Migration, education and cultural diversity

lecture

Ireland is one of just two EU countries that has a majority of migrants from the EU member states. The diversity and scale of EU migration is a recent phenomenon though there is a long tradition of migration to Ireland from some EU-15 states, especially the UK, Germany and France. Ireland has also become home to a range of people from outside the EU including Nigeria, China, India, Philippines and Brazil.

This conference is the first part of the three part conference series under the main topic “How Migration Challenges Notions of Society, Education and Culture”.

Key issue of this conference is the way how migrant-receiving countries face the challenge to integrate newcomers into its education system and how to deal with the newly emerging diversity within the educational system.

Dympna Devine from the University College Dublin, Audrey Bryan from St. Patrick’ s College Drumcondra and Brigitta Busch from the University of Vienna will also contribute their knowledge about  migration, education and cultural diversity. Moderator of this conference will be Bettina Migge from the University College of Dublin.