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Irish Child Health Database - Peer Reviewed Papers

Database Search

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.

EMIGRATION & immigration

Your search returns 5 documents

• 1.   A Boy from Ireland

  Book Review: A Boy from Ireland

  

  Abstract:

  The article reviews the book "A Boy from Ireland," by Marie Raphael. more...

  Geography:

  Republic of Ireland

  Multicultural Review, Vol: 17 Page: 85-86 2008 Summer2008
  Lyn Miller-Lachmann

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• 2.   Demographic Modernity in Ireland: A Cultural Analysis of Citizenship, Migration, and Fertility

  The aim of this study was to examine the changing demographic and related cultural conditions corresponding with the referendum concerning citizenship by birth through three interrelated yet analytically distinguishable strands:

  

  Abstract:

  In June 2004 citizens in Ireland voted on a constitutional referendum which proposed to change the rules about the constitutional entitlement to citizenship by birth. The proposed change and subsequent vote in favor of the referendum generated a variety of commentary and scholarship. While factors of political economy and a racialized discourse regarding immigration are central to more...

  International Classification:

  Other - cross-cultural conditions

  Categories:

  cultural condition; citizenship

  Geography:

  Republic of Ireland

  Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Europe (JSAE), Vol: 8 Page: 5-17 2008
  Veerendra Lele

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• 3.   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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• 4.   Nationals/non-nationals: immigration, citizenship and politics in the Republic of Ireland

  This article discusses immigration, the Irish 2004 Referendum and issues of citizenship

  

  Abstract:

  The most significant event in the politics of immigration in the Republic of Ireland has been the 2004 Referendum that removed 'jus soli' constitutional rights to citizenship from Irish born children of immigrants. Constitutional definitions of Irishness narrowed at a time when the composition of Irish society had broadened significantly through immigration. The Referendum coincided more...

  Geography:

  Republic of Ireland

  Ethnic & Racial Studies, Vol: 30 Page: 439-460 2007
  Bryan Fanning; Fidele Mutwarasibo

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• 5.   Welcome to the Celtic Tiger? Teacher responses to immigration and increasing ethnic diversity in Irish schools

  This study describes findings from a study of teachers of the experience of ethnic diversity in a selected sample of primary and post-primary schools

  

  Abstract:

  This article presents findings of a study of the experience of ethnic diversity in a selected sample of primary and post-primary schools. Much of the research in the area of ethnicity and schooling is conducted in countries with a long tradition of immigration. The rapidity of social change in Ireland at a time of unprecedented economic growth is such that many schools, while still more...

  International Classification:

  Ethnic

  Categories:

  experience of ethnic diversity

  Geography:

  Republic of Ireland

  International Studies in Sociology of Education, Vol: 15 Page: 49-70 2005
  Dympna Devine

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