic Focus:Ireland
URL:http://www.ucdpress.ie/display.asp?K=9781904558309&aub=Suzanne%20Quin&m=1&dc=5
ISBN:1904558305
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