Margaret Scanlon and Shirley Martin

Dr. Margaret Scanlon is the Research Coordinator in the Institute for Social Science in the 21st Century (ISS21) at UCC. Dr Shirley Martin is a Social Policy Lecturer at the School of Applied Social Studies at UCC . She is the Irish Primary Investigator for the four-year Horizon 2020 Project IMMERSE: Integration Mapping of Refugee and Migrant Children in Schools in Europe and the Primary Investigator on the Irish Research Council INVOLVE Project exploring migrant engagement in civic society through volunteerism.

Joined: June 10, 2022
Articles: 1

Diversity, Migration, Research, Volunteering

How migrant volunteering has benefits for everyone

Migration and integration has received much attention in policy and academic circles during the last two decades, particularly following the European refugee crisis from 2015/6 onwards. Some researchers have argued that there needs to be a change in perspective. Instead…