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Rachel HoareAssistant ProfessorDirector of Centre for Migration Studies

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Peer-Reviewed Publications

  • Hoare, R. (2023) 'I was lost in my life and they helped me find my way agin': Befriendee and befriender experiences of the Spirasi Befriending Programme for Survivors of Torture in Ireland.  Torture Journal (in press).
  • Hoare, R. (2022) ‘Friends as Family: Using composite psychotherapy case material to explore the importance of friendships for unaccompanied adolescent refugees coping with the challenges of resettlement in Ireland’.  Journal of Refugee Studies, 35 (3), 1160-1185. 
  • Hoare, R. (2022) ‘Using composite case material to develop trauma-informed psychoeducation for social care workers looking after unaccompanied minors in residential care in Ireland’.  Health and Social Care in the Community, 2022-00:1-12. 
  • Hoare, R. (2022) ‘Adolescences Disrupted in Displacement: The Protective Effect of Friends as Proxy Family for Unaccompanied Adolescent Refugees Resettling in Ireland’.  In Ingrassia, M., and Benedetto, L. (eds.), Adolescences, IntechOpen, London.   
  • Hoare, R. (2022) ‘Anytime I need her she’s there with good ideas, she’s always there to listen to me’: befriendee and befriender experiences of the Spirasi befriending programme for survivors of torture in Ireland’.  Collaboration between Spirasi and Trinity College, Dublin (report of research funded by the Irish Research Council ‘New Foundations’ call).  
  • Hoare, R. (2020) From global phenomenon to framework for living: using the beautiful game creatively to provide therapeutic care for unaccompanied male adolescents seeking asylum in Ireland.  International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care, 16(4), 373-387. 
  • Hoare, R. (2020) Football as a coping and resiliency tool for separated children seeking asylum in Ireland.  Inside Out, 92 (3), 4-20. 
  • Hoare, R. (2019) ‘I can only be properly myself when I’m with her’: Early adolescent intro-ethnic immigrant group friendships as a safe space for identity exploration, negotiation and validation.  Childhood, 26(2), 202-220. 
  • 'Ireland to the Lebanon and back: a case study of the use of Child-Centred Play Therapy and parental psychoeducation to reduce the separation anxiety of a pre-school child during his father's military deployment,' The Irish Social Worker, Spring, 2016, p3-28 Journal Article, 2016
  • 'Neurobehavioural Disorder associated with prenatal Alcohol Exposure (ND-PAE),' Play Therapy Matters Irish Association for Play Therapy and Psychotherapy, 1, (15), 2015, p13 - 20 Journal Article, 2015 TARA - Full Text
  • 'Giving voice to the experiences of children of immigrants in Ireland: An exploratory study of language, identity and emotional well-being. in,' editor(s)Vera Regan, New Approaches to Multilingualism and Identity in Transnational Contexts, Oxford, Peter Lang, 2015, pp129 - 165, [Rachel Hoare] Book Chapter, 2015
  • 'Developing the proficient language learner: motivation, strategies, and the learning experience of Irish learners of French in a university setting,' Teanga, 22, 2007, p28 - 52 Journal Article, 2007
  • 'Language attitudes and perceptions of identity in Brittany,' Teanga, 20, 2004, p163 - 192 Journal Article, 2004
  • 'An Integrative Approach to Language and Attitudes in Brittany,' Journal of Sociolinguistics, 5, (1), 2001, p73 - 84 Journal Article, 2001
  • 'Attitudes and motivations of undergraduate learners of French: an integrative approach,' Revue Parole, 20, 2001, p235 - 262 Journal Article, 2001
  • 'The relationship between language and attitudes in Brittany: The attitudes and perceptions of young Bretons in,' editor(s)Steven McGill , Language and Marginality, Exeter, Elm Bank Publications, 2000, pp27 - 46, [Rachel Hoare] Book Chapter, 2000
  • 'Linguistic competence and regional identity in Brittany: attitudes and perceptions of identity,' Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 21, (4), 2000, p324 - 347 Journal Article, 2000
  • L'identité linguistique des jeunes en Bretagne, Brittany, Brud Emgleo, 2000, 1 - 80pp Book, 2000

Research Profile