MIGRANT CHILDREN PROJECT

Team Leader

Dr. Caitríona Ní Laoire

Strand D: Children and Return Migration: children and young people's experiences of moving to Ireland with their return migrant parents

Dr. Caitríona Ní Laoire joined the Department of Geography at UCC in 2003, having previously worked in NUI Maynooth, Queens University Belfast and Edge Hill College in Lancashire. She completed a PhD on Irish rural youth migration at the University of Liverpool in 1997. Her research interests lie in the areas of Irish migration, return migration, childhood/youth, rurality, gender and masculinities. She was a full-time researcher on the Narratives of Migration and Return project in UCC during 2003-2005, which involved collecting life narratives of Ireland’s recent return migrants. Previously she was a postdoctoral researcher at the National Institute for Regional and Spatial Analysis at NUI Maynooth, working on a two-year project entitled ‘Staying on the land in contemporary Ireland: young farmers and the social and cultural implications of rural restructuring’.  She is currently Team Leader on the four-year Migrant Children research project (2005-2009), funded by a Marie Curie Excellence Grant. She has particular responsibility for Strand D of the research, focusing on children of return migrants.

More information on Caitriona’s publications and conference presentations available here.