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Postdoctoral Researchers
Dr Naomi Bushin
Dr. Naomi Bushin Postdoctoral Researcher |
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Naomi Bushin graduated from the University of Wales, Swansea with a BA (2002) in and a PhD (2005) in research interests include children’s experiences of family migration, children’s participation in migration decision-making, family migration to rural areas ‘for the sake of the children’, migrant children’s social networks and experiences of schooling. Her current project explores the migration and integration experiences of children who have moved to Ireland from eastern and central European countries.
More information on Naomi’s publications and conference presentations available here.
Dr. Fina Carpena-Mendez
Strand C - Latin American and Asian Migrant Children
Dr. Fina Carpena-Mendez Postdoctoral Researcher |
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Fina Carpena-Mendez obtained her PhD in Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. Her interests lie at the border between childhood and youth studies and globalization and transmigration processes. Her dissertation explored the effects of economic restructuring on new migrant-sending communities in Puebla (Mexico) and the emergent transnationalisation of Mexican youth gangs. Her work analyzed the reorganization of the experiences of children and youth in indigenous communities recently affected by accelerated processes of transnational migration to New York and Philadelphia by exploring the contradictions and negotiations in everyday life, the relationships between generations and the formation of youth subjectivities. She has been a visiting research fellow at the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies and the Center for US-Mexican Studies at the University of California, San Diego during the academic year 2005-2006. Dr. Carpena-Mendez joined the Marie-Curie Migrant Children Project at University College Cork for comparative research on Latin American children's experiences of transnational migration into Ireland.
More information on Fina’s publications and conference presentations available here.
Dr. Allen White
Strand A: African/Irish Childhoods: asylum, refuge and living in Ireland
Dr Allen White |
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I received a BA from University College Dublin in 1991, and 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 will explore 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, group interviews and observations.
More information on Allen’s publications and conference presentations available here.
