Team Leader
Dr. Caitríona Ní Laoire
Dr. Caitríona Ní Laoire Marie Curie Excellence Research Fellow Tel. +353-214904357 |
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Profile
Dr. Caitríona Ní Laoire is Research Fellow and Team Leader on the Migrant Children team. She joined UCC and the Department of Geography in 2003, and directed the all-island Narratives of Migration and Return research project during 2003-2005, which involved collecting life narratives of Ireland 's recent return migrants. Prior to that, she was Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Institute for Regional and Spatial Analysis at NUI Maynooth, during which she conducted research on young farmers, identities and change in rural Ireland . Caitríona completed a PhD on Irish rural youth migration at the University of Liverpool in 1997, and after that she lectured in Edge Hill College ( Lancashire ) and in Queens University Belfast. Her research interests lie in the areas of Irish migration, childhood/youth, return migration, rurality, gender, identities and masculinities.
Current research
Caitríona's current research explores the experiences and identity processes of children who move to Ireland with their return migrant parent(s), focusing in particular on family and peer dynamics, negotiations of inclusion/exclusion and identities, and on relationships with place. This is set within the context of intergenerational relations within families, in particular child-parent relations, and involves the use of children-centred research methods.More information on Caitriona's publications and conference presentations can be viewed below (or in a pdf document by clicking here):
Selected recent conference papers
Ní Laoire, C. (2008) ‘Return migration and narratives of innocent Irish childhoods,' Childhood and Migration: Interdisciplinary Conference, Drexel University , Philadelphia , USA , 20-22 June 2008
Ní Laoire, C. (2008) ‘Homecomers or newcomers? Social competence and negotiations of belonging among children of the Irish diaspora,' Conference of Irish Geographers, University of Liverpool , May 2008
Ní Laoire, C. (2008) ‘Negotiations of identity and belonging among children of Irish return migrants,' Conference, Children and Migration: identities, mobilities, belonging, Cork, April 9-11 th 2008
Ní Laoire, C. (2007) ‘Life narratives, life-course transitions and return migration', Panel on ‘Life Narratives as Sources for Understanding Social Change in Ireland : History and Future Potential', Sociology Association of Ireland Annual Conference, Limerick , 11-12 th May 2007
Ní Laoire, C. (2007) ‘Irish return migration: complicating host newcomer dualisms', Invited presentation, Trinity Immigration Fair, Dublin , 24 th Sept 2007
Selected Publications
Ní Laoire (2008) ‘Complicating host-newcomer dualisms: Irish return migrants as home-comers or newcomers?, Translocations: Migration and Social Change 4(1): 35-50
Ní Laoire, C. (2008) ‘Settling back'? A biographical and life-course perspective on Ireland 's recent return migration,' Irish Geography , 41:2, pp. 195-210
Ní Laoire, C. (2007) To name or not to name: reflections on the use of anonymity in an oral archive of migrant life narratives, Social and Cultural Geography 8(3): 373-393
Ní Laoire, C. (2007) The ‘green green grass of home'? Return migration to rural Ireland , Journal of Rural Studies 23, 332-344
Royle, S. A. and Ní Laoire, C . (2006) 'Dare the boist'rous main': The role of the Belfast News Letter in the process of emigration from Ulster to North America , 1760-1800, The Canadian Geographer/Le Géographe Canadien , 50(1), p56
Ní Laoire, C. and Fielding, S. (2006) “Rooted and routed masculinities among the rural youth of North Cork and Upper Swaledale,” in Country Boys: Masculinity and Rural Life, Bell , M and Campbell , H. (eds) Penn State Press
Linehan, D. and Ní Laoire, C . (2006) Country report. Overlapping territories: social and cultural geography in Ireland , Social and Cultural Geography 7(1)
Ní Laoire, C. (2005) “‘You're not a man at all!' Masculinity, responsibility, and staying on the land in contemporary Ireland ,” Irish Journal of Sociology 14(2): 94-114
Kelly, C. and Ní Laoire , C. (2005) “(Re)presenting multiple Irish heritages: a case-study of the Ulster American folk park”, Irish Geography , 38(1): 72-83
Ní Laoire, C. (2004) “Winners and Losers? Rural restructuring, economic status and masculine identities among young farmers in south-west Ireland ”, in Geographies of Rural Cultures and Societies , L. Holloway and M. Kneafsey, Ashgate Press
Ní Laoire, C. and Shelton , N. (2003) "'Contracted out': some implications of the casualisation of academic labour in Geography", Area 35(1), pp 1475-4762
Ní Laoire, C. (2002) "Discourses of nation among migrants from Northern Ireland : Irishness, Britishness and the spaces in-between", Scottish Geographical Journal 118(3), pp 183-200
Ní Laoire, C. (2002) "Young farmers, masculinities and change in rural Ireland ", Irish Geography 35(1), pp16-27
Ní Laoire, C. (2001) "A matter of life and death?: men, masculinities and staying 'behind' in rural Ireland ", Sociologia Ruralis 41(2), pp220-236
Ní Laoire, C. (2000) "Conceptualising Irish rural youth migration: a biographical approach", International Journal of Population Geography 6, pp229-243