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Social difference, migration and diversity

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Social Difference, Migration and Diversity


How can we best take account of and understand rapidly changing societal complexities? Addressing today’s societal challenges requires social scientific theories that can adequately grasp social complexity, from the rapid increase in complexity of global migrations and mobilities, the bordering/re-bordering of nation states, and the uneven impacts of environmental crises, to the complex power relations driving intersectional inequalities involving gender, class, race, age, dis/abilities and sexualities. 

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CODA: A Hidden Minority Amongst the Majority

Funded by the SFI/IRC Pathway Programme, the CODA project explores how hearing children of deaf adults (Codas) experience the courtesy stigma (or stigma-by-association) of their parents and the cultural resources they use to become agents of their own empowerment.

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We aim to share publications and other outputs addressing the themes of social difference, migration and diversity. Browse our featured publications below.

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Journal Article migration, integration, migrant children, refugee children 2023

Refugee and migrant children’s views of integration and belonging in school in Ireland – and the role of micro- and meso-level interactions

This article focuses on migrant children's experiences of belonging and integration within the Irish educational system. More details Read publication

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Journal Article care ethics, Ukrainian refugees, asylum seeker, differential treatment 2023

Unintended Consequences: Divisions of care within Ireland's response to Ukranian refugees and impacts on asylum seekers'

Based on mixed methods research, this article looks at Ireland’s response to Ukrainian refugees and the impacts on the position of asylum seekers in the international protection system. More details Read publication

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Journal Article Disability, fear of crime 2023

Disability, hostility and everyday geographies of un/safety

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Journal Article Migrants, migration, belonging, young people 2021

Urban home: young male migrants constructing home in the city

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Journal Article gender equality, higher education, policy implementation, Ireland, Athena SWAN 2023

What do the narratives tell us? Exploring the implementation of the Athena SWAN Ireland Charter

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Journal Article 2020

Invisible Migrants: A Micro-Ethnographic Account of Bodily Exhaustion amongst Migrant Manual Labourers Working the Graveyard Shift at the New Spitalfields Market in London

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