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How to use this database.

• Method 1- uses a free natural language approach.

  After choosing the object of the search – by ticking title, abstract, aims and objective, or author - enter a term, word or name in the ‘Search’ box to return references answering your research question.

• Method 2 - utilises key words.

  Those key words assigned from thesauruses of controlled vocabulary by the trained coders of international bibliographic databases.
  The controlled vocabularies key word are listed alphanumerically under 'Bibliographic database keywords' .
  Use the drop down menu to identity which 'key words' you are interested in to return references to answer your research question.

• Method 3 - is based on the indexing system

  developed by the researchers who compiled this database.
  It adopts a thematic approach to mapping Irish child health research. The themed areas represent outcomes mapped to the International Classification of Disease version 10 (ICD-10) or one of 23 other health-related themed outcomes. Themes are defined in Tables 5 to 7 (of the study report).
  Use the alphabetic drop down menu under ‘ICD-10 or themed health-related outcomes’ to identity which themed areas you are interested in to select references to answer your research question.

• Method 4 – allows papers to be searched by Study type.

  Indexing by study type offers a valuable insight into understanding the population impact of the topic of interest. More than 20 study types were identified across the 2,152 study papers. These are defined in Table 3 (of the study report). Within 'Study type' papers are further stratification by geographical region (Table 49), topic area of interest and study aims and objectives.
  Click on 'Study type' to select the type of study of interest, progressively select sub-categories by topic area or other sub-classification of interest to answer your research question.

The complete background, methods and findings from this mapping exercise are detailed in the study report.

GROUP identity

Your search returns 5 documents

• 1.   An Investigation into How Chinese Children in Northern Ireland Deal with Ethnic Difference

  This study aimed to explore the ways that the Chinese children deal with the problem of ethnic background and cultural difference in their practical, local context

  

  Abstract:

  In the present study, I have but a modest aim. Here I shall turn attention to the practices of identity construction of ethnic minority children, as a legitimate topic of interest in sociology, cultural studies and cultural psychology, by looking at the ethnographic case of school children of Mainland China origin in Northern Ireland. My aim is to document the ways that the Chinese more...

  International Classification:

  Anthropology or ethnographic-racial and cultural adaptive mechanisms

  Categories:

  ethnic background; cultural difference;

  Geography:

  Northern Ireland

  Conference Papers -- American Sociological Association, 2003/08/16/2003 Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA
  bing Feng

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• 2.   I Just Don't Want to Get Picked on by Anybody: Dynamics of Inclusion and Exclusion in a Newly Multi-Ethnic Irish Primary School

  This article discusses the factors related to ethnic and gender identity mediate children's interaction with one another in a newly multi-ethnic Irish primary school

  

  Abstract:

  Given the changing patterns of immigration in the Republic of Ireland in the past 10 years, this article considers how factors related to ethnic and gender identity mediate children's interaction with one another in a newly multi-ethnic Irish primary school. Central to the analysis is the exercise of power between children and how the experience of inclusion and exclusion in peer more...

  Geography:

  Republic of Ireland

  Children & Society, Vol: 20 Page: 128-139 2006
  Dympna Devine; Mary Kelly

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• 3.   Locality Matters: Ethnic Segregation and Community Conflict the Experience of Protestant Girls in Belfast

  This case report discusses the significance of locality and of girls experience of sectarian residential segregation and community conflict in Belfast

  

  Abstract:

  Research continues to illustrate the resonance and intensity of feeling that attachment to a locality can generate, within this highlighting the gender-specific impacts created by the intersection of ethnicity and locality. Within the ethnically segregated working class communities of Belfast, the importance of locality takes on added significance. By focusing on a case study of more...

  International Classification:

  Other - Community-segration and conflict

  Categories:

  sectarian residential segregation

  Geography:

  Northern Ireland

  Children & Society, Vol: 20 Page: 105-115 2006
  Julie Healy

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• 4.   Naming the 'other': children's construction and experience of racisms in Irish primary schools

  This study describes the construction and experience of racisms among a sample of primary school children in Ireland during a period of intensive immigration

  

  Abstract:

  This paper considers the construction and experience of racisms among a sample of primary school children in Ireland during a period of intensive immigration. Placing children's voices at the centre of the analysis, it explores how children's constructions draw upon discourses of 'norm' and 'other' in relation to national identity and cultural belonging. Constructions of minority ethnic more...

  International Classification:

  Ethnic

  Categories:

  experience of ethnic diversity

  Geography:

  Republic of Ireland

  Race, Ethnicity & Education, Vol: 11 Page: 369-385 2008
  Dympna Devine; Mairin Kenny; Eileen Macneela

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• 5.   Portrait of the 'absent' father: the impact of non-residency on developing and maintaining a fathering role

  This study reports on an exploratory study conducted with non-resident fathers, to elucidate the key issues affecting the development and maintenance of a fathering role after a relationship has ended

  

  Abstract:

  This paper reports on an exploratory study conducted with non-resident fathers, to elucidate the key issues affecting the development and maintenance of a fathering role after a relationship has ended. In particular, the paper focuses on the contingent nature of fatherhood for young marginalised men in Dublin. The extent to which fathers identify with a fathering role is explored and more...

  International Classification:

  Fathering roles

  Categories:

  the fathering role

  Geography:

  Republic of Ireland

  Irish Journal of Sociology, Vol: 14 Page: 134-154 2005
  Mary P. Corcoran

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