The steep rise in the number of asylum seekers arriving in Ireland since the late 1990s has presented a novel set of challenges to the Republic’s nonprofit sector. Legal instruments and statutory policy that have developed ...

The liberalisation of the Irish taxi industry in 2000 coincided with the Irish State becoming a place of net immigration for the first time in its history (Ruhs, 2005). Over the following decade, Dublin's taxi fleet increased ...

Internationally attention is increasingly focused on how students fare after entry to college?on student experiences in relation to retention, completion and withdrawal.48 However while research is increasingly focused ...

In this thesis I use creative methodologies - a “new writing” (Denzin, 2003: 118) strategy - to explore body marking practices (‘self-injury’ and body modification) in the context of gendered embodiment. The overarching ...

This study employs critical race theory to understand, explain, and theorize the exclusion and racialization of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon. There exists vast and diverse literature on the exclusion of Palestinians in ...

To the extent that people believe that their own actions can bring about a valued outcome, they are said to have a ?sense of control?. This is a key factor in understanding why people act as they do. When individuals feel ...

Literature on immigration in Ireland has focused on analyses of rates and flows, the impact of labour migration, immigrants’ experiences of racism and integration, and asylum/refugee studies. Empirical work on the response ...

This thesis is an exploration of the relations between state and civil society actors involved in the local governance of youth crime and disorder in urban peripheral settings in Ireland. The dissertation aims to develop ...