Education: holds a B.A. (International) in History and German from the National University of Ireland and conducted Masters research in Latin American History and Spanish at the University of Hamburg. PhD (2006) in Migration History from the National University of Ireland on nineteenth-century migration from Ireland to Argentina.
Relevant experience and expertise: Claire started at ICMPD in February 2011 and is coordinating projects in the areas of child begging and visa regulations. She was previously a Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) post-doctoral fellow at Lisbon University Institute, researching language and migration, and completed research for the Immigration Observatory on naturalisation in Portugal. During 2007-2009, she worked as an Advisor at the Portuguese Government's High Commission for Immigration and Intercultural Dialogue (ACIDI, IP). There she worked on various EU Integration Fund projects, including “One-Stop-Shop: A New Answer for Immigrant Integration” and “Be naturalized or become a citizen?” She addressed the European Union High Level Dialogue on Legal Immigration in September 2007. From 2005 to 2007, Claire worked in Dublin as a Research Consultant for a number of NGOs in the field of migration and refugees, authoring two published reports for the Immigrant Council of Ireland, on language programmes for migrants and on state coordination of migration policy. She also co-authored a report for the CADIC Coalition on migrants in Ireland whose status is based on their Irish-born children.
Since 2009, she has been President of the Society for Irish Latin American Studies, and since 2006, Editor of the Society’s electronic open-access journal, Irish Migration Studies in Latin America. She has taught at Summer schools at Lisbon University Insitute and at an international seminar in Poland. Claire has also worked as a translator and speaks German, Portuguese, Spanish, Irish, French, Cape Verdean Creole and basic Croatian. She has worked with migrant, asylum-seeking and ethnic minortiy children in Hamburg, Galway and Lisbon.
Research interests: Migration Policy, Citizenship, Child Protection, Language and Migration, Roma Migration.
Selected publications:
Healy, Claire (2011). Cidadania Portuguesa: A Nova Lei de Nacionalidade de 2006 (Portuguese Citizenship: The New 2006 Nationality Law). Lisbon: Immigration Observatory.
Healy, Claire (Forthcoming, 2011). Free People of Color in Argentina. In: Stewart King (Ed.), The Encyclopedia of Free Blacks and Free People of Color in the Americas. New York: Facts on File.
Healy, Claire; Oliveira, Catarina; Abranches, Maria (Feburary 2009). Handbook on How to Implement a One-Stop-Shop for Immigrant Integration. Project funded by the European Union INTI Fund. Lisbon: ACIDI.
Coakley, Liam; Healy, Claire (November 2007). Looking Forward, Looking Back: Experiences of Irish Citizen Child Families. Dublin: Integrating Ireland (commissioned by the CADIC coalition).
List of publications
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E-mail: Claire.Healy(at)icmpd.org