Race and Equality (Special Research Collection): Recent submissions
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Return migration and integration : a comparison of Italian returnees from Argentina and Europe
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 2014)Italy has a long history of outward migration, from the I9th century through to the 1970s. In recent decades this has been reversed with a strong pattern of return migration emerging. This thesis examines and compares the ... -
The role of the state in migration control
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Law, 2015)The basic premise that states have an absolute discretion to control migration across their territorial borders has become ossified to such an extent as to render its questioning controversial. Yet the more one delves into ... -
Illusion and disillusion in a development organisation
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 2015)This thesis focuses on a development donor organisation in the Republic of Ireland which embarked upon a project to become a learning organisation with a team from Trinity College Dublin. This thesis explores an area that ... -
Multilingualism in Dublin
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The development of Irish refugee policy through the prism of the state's foreign policy objectives, 1935 - 1973
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2015)This dissertation asserts that refugee policy was utilised throughout the mid-twentieth century by the Irish government in order to facilitate the successful pursuit of its foreign policy objectives. The period in question, ... -
Behind their eyes : identity in the work of Li-Young Lee and Suji Kwock Kim
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2014)The introduction to this study outlines the theoretical framework for comparing the work of Li-Young Lee and Suji Kwock Kim. Using Walter Mignolo's theories about "border thinking," which he outlined in Local Histories/Global ... -
Moral equality, war, and defence of the community : a critque and reconceptualisation of moral equality
(Irish School of Ecumenics, 2015)This thesis focuses on Michael Walzer’s argument for the moral equality of soldiers and aims to reconceptualise moral equality. This concept explains why it is not a crime when soldiers kill each other during a war. In ... -
Pilot framework for educational provision for minority linguistic groups including asylum seekers and refugees. Volume III: Further education
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How can socially-situated practices help adult migrant language learners in Ireland make meaning of their lived experiences and forge stronger English language identities? : a narrative inquiry
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2015)This thesis examines the post-migratory lived language learning and socialization experiences of adult migrant learners of English who are members of an intercultural drop-in centre in Ireland. It proposes the use of ... -
To Arms! : colonial authors and the fiction of invasion 1890-1914
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2014)In 1909 P. G. Wodehouse penned a comic novella The Swoop! which saw Britain saved from the simultaneous invasion of nine foreign armies by a boy scout named Clarence Chugwater. Wodehouse’s ludicrous plot, which featured ... -
New boundaries of justice in a world in motion : assessing the impact of global citizens in the Irish District Court
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2011)Although empirical research lends little support for the perceived immigration- crime nexus, it is an enduring perception. This thesis considers the impact of immigration on the Irish criminal courts. Ireland experienced ... -
Transition: from Direct Provision to life in the community
(Irish Refugee Council, 2016)This research report highlights the multiple challenges faced by former asylum seekers in Ireland as they attempt to make the transition from Direct Provision to life in the wider community. Based on interviews with 22 ... -
Undocumented migrants and the hegemonic ideology of the system of territorial states : a critical analysis of ideological contention in Irish Christians' moral imagination
(Irish School of Ecumenics, 2013)States respond punitively to those who cross their borders without authorisation. Consequently the human rights of undocumented migrants, often including the right to life itself, are systemically denied them. Every year, ... -
Good enough to eat : a study of cannibalism in literature and film in the twentieth century
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2010)This thesis is an examination of the cannibal figure in 19th and 20th century literature and film. The cannibal transgresses boundaries of normality and morality and is thus considered Other. As a transgressor of boundaries, ... -
Gaelicisation and identity in the 'four obedient shires' of Ireland, 1399-1534
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2011)This thesis examines gaelicisation in the ‘four obedient shires’ of the English colony in Ireland from 1399-1543. This region was thought of by contemporaries, and subsequently has been treated by historians, as the most ... -
Complexity, post-coloniality, transculturality : the birth of Wole Soyinka's Yoruba tragedy in Nigeria and its intercultural presentation in Britain
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2013)In 1986, Wole Soyinka made history when he became the first African ever to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Soyinka is a Yoruba man from western Nigeria and he began to write seriously and professionally in 1959 less ... -
Humanisation, generativity and acculturation in the secondary school : a guidance and counselling perspective
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Education, 2013)The primary goal of this study is to investigate how relevant a pedagogical and counselling approach inspired by the work of Paulo Freire is to the experiences and understandings of the young people who attend a secondary ...
