Supporting integration: access to citizenship in Ireland and the EU
Prof. Maarten Vink, European University Institute and Co-Director of the Global Citizenship Observatory (GLOBALCIT), will provide a keynote talk at this online conference.
Speakers will review a decade of significant change to citizenship in Ireland and reflect on international experience.
Prof. Iseult Honohan, UCD; Dr Ricky van Oers, Radboud University; and Catherine Cosgrave, Immigrant Council of Ireland will participate and new ESRI/EMN Ireland research on citizenship will be presented.
The event is hosted by EMN Ireland within the ESRI.
Programme
Programme
9:30
Welcome
Fran McGinnity, Associate Research Professor
9:35
Keynote: Citizenship acquisition and labour market outcomes of migrants
Maarten Vink, European University Institute and Co-Director of the Global Citizenship Observatory (GLOBALCIT)
10.05
Questions and answers
Session 1: Pathways to Citizenship
Session 1: Pathways to Citizenship
Chair: Fran McGinnity, Associate Research Professor
10:10
EMN Ireland study on Pathways to citizenship through naturalisation in Ireland
Róisín Dunbar, Irish Centre for Human Rights, NUI Galway (formerly EMN Ireland)
10:30
Irish citizenship: An overview of recent developments
Catherine Cosgrave, Immigrant Council of Ireland
10:50
Pathways to citizenship for third-country nationals in Finland
Tuukka Lampi, EMN Finland
11:10
Questions and Answers
11:25
Coffee Break
Session 2: Citizenship, requirements and integration
Session 2: Citizenship, requirements and integration
Chair: Aonghus O’Connor, Principal Officer, Immigration Service Delivery, Department of Justice
11:40
Conceptions of citizenship and criteria for naturalisation
Iseult Honohan, University College Dublin
12:00
International practices on civics and language requirements linked to naturalisation
Michal Polakowski, EMN Ireland/Economic and Social Research Institute
12:20
Deserving citizenship in Germany and the Netherlands: Citizenship tests in liberal democracies
Ricky van Oers, Radboud University, Netherlands
12:40
Questions and Answers
13:00
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