Dissertations Completed
in the areas of Race, Migration and Decoloniality

MA Race, Migration and Decolonial Studies
School of Sociology University College Dublin
Ilaria Bessone, Strange Encounters with “Victims of Trafficking”: How Italian Women Employed in the Civic Sector Meet Migrant Women in Order to Help Them, 2011
Dewi Brinkhuis, The Negotiation of the Diasporics of Identity: Transracial International Adoptees in the Dutch Discourse of Belonging, 2014
Franz Gustav Buhr, Feeling/Filling the Distances: Ways of Seeing Diaspora in Everyday Life, 2012
Saima Butt, Praxis of Solidarity: Narrative Journeys Through Decolonization, 2016
Jose Caceres, Between Feeling and Perception in the Motherland: The Construction of the Venezuelan Migrant Identity in Spain, 2011
Kate Dearden, (In)Visible Multiculturalism on Dublin’s Moore Street, 2014
Jana Finke, Refugees and Locals Under One Roof: Intersecting Borders At Home, 2016
Christiana Fizet, Discursively Excused: Erasing the State’s Complicity in Racism in Ireland Through Public Discourse, 2011
Nare Galstyan, The Contemporary Diasporic Model and Migrant Organizations: The Case Study of Armenians in the Netherlands, 2011
Natalia Gontsova, Ideology Legitimation Strategies of Nationalistic Parties in Russian, 2013
Cedric Gutz, International Lifestyle Migration in Berlin, 2014
Dalinda Pena Habib, Securing ‘first-world’ citizenship: The Role of Capital in Planned Transnational Births by Mexican Parents in the United States, 2015
Cristine Khan, Locating the “Jahaji”: Negotiating Indo-Caribbean Identifications in South Richmond Hill, 2016
Irene Leonardelli, Roots and Routes on the European Border-Space: A People-Centred Study on Place-Making and Race-Making in a Sicilian Sea Village, 2015
M Reveillex E. Lim, Bittersweet Survival: Economic Reintegration Realities of Filipino Return Migrants, 2013
Maritza Loaza, Human Rights and Development-Induced Displacement: The Case of Colombians in Costa Rica, 2012
Gabriela Simões Mathias, From Japantown to Chinatown? Negotiating Place in a Multiethnic Neighbourhood in Brazil, 2016
Viktoriia Mudrak, Transnational families and Distant Parenthood, An Example of Ukrainian Migrant Mothers’ and Fathers’ Parental Strategies, 2012
Marina Pislaru, The Economics of Colour: Inside China s Racialized ESL Market, 2016
Al Amin Rabby, The Struggle for Education Among Rohingya Refugees of Myanmar Living in Bangladesh, 2015
Laura Roberts, The Impact of Structural and Practical Mechanisms on the Diffusion of Power Among Migrant Communities: The Case of the Multicultural Health Brokers Cooperative, 2011
Dilnoza Saratova, Identity Born in Violence: The Case of Uzbek Youth in Kyrgyzstan, 2011
Agne Stankeviciute, Inter-ethnic Couples in Lithuania Dealing with Racialisation and Ethnic Intolerance, 2012
Tirza Snoijl, Mopping the Floor with the Tap Still Running’: A Critical Case Study on Structural Ethno-Racial Inequality and Dutch Homelessness Policy, 2015
Manon Tiessien, An Expedition into the White Lowlands: Whiteness, Multiculturalism and Color-blind Ideology (Ethnic Identity Construction Among Native Dutch), 2011
Eva Gracia Turgeon, From Roots to Routes: Locating Montreal Multilingual Youth within Quebec Hegenomic Discourse, 2016
Jolijn van der Ploeg, The Dutch Are Coming Back” Exploring the Impact of Gentrification on Local Social Cohesion in an Ethnically Diverse Neighborhood in Amsterdam, 2015
Sanda Vantoni, The Impact of the Family on Moroccan Return Migration, 2016