Purpose - This paper examines the impact of social media (including social networking technologies) on migration strategies and integration, focusing on the use of new technologies for information seeking and dissemination, ...
O'Brien, Valerie(International Foster Care Association, 2009-07-12)
Contact or contact is seen as an integral part of foster care. It is generally seen as a key barometer of the state of relationships between all the parties involved. It is accepted that while there are rewards, albeit ...
This chapter considers from a republican perspective the legitimate conditions for naturalization. If citizenship is understood as membership in a self-governing community, some boundaries are justified. But citizenship ...
Purpose: This paper analyses the extent to which understanding IS and IR as disciplines characterised by intractable dilemmas is a useful conceptual framework through reviewing and re-evaluating an important contribution ...
Purpose -The paper explores the question of whether the differences between meaning in philosophy and meaning in information retrieval (IR) have implications for the use of philosophy in supporting research in IR.
Desig ...
The Irish experience of public service reform provides a unique case study of institutional change and resilience, and offers new perspectives on public service reform in “Anglo-Saxon” administrative systems. The data used ...
Garvin, Tom(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2009)
Dublin journalism was well served by three national newspapers and a coterie of
weeklies and irregular publications during the period 1948-1962. In this paper, the
different 'takes' on the perceived crisis in the Irish ...
Meehan, Elizabeth M.(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2009)
Since the EU is relevant to the Good Friday Agreement as a whole, the paper starts by touching upon how it both facilitated the Agreement and, yet, also hindered Strand 2 (North-South relations). Strand 3 (the British-Irish ...
Fanning, Bryan(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2009)
This paper emphasises how post-1950s Irish developmentalism fostered the economic,
social and political acceptance of large-scale immigration following EU enlargement
in 2004. It argues that economic imperatives alone ...
This paper outlines developments in participatory politics in Northern Ireland and draws some comparisons with Scotland. The section on Northern Ireland covers
traditions of civic activism which led to efforts to ensure ...