Muireann Ni Raghallaign, University College Dublin
Upon qualifying as a social worker Muireann worked with Separated Children Seeking Asylum in Ireland. Her subsequent Ph.D. involved a qualitative study of the experiences of unaccompanied minors, focusing on their coping strategies, including their use of religious coping. Following completion of her Ph.D., Muireann worked as a lecturer in Trinity College Dublin and as a researcher on the Trinity Immigration Initiative. She began working as a Lecturer in Social Work in University College Dublin in September 2008. Muireann is currently working on a study of separated asylum seeking children living in foster care. She has also undertaken research on gender based violence in Ethiopia.
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Religion in the lives of unaccompanied minors: an available and compelling coping resource
Author: M. Ni RaghallaighPublication date: 26/01/2012
Anecdotal evidence suggests that religion plays an important role in the lives of asylum seekers and refugees....
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