MIGRANT CHILDREN PROJECT
Postdoctoral Researcher
Dr. Allen White
Strand A: African/Irish Childhoods: asylum, refuge and living in Ireland
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I received a BA from University College Dublin in 1991, an MA in Geography from Univernsity College Cork in 1994 and a PhD from Nottingham Trent University in 2000. My research interests lie in international migration, citizenship, race and childhood studies. My doctoral research focused on asylum in the UK , and since then I have expanded my interests to include issues surrounding immigration into Ireland . These include geographies of social exclusion, racism and the debates surrounding citizenship rights of children born to non-national parents in Ireland . I have developed and managed a pilot research project exploring the socio-spatial worlds of refugee children in Nottingham , UK . Since May 2006 I have worked as part of the Migrant Children Project in the Department of Geography in University College Cork. This project explores the immigration, integration and exclusion of children in contemporary Ireland . My specific area of responsibility is to carry out research with the children of asylum seekers and refugees. This research will include a mixed portfolio of qualitative child-centered methods including photovoice, art, interviews and observations.
Journal (editorship):
with Mary Gilmartin (2008) Irish Geography – Special Issue on Migration 41(2).
More information on Allen's publications and conference presentations can be viewed below (or in a pdf document by clicking here):
Selected peer-reviewed publications
2008 Critical Geographies of citizenship and belonging in Ireland Women's Studies International Forum 31(5), 390-399 (with Mary Gilmartin)
2008 Editorial: Revisiting contemporary Irish migration: new geographies of mobility and belonging Journal of Irish Geography 41(2), 143 - 149 (with Mary Gilmartin)
2008 Immigration into the Republic of Ireland : a bibliography of recent research Journal of Irish Geography 41(2), 151 -179 (with Piaras Mac Einri)
2004 Reading the News: Representations of Asylum Seekers in British Newspapers” Journal of Geography in Higher Education. 89 pp. 150 – 165
2002 Geographies of asylum: legal knowledge and legal practices" Political Geography 21 pp. 1055 – 1073
Presentations
Invited seminars
May 2004 Asylum and Immigration Policy: Current and Future Trends Presentation to the Annual General Meeting of the Nottingham Refugee Forum.
February 2003 From Airforce to Asylum: Discourses of Detention. A Borderless Europe ? Asylum seeking in the 21st Century , University of Worcester
Selected Conference Presentations
2003 Legal Geographies of Citizenship in Ireland : Non-national parents and the Supreme Court Ruling 23 rd January 2003” Conference of Irish Geographers , Trinity College Dublin.
2003 Asylum Accomodation Centres and Community Responses” RGS/IBG Annual Conference , Royal Geographical Society, London .
2005 Legal Geographies of Asylum in Ireland Paper presented in absentia by session organiser, Association of American Geographers Annual Conference , Denver .
2007 Visualising Childhoods: using visual methods in research with school-children, Paper presented to the Conference of Irish Geographers, St Patricks Drumcondra
2007 Mixing Methods: Research with children in the Irish asylum system, Presentation to the Trinity Immigration Initiative: Migration Fair , Dublin , September.
2008 “When it is Wednesday I am happy”: Childhoods within an Irish asylum centre. Paper presentation to Childhood and Migration: Identities, Mobilities and Belongings , UCC Cork, April.
2008 Spatiality and childhood within an Irish asylum dispersal centre, Paper presented to the Conference of Irish Geographers , University of Liverpool , May.
2008, Silences and Hushed Voices: Children seeking asylum in the Republic of Ireland , Paper presented to the Royal Geographical Society/Institute of British Geographers Annual Conference , September.