Dr Claire Dorrity is a lecturer in social policy at the School of Applied Social Studies, University College Cork (UCC). Her main research interests include Migration Policy; Border Securitisation and Externalisation; Refugee Displacement; Critical Multiculturalism and Superdiversity; Migrant Solidarities
Her most recent research projects include: EMBRACE: Exploring Mobility: Borders, Refugees & Challenging Exclusion (Irish Research Council New Foundations Program) focused on the frontiers of border militarisation, using two case studies - the EU Mediterranean border and the US/Mexican border (Sept 2020 -July 2022).
https://www.ucc.ie/en/iss21/researchprojects/researchprojects/earlieris…
Her current research project Migrant Education: Challenges and Exclusion (MiEd) is funded through the UNIC Research Seed Funding and is focused on participatory action based research addressing barriers to education for migrants in a local and transnational context. Research partners include University of Liege, Koç University, Turkey, University College Cork and community partners and migrants across university partners.
Claire is a research associate with the Institute of Social Science in the 21st Century, UCC (ISS21) and committee member of the Migration and Integration Research Cluster, (ISS21,UCC). https://www.ucc.ie/en/iss21/clusters/migration/
Claire is a member of the UCC Team of UNIC Consortium https://www.unic.eu/en made up of 10 university partners, focusing on; Diversity and inclusion, Impact and mobility, and Engaged and transdisciplinary research. Claire is the UCC academic lead for the UNIC Joint MA in Superdiversity in Education, Organisations and Society.
Claire is a member of the Task Force on Responsible Internationalisation & Global Engagement (RIGE) promoting Academic Freedom and Academic Responsibility in Internationalisation in Higher Education and Research across European University Networks. https://utrecht-network.org/task-forces/rige/
She is joint editor of Migration: Global Processes Caught in National Answers (Nova 2014) and co-editor of Social Professional Activity: The Search for a Minimum Common Denominator in Difference (Wiener Verlag 2009).
Claire is a member of the University of Sanctuary Executive Committee and a member of the University of Sanctuary Working Group. She is also a member of the Schools of Sanctuary, Ireland Monitoring Team.
She is a member of the Latin American Regional Working Group (LARWG), UCC.
She is the School Applied Social Studies Internationalisation Representative, UCC.