Immigrant Integration in Ireland

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Multicultural Ireland: Immigrant Integration

Thursday, 21st November 2019, 6:30pm to 8:00pm

Location: Wynn's Hotel, Lower Abbey Street, Dublin 1

                               Mary Gilmartin   Paul Rouse

 

Speakers were Professor Mary Gilmartin of Maynooth University and Dr Paul Rouse of University College Dublin.

Professor Gilmartin discussed immigrant integration in contemporary Ireland. The talk focused on the three key aspects of immigrant integration: integration policies, integration processes, and integration outcomes.

She also reported on the findings of two recent research projects: the first considered how we could develop better integration policies in Ireland using a human rights approach. The second looked at how we define and assess immigrant integration outcomes in Ireland; the barriers to successful immigrant integration; and the implications of this for future planning and policy development.

Click here to see her slides.

Click here to see the report: Immigrant Integration and Settlement Services in Ireland by Professor Mary Gilmartin and Dr. Jennifer Dagg.

Click here to see the report: Developing Integaration Policy in the Public Sector: A Human Rights Approach by Dr. Cliodhna Murphy, Leanne Caulfield and Professor Mary Gilmartin.

Dr Rouse's talk looked at Multiculturalism and the GAA. He assessed the successes and failures of the GAA in inclusion and integration, examining the structures of the Association and how it operates in this area. He also gave a broader examination of the role of sport in integration.

  

Speaker bios 
Mary Gilmartin is Professor of Geography at Maynooth University, where she has worked for almost 12 years. She holds an undergraduate degree from UCD, and Masters and PhD degrees from the University of Kentucky. Her research focuses on migration and mobility, and her publications include two recent books: Ireland and migration in the twenty-first century (Manchester University Press, 2015) and  Borders, mobility and belonging in the era of Brexit and Trump (Policy Press, 2018, co-authored with Tricia Wood and Cian O'Callaghan). She has just completed two research projects on immigrant integration in Ireland, funded by the Irish Research Council and by IHREC.
 
Paul Rouse is Associate Professor of History at University College Dublin. His main research interest lies in the history of sport. He has written extensively on the history of Irish sport, but also on the global history of sport. His research also extends to popular culture, the history of the media, and the history of agriculture. He is the founding editor of historyhub.ie, UCD's public history site (http://historyhub.ie). Most recently, he appeared on the three-part RTÉ history of hurling, 'The Game', and in a docudrama on Hugh Lane, ‘Citizen Lane’. He writes a weekly column for the Irish Examiner newspaper.
 

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Festschrift

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Festschrift (a writing feast) of Social Policy Discourse

Friday, 29th November 2019, 6pm to 7:30pm
Wynn's Hotel, Lower Abbey Street, Dublin
Registration (with tea/coffee) from 5.30pm

The Irish Social Policy Association and the School of Social Policy, Social Work and Social Justice, UCD are hosting a Festschrift (writing feast) to celebrate the writing of Dr Pauline Conroy who has contributed so much to academic scholarship for many decades. Pauline’s latest book is A Bit Different - Disability in Ireland, Orpen Press, 2018.

The evening will be chaired by Dr Maria Pierce and Dr Patricia Kennedy and contributors will include community activists, social commentators, researchers, academics and others including Therese Caherty, Tommy McKearney, Nuala Kelly and Patrick McDonnell.

 

There is no charge for this event, however you are required to register, please email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

 

Pauline Conroy’s biography

A graduate in Social Science from UCD and the London School of Economics, Pauline has undertaken research and published on gender, equality, disability, trafficking in children and labour market issues with the Council of Europe, the International Labour Organisation and the European Commission. Pauline has lectured in UCD, the Open Training College and the Open University, UK. In 1988 Pauline spent a year as a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, studying the place of women in homeworking and outworking in Italian clothing and textiles.

Pauline’s work with the Third European Programme against Poverty brought her to examine the potential for social and community development in the most abandoned and excluded areas of Europe.

Pauline spent four years with the Mental Health Review Tribunals where she met with patients detained in the closed areas of hospitals. For the last four years Pauline has been engaged in activity bringing her into regular contact with prisoners and their complaints. These reflect her interest in undeserved populations and the rights of people detained in closed spaces. This was initially sparked by social work placements under Dr Ivor Browne at St Loman’s Hospital and then in Boston State Psychiatric Hospital in the 1960s.

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Institutional Ireland

ispaThe Persistence of Institutional Ireland: A Question of Policy

Thursday, 21st February 2019, 6:30pm to 8:00pm

Location: Wynn's Hotel, Lower Abbey Street, Dublin 1

The ISPA seminar on Thursday February 21st featured three excellent presentations: Eoin O'Sullivan from Trinity College, Dublin, and Liam Thornton and Muireann Ni Raghallaigh of UCD

Presentations (click on speaker's name to access slides):

Eoin O’Sullivan – Trinity College Dublin on:
The use of Institutions, Past and Present (Asylums and Hospitals - Hotels, Hostels and Hubs)

Liam Thornton – University College Dublin on:
The Governance of Direct Provision: Between Rights and Control

Muireann Ní Raghallaigh – University College Dublin on:
From hostels to foster families: Care Provision for Unaccompanied Minors

 

Further information: Muireann Ní Raghallaigh Lecturer in Social Work, School of Social Policy, Social Work and Social Justice, University College Dublin (see here). Eoin O'Sullivan Professor in Social Policy, School of Social Work and Social Policy, Trinity College Dublin (see here). Liam Thornton Lecturer in Law, Sutherland School of Law, University College Dublin (see here).

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Social Policy and the British-Irish Council

Seminar in Belfast on Friday July 6th, 2018:

Social Policy and the British-Irish Council

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The British-Irish Council, established as part of the Belfast Good Friday Agreement, is a forum for consultation and co-operation between eight member administrations: the UK, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Guernsey, Isle of Man, Jersey, Scotland and Wales (see www.britishirishcouncil.org). Among its areas of work are a range of topics relevant to social policy, including demography, early years, housing, misuse of substances, social inclusion and transport. This seminar aims to raise awareness of this work and to provide an opportunity for academics and practitioners to exchange views on the value and future potential of the British-Irish Council as a forum for the exchange of policy and practice, as well as the overall benefit of comparing and sharing social policies and practices between the eight jurisdictions.

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