Migrant Children Project Publications
Book ( in preparation)
Ní Laoire, C., Bushin, N., Carpena-Méndez, F., White, A. Childhood and Migration in Europe: portraits from 21 st century Ireland (more information to follow)
Journal Articles
White, A., Bushin, N., Carpena-Méndez, F., Ní Laoire, C. (in press) Using visual methodologies to explore contemporary Irish childhoods, Qualitative Research
White, A. and Bushin, N. (in press) More than methods: learning from researching with children in the Irish asylum system, Population, Space and Place
Bushin, N. and White, A. (forthcoming) Emplacement and trans-locality in the lives of migrant teenagers (more information to follow)
Bushin, N. and White, A. (in press) Migration politics in Ireland : exploring the impacts on young people's Geographies, Area
Bushin, N., Carpena-Méndez, F., Ní Laoire, C., White, A. Childhood and migration: mobilities, homes and belongings (more information to follow)
Ní Laoire, C. Narratives of ‘innocent Irish childhoods': return migration and intergenerational family dynamics (more information to follow)
White, A., Ní Laoire, C., Bushin, N., Carpena-Méndez, F. Children's roles in transnational migration (more information to follow)
Other Recent Publications by Team Members
Bushin, N. (forthcoming) ‘Children's agency in family migration decision-making in the UK ', in C. Coe and R. Reynolds (eds) Everyday Ruptures: Children in Migration
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): 451-7
Bushin, N. (2008) ‘Interviewing children in their homes: developing flexible techniques and putting ethical principles into practice', in L. van Blerk & M. Kesby (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): 235-251
Carpena-Méndez, F. Children's life-worlds in new Mexican sending areas: work, school, remittances, coyotes (more information to follow)
Carpena-Méndez, F. (2007) “'Our lives are like a sock inside-out': children's work and youth identity in neoliberal rural Mexico ”, in Panelli, R., S. Punch and E. Robson (eds), Global Perspectives on Rural Childhood and Youth: Young Rural Lives. London : Routledge
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): 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): 373-390
Ní Laoire, C. (2007) The ‘green green grass of home'? Return migration to rural Ireland , Journal of Rural Studies 23: 332-344
Mac Éinrí, P. and White, A. (2008) ‘Immigration into the Republic of Ireland : a bibliography of recent research', Irish Geography 41(2): 151 -179.
White, A. and Gilmartin, M. (2008) ‘Critical geographies of belonging and citizenship in Ireland ', Womens' Studies International Forum 31: 390-399
Gilmartin, M. and White, A. (2008) Revisiting contemporary Irish migration: new geographies of mobility and belonging, Irish Geography 41(2), 143–149
Research Reports and Working Papers
Bushin, N. (2009) Nasc's Research Design Frameworks and Ethical Protocol , Cork : Nasc
Ní Laoire, C., Bushin, N., White, A. and Carpena-Méndez, F. (2008) ‘Negotiating belonging: migrant children in Ireland ', MCMCP Working Paper 1
White, A. and Bushin, N. (2007) ‘Immigrant Children in Cork City : A Report' , for Nasc and Cork City Childcare Company
Migrant Children Project Presentations
Presentations 2009
White, A. and Bushin, N. ‘ ‘…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, Conference of Irish Geographers, Cork , May 2009
White, A., Ní Laoire, C., Bushin, N., Carpena-Méndez, F. ‘ Children and migration: challenging the adult-centrism of migration studies,' Re-making Migration Theory Conference, Brighton , May 2009
Presentations 2008
Bushin, N. ‘Researching Family Migration Decision-Making: A Children-in-Families Approach', invited presentation, Wenner Gren Anthropological Foundation Children and Migration Workshop, January 2008, New York City
Bushin, N. 'Here, there and everywhere: multi-locality and multi-belonging in the lives of migrant teenagers', Children and Migration: Identities, Mobilities and Belongings Conference, UCC, April 2008
Bushin, N. '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 , June 2008
Bushin, N. "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
Carpena-Méndez, F. ‘Development, new migrant sending communities, and transnational Nahua youths', Invited lecture in the Globalization Series at the Department of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA. February 2008.
