Postdoctoral Researcher
Dr Naomi Bushin
Dr. Naomi Bushin Postdoctoral Researcher |
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Profile
Naomi gained her first degree and PhD in Geography from Swansea University , Wales . Her PhD explored the notion that families migrate to the countryside ‘for the sake of the children' and included analysis of statistics on child and family migration in the UK, as well as primary qualitative material. At Swansea University she contributed to Level One courses on population geography, Level Two courses on research methods and gave dissertation advice to undergraduates researching children's geographies. At UCC Naomi is a Research Fellow on the Marie Curie Excellence Grant Migrant Children Project. She also jointly coordinates the GG5010 Research Methods Module of the MA in Contemporary Migration and Diaspora Studies. Her current research interests include: migration studies, geographies of children and youth, children's rights, social transformations and the ‘post-productivist' countryside .
Current Research ProjectNaomi joined the Geography Department at UCC in April 2006 as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow funded by a Marie Curie Excellence Grant. This three-and-a-half year project focuses on migrant children's experiences of Ireland and has four strands. Naomi's strand explores the experiences of children who migrate to Ireland , with their families, from countries in eastern and central Europe . Please see the Marie Curie Migrant Children Project website for further information.
Additional Research Grants
Royal Irish Academy Mobility Grant, 2008, Visiting Research Fellow, Geography Department, University of Stockholm, €1195, ‘'To Stay or not to Stay?' A8 Migrant Worker Families' Intentions to Leave or Remain in Ireland and Sweden '.
Royal Geographical Society Pump-Priming Grant (with Dr Heaven Crawley & Dr Larch Maxey, Swansea University), 2008, ‘Children and Global Change: Experiencing Migration, Negotiating Identities', £5000
IRCHSS Norface Networking Grant (Marie Curie Migrant Children Team), 2008, €2000
HERA Networking Grant (Marie Curie Migrant Children Team with Dr Irina Schmitt, Lund University & Dr. Vincenzo Cicchelli, Université René Descartes), 2008, €2000
Additional Qualifications:
2007: Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, UCC
Teaching
Joint Module Coordinator, GG5010 Research Methods, MA in Contemporary Migration and Diaspora Studies
Postgraduate Supervision
Joni Kirwan: ‘Ageing and Place: Urban Transformation and Growing Old in Contemporary Ireland' – co-supervisor with Denis Linehan
Dissertation Supervisor, MA in Contemporary Migration and Diaspora Studies
Other Professional Roles
Conference Officer – Geographies of Children, Youth and Families Working Group, Royal Geographical Society , UK.
Conference Officer - Population Geography Research Group, Royal Geographical Society , UK.
Coordinator - UCC's 'Researching witih Children Discussion Group'
Board Member of Nasc - The Irish Immigrant Support Centre.
Professional Affiliations
Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers
Member of Association of Irish Geographers
More information on Naomi's publications and conference presentations can be viewed below (or in a pdf document by clicking here ):
Selected Publications:
Bushin, N. and White, A. (in press) Migration Politics in Ireland : Exploring the Impacts on Young People's Geographies, Area
White, A., Bushin, N., Carpena-Mendez, J. and Ní Laoire, C. (in press) ‘Mixing Methods in Research with Children' Qualitative Research
Bushin, N. (2009) ‘Researching Family Migration Decision-Making: A Children in Families Approach', Population, Space and Place (online early)
Bushin, N. (2008) ‘Quantitative Datasets and Children's Geographies: Examples and Reflections from Migration Research', Viewpoints, Children's Geographies , 6 (4) pp. 451-7
Bushin, N. (2008) ‘Interviewing Children in their Homes: Developing Flexible Techniques and Putting Ethical Principles into Practice', in van Blerk, L. and Kesby, M. (eds) Doing Children's Geographies: Methodological Issues in Research with Young People, Routledge, Taylor & Francis, pp. 9-25
Bushin, N. , Ansell, N., Adriansen, H., Laateenma, J. & Panelli, R. (2007) ‘Further conceptualising context and identity in young rural lives' in E. Robson, S. Punch & R. Panelli (eds) ‘ Global Perspectives on Rural Childhood and Youth' , London; New York: Routledge, pp. 69-81
Bushin, N. (2007) ‘Interviewing Children in their Homes: Developing Flexible Techniques and Putting Ethical Principles into Practice', Children's Geographies, 5 (3) pp.235-351
Bushin, N. (2005) Review of Alderson, P. & Morrow, V. ‘Ethics, social research and consulting with children and young people', Children's Geographies 3 (2) pp.267-8
Forthcoming Publications:
Ní Laoire, C., Bushin, N. , White, A., & Carpena-Mendez, J. (forthcoming) Moving Stories: Four Portraits of Childhood and Migration in the 21 st Century (more details to follow shortly)
White, A. and Bushin, N. (forthcoming) ‘More-Than-Methods: Learning from Research with Children in the Irish Asylum System', (more details to follow shortly)
Bushin, N. (forthcoming) ‘From East to West: Children's Experiences of Family Migration in the New Europe' in Ní Laoire, C.,
