Race and Equality: Research, Studies, Reports
Recent Submissions
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Laying in the Dark: The Literary Night in Nineteenth-Century American Prose
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2020)This thesis examines nineteenth-century American prose via the lens of night studies, to demonstrate how the literary night was used to construct and challenge issues of gender and race in the United States. It focuses ... -
Migration, mothering and schooling: a case study of Baltic mothers in Ireland
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Sociology, 2020)This thesis explores the parental involvement of Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian mothers within and outside of formal schooling in Ireland. The number of Baltic families has significantly increased in Ireland in the last ... -
The Alberta Liquor Control Board and the Question of Administrative Independence, 1924-1939
(2016)This article discusses administrative independence by using Alberta’s first attempt at creating a Liquor Control Board as a case study. The article examines the relationships between the Board, the government, and the ... -
Sex, Race, and Motel Guests: Another Look at King v Barclay
(2017)The 1961 case of King v Barclay is something of a footnote in the history of discrimination against Black Canadians. If it is cited at all, it is usually cited alongside the more famous racism cases, such as Christie v ... -
Conducting Longitudinal Research Among Adult Refugees
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The affordances of virtual exchange for developing global competence and active citizenship in content-based language learning
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Linguistic Speech & Comm Sci. C.L.C.S., 2020)In times characterised by constant technological growth and increased mobility of people and ideas within complex societies across the globe, initiatives such as virtual exchange can be seen as attempts to cross global ... -
Essays in Economic History
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2020)This dissertation addresses questions in the areas of economic history and economics of migration. It consists of introduction, literature review, three empirical research chapters on Irish Migration to the United States ... -
Culturally Relevant Pedagogy and Multi-Belief Learning: Exploring Students’ Experiences of and Perspectives on the Family Project in the GMGY Curriculum.
(Marino Institute of Education, 2019-06)Irish classrooms are increasingly diverse in terms of cultures, languages, ethnicities and religions. Educators can engage with meaningful and relevant cultural elements from their students’ lives, and this can increase ... -
Exploring the capacity of human rights based actions in cultivating intercultural values in the Irish primary school.
As Ireland’s population continues to become more diverse, it is essential that we analyse the policies adopted to help encourage harmony in our society. This is especially pertinent for our schools which mirror this ... -
An investigation into the role of a Childrens’ Rights Education program in a diverse, urban, DEIS school, focusing on an Intercultural perspective. Is it a good fit? An action-research and self-reflective study.
This study investigates the ‘fit’ of a Childrens’ Rights Education program, in a diverse, urban, designated disadvantaged (DEIS) school. The program in this study is ‘Making Rights Real’ which was distributed to all ... -
The Impact of the Implementation of the Yellow Flag Programme on teachers and students in a Multicultural Primary School
(Marino Institute of Education, 2019-06)Taking into account Ireland’s changing demographics, this study critically explores the impact of the implementation of an intercultural education programme on teachers and students in a multicultural primary school. There ... -
Challenges facing multi-grade teachers supporting children with SEN
(2019-05)Background: Given the nationwide prevalence of multi-grade classrooms and the international trend towards inclusion education, limited research has been conducted in relation to children with Special Educational Needs (SEN) ... -
A Critical Examination of Standardised Testing of Minority Language Children
(Marino Institute of Education, 2017-06)In this dissertation I critically examined the performances of children who had English as an additional language (EAL) on standardized tests and compared their performances to the performances of their peers who had ... -
What are the challenges for Early Childhood Education and Care practitioners when educating and caring for children who are living in Direct Provision?
(2019-06)The importance of the role of the Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) practitioner in the life of the child is understood and acknowledged (Hayes, O'Toole and Halpenny, 2017). This study focused on discovering the ... -
Using Behavioral Science to help fight the Coronavirus
(2020-03-29)This rapid, narrative review summarizes useful evidence from behavioral science for fighting the COVID-19 outbreak. We undertook an extensive, multi-disciplinary literature search covering five issues: handwashing, face ... -
Discourse and Hegemony : Race and Class in the Language of Charity in Nineteenth-Century Dublin
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The Aryan Myth : A Nineteenth-Century Anglo-Irish Will to Power
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All Welcome Here? Studies on Anti-Immigration Attitudes and Discriminatory Behaviour towards Ethnic Minorities in Irish and European Contexts
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Sociology, 2020)The main aim of this thesis is to examine prejudice, via anti-immigration sentiment, and discriminatory behaviour in Ireland and other European countries. The thesis consists of four separate papers which constitute four ... -
Missing Links: The Somatechnics of Decolonisation
(Linköping University Electronic Press Workshop and Conference Collection, 2013)