Carpena-Méndez, F. ‘Development, Migration, and the Reconfiguration of Children's Lifeworlds', Children and Migration Conference, University College Cork, April 2008
Ní Laoire, C. ‘From emigration to immigration: coping with mobilities in Ireland ', invited presentation, Who is Afraid of Mobility? Cultural consequences of migration and mobility, EUNIC/Europalia Conference, Brussels , 23 rd January 2008
Ní Laoire, C., Bushin, N., Carpena-Méndez, F., White, A. ‘ Migrant Children Project: Researching Children's Experiences of Migrating to and Living in Ireland ', poster presentation, Researching Children's Worlds Conference, Galway , February 2008
Ní Laoire, C., Bushin, N., Carpena-Méndez, F., White, A. ‘ Migrant Children Project: Researching Children's Experiences of Migrating to and Living in Ireland ', poster presentation, Children and Migration: identities, mobilities, belongings, Conference, Cork , April 9-11 th 2008
Ní Laoire, C. ‘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. ‘Negotiations of identity and belonging among children of Irish return migrants,' Children and Migration: identities, mobilities, belonging conference, Cork , April 9-11 th 2008
Ní Laoire, C. ‘Return migration and narratives of innocent Irish childhoods,' Childhood and Migration: Interdisciplinary Conference, Drexel University , Philadelphia , USA , 20-22 June 2008
Ní Laoire, C., Bushin, N., Carpena-Méndez, F., White, A. ‘ Negotiating belonging: Migrant children and youth in Ireland ,' Youth and Cultural Policies: a Transnational Perspective, 13 th International Metropolis Conference, Bonn , October 2008
Ní Laoire, C. (2008) Research with migrant children: some methodological considerations, Transnational Families, Children and the Migration-Development Nexus Workshop, Amsterdam , December 2008
White, A. “When it is Wednesday I am happy”: Childhoods within an Irish asylum centre, Children and Migration: Identities, Mobilities and Belongings, UCC, Cork , 9 th -11 th April 2008
White, A. Spatiality and childhood within an Irish asylum dispersal centre, Conference of Irish Geographers, University of Liverpool, 9-11 th May 2008
White, A. and Bushin, N. '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
Presentations 2007
Bushin, N. ‘Counterurbanisation: for the sake of the children?,' Conference of Irish Geographers, May 2007, St. Patrick's College, Dublin , Ireland
Bushin, N. ‘Going with the family flow: children and family migration' Royal Geographical Society/ Institute of British Geographers Annual Conference September 2007, London , UK
Bushin, N. ‘ Moving to Ireland : young people's experiences,' Invited presentation, Trinity Migration Fair, September 2007, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Bushin, N. ‘Moving to Ireland: young people's experiences', invited seminar, Department of Political Science and Sociology, November 2007, National University of Ireland, Galway
Carpena-Méndez, F. ‘Economic restructuring, new migrant-sending communities, and emergent forms of transnational life,' Paper presented in invited panel ‘The Border is Everywhere: new spaces and actors in transnational migration,' Latin American Studies Association annual meeting, Montreal , September 2007
Ní Laoire, C. ‘Life narratives, life-course transitions and return migration', Invited presentation, 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. ‘Irish return migration: complicating host newcomer dualisms', Invited presentation, Trinity Immigration Fair, Dublin , 24 th Sept 2007
White, A., Ní Laoire, C., Bushin, N. and Carpena-Méndez, F. (2007) ‘Exploring the experiences of migrant children in Ireland ', Conference of Irish Geographers, St. Patricks College , DCU, Drumcondra, Dublin , 11-13 May 2007.
White, A. (2007) ‘ Mixing methods: research with children in the asylum system, ' Invited presentation, Trinity Immigration Fair, Dublin , 24 th Sept 2007