Migration, Identities and Diversity (MID)

Overview

The Migration, Identities and Diversity (MID) research unit has three main areas:

1) Migration and Mobility

The study of new forms of mobility in Europe, theorisations on migration and mobility, return migration, in- and outward migration to Ireland and migration to and within Europe (Daniel Faas, Elaine Moriarty, David Ralph)

2) Identities

Political, ethnic and racial identities, both on the level of the individual and the collective, and how they are shaped and reshaped in institutional settings and wider society in Ireland, Europe and globally (Daniel Faas, Elaine Moriarty, David Ralph)

3) Diversity and Integration

The socio-economic and socio-cultural integration of diverse groups of migrants in Ireland, Europe and globally with a particular focus on labour market and educational settings (Daniel Faas, Camilla Devitt)

MID members have published their research in high-impact international journals and were founders of the Trinity Immigration Initiative, Ireland's largest immigration research programme (€6m). They also received national and international grants from European Framework Programmes (FP6, H2020), NORFACE and the Irish Research Council. Several MID researchers are part of the university-wide interdisciplinary research theme Identities in Transformation, led by Prof Daniel Faas.