Dissertations Completed
in the areas of Race, Migration and Decoloniality

MA Race, Migration and Decolonial Studies
School of Sociology University College Dublin
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Miranda Arkwright, Nothing About Us Without Us: A Critical Visual Discourse Analysis of the Aest-ethics Entangled in the Artistic Representation of Refugees in the Eastern Mediterranean Since the Humanitarian Crisis of 2015, 2022
Jimmy Caoimhghín Billings, Temporal Displacement, Placeful Re-existence: Decolonising Ireland’s Relationship to Land Through Pre-Christian Ancestral Knowledge Systems, 2019
Andrea Bray, Anti-Racism Education in Irish Secondary Schools, 2022
Sara Ali Burdis, Racialisation of the Deserving and Undeserving: A Study of Irish Mass Media Coverage of Race and Class, 2021
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Ngozi Ekwui Elobuike, Foreign Gods: Exploring NFTs a Decolonial Tool for African Development Using a Design Thinking Approach, 2022
Elisabeth Keuten, Global Sisterhood Under Scrutiny: Decolonising the Notion of Sisterhood in White Development Practices in Southern Ethiopia, 2022
Barbara Narciso Jacyntho, Between the Borders: Dis/locating Mestiça Identities An Autoethnography, 2021
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Paula Martinez, A Critical Exploration of the Notion of Blackness in Ireland and Latin America and Its Effects on the Concept of Belonging: Through the Experiences of Afro-Brazilian [and/or Afro-Latino] and Black Irish Students, 2022
Nina-Ana Medan, Contentious Performance: Polarization and Intersectionality in the Sarah Everard Protests, 2022
Brigid Molly, Uncovering Western Media’s Representations of Sri Lankan Tamil Women’s Involvement in Nationalist Organisations from 1987 to 1992: A Historical Sociological Study, 2022
Annie Molloy, Solidarity in a Death-World: Exploring the Criminalisation of Search and Rescue in the Mediterranean Sea, 2021
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Chinedum Muotto, Me, Ourselves & Us: Love. Within. & Beyond. Black* Skin, 2019
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Sarah Rooney, Re-Existence: Growing in De/colonial Cracks, 2021
Dominic Murphy, The Right-Wing Media’s Portrayal and Journalistic Repair of BLM: Reconfiguring the Meaning of a Movement, 2022
Achille Tenkiang, A Journey Through My Wake, 2022
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2011 - 2016
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
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Dewi Brinkhuis, The Negotiation of the Diasporics of Identity: Transracial International Adoptees in the Dutch Discourse of Belonging, 2014
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Franz Gustav Buhr, Feeling/Filling the Distances: Ways of Seeing Diaspora in Everyday Life, 2012
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Saima Butt, Praxis of Solidarity: Narrative Journeys Through Decolonization, 2016
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Jose Caceres, Between Feeling and Perception in the Motherland: The Construction of the Venezuelan Migrant Identity in Spain, 2011
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Kate Dearden, (In)Visible Multiculturalism on Dublin’s Moore Street, 2014
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Jana Finke, Refugees and Locals Under One Roof: Intersecting Borders At Home, 2016
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Christiana Fizet, Discursively Excused: Erasing the State’s Complicity in Racism in Ireland Through Public Discourse, 2011
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Nare Galstyan, The Contemporary Diasporic Model and Migrant Organizations: The Case Study of Armenians in the Netherlands, 2011
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Natalia Gontsova, Ideology Legitimation Strategies of Nationalistic Parties in Russian, 2013
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Cedric Gutz, International Lifestyle Migration in Berlin, 2014
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Dalinda Pena Habib, Securing ‘first-world’ citizenship: The Role of Capital in Planned Transnational Births by Mexican Parents in the United States, 2015
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Cristine Khan, Locating the “Jahaji”: Negotiating Indo-Caribbean Identifications in South Richmond Hill, 2016
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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
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M Reveillex E. Lim, Bittersweet Survival: Economic Reintegration Realities of Filipino Return Migrants, 2013
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Maritza Loaza, Human Rights and Development-Induced Displacement: The Case of Colombians in Costa Rica, 2012
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Gabriela Simões Mathias, From Japantown to Chinatown? Negotiating Place in a Multiethnic Neighbourhood in Brazil, 2016
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Viktoriia Mudrak, Transnational families and Distant Parenthood, An Example of Ukrainian Migrant Mothers’ and Fathers’ Parental Strategies, 2012
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Marina Pislaru, The Economics of Colour: Inside China s Racialized ESL Market, 2016
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Al Amin Rabby, The Struggle for Education Among Rohingya Refugees of Myanmar Living in Bangladesh, 2015
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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
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Dilnoza Saratova, Identity Born in Violence: The Case of Uzbek Youth in Kyrgyzstan, 2011
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Agne Stankeviciute, Inter-ethnic Couples in Lithuania Dealing with Racialisation and Ethnic Intolerance, 2012
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Tirza Snoijl, Mopping the Floor with the Tap Still Running’: A Critical Case Study on Structural Ethno-Racial Inequality and Dutch Homelessness Policy, 2015
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Manon Tiessien, An Expedition into the White Lowlands: Whiteness, Multiculturalism and Color-blind Ideology (Ethnic Identity Construction Among Native Dutch), 2011
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Eva Gracia Turgeon, From Roots to Routes: Locating Montreal Multilingual Youth within Quebec Hegenomic Discourse, 2016
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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
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Sanda Vantoni, The Impact of the Family on Moroccan Return Migration, 2016
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