Bushin, N. , White, A., & Carpena-Mendez, J. (eds) Moving Stories: Four Portraits of Childhood and Migration in the 21 st Century (more details to follow shortly)
Bushin, N. (forthcoming) ‘Children's Agency in Family Migration Decision-Making in the UK ', in C. Coe & R. Reynolds (eds) Everyday Ruptures: Children and Migration
Ní Laoire, C., Carpena-Mendez, J., Bushin, N. , & White, A. (forthcoming) ‘Special Issue Editorial: Children and Migration: Identities, Home and Belongings', (papers from Cork 2008 conference, more details to follow shortly)
White, A., Ní Laoire, C., Bushin, N. & Carpena-Mendez, J. (forthcoming) ‘Special Issue Editorial: Children and Migration', Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (papers from Cork 2008 conference, more details to follow shortly)
Research Reports:
Bushin, N. (2009) Nasc's Research Design Frameworks and Ethical Protocol , Cork : Nasc
Ní Laoire, C., Bushin, N., White, A. & Carpena-Mendez, J. (2008) ‘Negotiating Belonging: Migrant Children in Ireland ' , MCMCP Working Paper 1
White, A. & Bushin, N. (2007) ‘Immigrant Children in Cork City : A Report' , for Nasc and Cork City Childcare Company
Invited Papers
Bushin, N. ‘Researching Family Migration Decision-Making: A Children-in-Families Approach', Wenner Gren Anthropological Foundation Children and Migration Workshop, January 2008, New York City
Bushin, N. ‘Moving to Ireland : young people's experiences', Department of Political Science and Sociology, November 2007, National University of Ireland, Galway
Bushin, N. ‘ Moving to Ireland : young people's experiences,' Trinity Migration Initiative Migration Fair, September 2007, Trinity College Dublin
Selected Conference Presentations
August 2009: ‘‘Of course, I'm not Irish': migrant young people and social integration at the local scale in Ireland ', RGS/IBG, Manchester
August 2009: ‘Mobility, Translocality and Belonging: Migrant Teenagers' Negotiations of Urban Spaces', RGS/IBG, Manchester (with Allen White)
July 2009: ‘From East to West and Back Again? Exploring Migrant Young People's Migration Trajectories in an Enlarged Europe', Second International Conference on Geographies of Children, Youth and Families, Universitat de Barcelona
May 2009: ‘‘…I'm African but I'm also Irish because I have lived here and grown up here more': Young migrants in Ireland negotiations of identity'' ‘Hidden Geographies of Ireland Sessions' Conference of Irish Geographers, UCC (with Allen White)
May 2009: Co-convenor ‘Hidden Geographies of Ireland Sessions, Conference of Irish Geographers, UCC
May 2009: ‘Children's Roles in Transnational Migration', Rethinking Migration Theory Conference, University of Brighton with the University of Sussex (with Caitriona Ní Laoire and Allen White)
October 2008: ‘Negotiating belonging: Migrant children and youth in Ireland ' 13 th International Metropolis Conference, Bonn , Germany (with Caitriona Ní Laoire, Allen White and Fina Carpena-Mendez)
August 2008: "If we'd asked them they'd have said 'No!": Children's Involvement in Family Migration Decision-Making', 'Rethinking Family Migration' Sessions, RGS/IBG, London (Co-convenor)
August 2008: 'Silences and Hushed Voices: Children seeking asylum in the Republic of Ireland ', RGS/IBG, 'Too much too young? Children's Experiences of Asylum Seeking' Sessions, RGS/IBG, London , August 2008 (with Allen White)
June 2008: '2B Or Not To Be, That Is The Question: EU Accession State Migrant Youth Intentions to Leave or Remain In Ireland ', Children and Migration Interdisciplinary Conference, Drexel University , Philadelphia
April 2008: 'Here, there and everywhere: multi-locality and multi-belonging in the lives of migrant teenagers', Children and Migration: Identities, Mobilities and Belongings Conference, UCC
September 2007: 'Going with the family flow: children and family migration' RGS/IBG, London
May 2007: 'Counterurbanisation: for the sake of the children?,' Conference of Irish Geographers, St. Patricks College , Dublin
September 2006: Co-Convenor of ‘Geographies of Age' sessions, Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers Annual Conference , London
June 2006: ‘Living the Dream? Young Migrants' Experiences of Rurality', 3rd International Conference of Population Geographers, University of Liverpool
September 2005: ‘‘Should we stay or should we go?' The Impacts of Family Migration to Rural Areas', Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers Annual Conference, London
September 2005: Discussion Paper: ‘Child Migrants' Identities and Contexts', Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers Annual Conference, London
June 2005: ‘Changing Places, Changing Faces: Child Migration in Britain ', Children's Geographies Conference, Brunel University
March 2005: ‘We're moving…now what?' The Processes of Family Migration', 1st European Population Geographies Conference, Swansea University
September 2004: ‘For the sake of the children? Dependent Youth Migration to Contemporary Rural England ' (Poster), British Society for Population Studies Annual Conference, University of Leicester
August 2004: ‘Migration and the Marginalised: Children's Involvement in the Decision to Migrate', 2nd International Conference on Population Geography, University of St. Andrews
August 2004: ‘For the sake of the children? Children's Experiences of Migration', International Conference of Children's Geographies, University of St. Andrews