Researcher Network
This page provides a list of other staff at TCD who are doing research in the area of immigration and migration.
- Catia Batista
- Michael Courtney
- Kevin Cunningham
- Daniel Faas
- Deana Heath
- Christiane Hellmanzik
- Elizabeth Nixon
- Nick McIlroy
- Sarah Smyth
- Gillian Wylie
Catia Batista, Department of Economics, Institute for International Integration Studies. Dr Bastisa's research lies in the intersection of economic growth and international economics. More specifically her work on migration has been mostly done in two fronts: in one of the projects a tailored household survey in a West African country (Cape Verde) was conducted and they analyzed the consequences of migration to origin countries. The focus in particular was on human capital gains from emigration and return migration, very much related to the 'brain drain vs. brain gain' debate; the second research project is related to migration within Europe, where she examines determinants of migration when it becomes fully liberalized in the context of the EU - these determinants include not only the usual macro factors (such as income and unemployment differentials, or income ineqaality), but also micro characteristics of the (potential) migrants. Click here to email Dr Bastisa.
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Michael Courtney is a PhD student in the Department of Policital Science in Trinity College Dublin. His PhD topic is on the political behaviour of elected immigrants in Europe. Click here to email Michael Courtney. Click here to view Michael's Research Design.
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Kevin Cunningham is a first year PhD candidate in Political Sciences researching immigation through the Support and Opposition to Migration project which examines the politicaisation of migration and the impact of the support of the far right political parties. Click here to email Kevin.
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Daniel Faas, Department of Sociology. Dr. Faas' research interests in the field of migration focus on responses to diversity primarily in education but also in related areas such as the labour market, national supranational migration and integrating policies, immigrant incorporation and social cohesion in Europe an dNorth America, as well as issues of citizenship, ethnicity and identity politics. Click here to email Dr Faas.
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Deana Heath, Department of History and Centre for Irish-Scottish Studies. The IRCHSS-funded 'Ireland, Empire and Education' research project aims to examine the part played by Irish universities and other institutions of higher education in shaping imperial, colonial and global processes between the 1850s and 1940s, which includes exploring the role of Irish economic and/or ideological migrants in professions such as medicine, law, engineering and religion. Website forthcoming. Click here to email Dr. Heath.
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Christiane Hellmanzik, Department of Economics (PhD Candidate). Christiane's work focuses on cultural economics and in particular, on career and mobility patterns of modern artists. Click here to email Christiane.
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Elizabeth Nixon, School of Psychology and Children's Research Centre and in collaboration with Prof. Sheila Greene, Children's Research Centre and Prof. Imelda Coyne, School of Nursing and Midwifery. Dr. Nixons research, Parental Ethnotheories among Immigrant and Irish Parents of Infants in Ireland, is funded by IRCHSS. The research is concerned with exploring "parental ethnotheories" or cultural models that
parents hold regarding children, families and themselves as parents, among immigrant and Irish parents of infants in Ireland, and to examine the relation of these cultural belief systems to parenting behaviours and
activities.
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Nick McIlroy, School of Business (PhD Candidate). Nick is researching migrant flows between Ireland the China, particularly in terms of immigrant networks and their impace on bilateral trade. Click here to email Nick.
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Sarah Smyth, Department of Russia and Slavonic Studies, TCD. Who in Ireland speaks and understands Russian? An investigation into cultural and linguistic diversity.This research will capture a snap-shot of the language repertoires, practices and attitudes of Russian speakers in the Republic of Ireland in the early part of the XXI century; it will also make present the voices of the participants through the collection of life stories and in round-table discussions. It will investigate the impact of migration on intergenerational transmission and on respondents’ identification with and participation in local and global networks and communities.
Principal Investigator: Sarah Smyth. Click here to email Sarah Smyth.
Web-page: http://www.tcd.ie/Russian/our-languages/
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Gillian Wylie, Peace Studies, Irish School of Ecumenics. Dr. Wylie's resesarch is on trafficking for sexual and labour exploitation in Ireland and internationally.
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