Research Profile

Alan Desmond

BIOGRAPHY

Alan Desmond is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Law, University College Cork. He holds a first class honours BCL (Law & Irish) and a first class honours LLM (Criminal Justice) from UCC. His PhD thesis, conducted under the supervision of Professor Siobhán Mullally, investigates the situations in which irregular migrants in the EU may have a right to a legal status. He has been a Visiting Researcher at the University of Warsaw, Harvard Law School and UCLA School of Law. His research has been funded by the UCC Faculty of Law and by the Irish Research Council. His research interests include EU law, human rights law, migration law and the ethics of immigration. Between his undergraduate and postgraduate studies, Alan taught Irish at the Catholic University of Lublin in Poland. During his time in Poland, Alan contributed regularly to the print and broadcast media in Ireland and wrote several Irish language books, a number of which were prizewinners at the Oireachtas na Gaeilge literary awards.

Publications

Book Chapters

 YearPublication
(2013)'Regularization in the EU and the US: The Frequent Use of an Exceptional Measure'
Alan Desmond (2013) 'Regularization in the EU and the US: The Frequent Use of an Exceptional Measure' In: D. Acosta & A. Wiesbrock (eds). Global Migration Issues: Myths and Realities. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-Clio. [Details]
(2013)'Irregular Immigrants and Their Irish Citizen Children: The Limits of National Citizenship'
Alan Desmond (2013) 'Irregular Immigrants and Their Irish Citizen Children: The Limits of National Citizenship' In: M. J. Guia, J. van der Leun & M. van der Woude (eds). Social Control and Justice: Crimmigration in the Age of Fear. The Hague: Eleven International Publishing. [Details]

Conference Contributions

 YearPublication
(2011)16th International Metropolis Conference, “Migration Futures: Perspectives on Global Changes,
Alan Desmond (2011) Irregular Immigrants and EU Citizens: A Regularising Relationship? The Case of Ireland. [Invited Oral Presentation], 16th International Metropolis Conference, “Migration Futures: Perspectives on Global Changes, Ponta Delgada, Sao Miguel , 12-SEP-11 - 16-SEP-11
(2011)Canadian Association for Refugee and Forced Migration Studies (CARFMS) Annual Conference, “Human Rights Challenges”,
Alan Desmond (2011) Strengthening Borders, Weakening Citizenship Protections: Deportation of Irish Citizen Children and their Irregular Immigrant Parents. [Oral Presentation], Canadian Association for Refugee and Forced Migration Studies (CARFMS) Annual Conference, “Human Rights Challenges”, Montréal, Canada , 11-MAY-11 - 13-MAY-11
(2011)8th Annual Conference of the IMISCOE Research Network, “Dynamics of European Migration Space: Economy, Politics and Development”,
Alan Desmond (2011) Regularisation of Irregular Immigrants in Poland: Perpetuating Exclusion?. [Oral Presentation], 8th Annual Conference of the IMISCOE Research Network, “Dynamics of European Migration Space: Economy, Politics and Development”, Warsaw, Poland , 08-SEP-11 - 09-SEP-11
(2012)Law and Society (LSA) Annual Meeting 2012, “Sociological Conversations across a Sea of Islands”,
Alan Desmond (2012) The Right of Irregular Immigrants in the EU to a Legal Status. [Oral Presentation], Law and Society (LSA) Annual Meeting 2012, “Sociological Conversations across a Sea of Islands”, Hilton Hawaiian Village, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA , 04-JUN-12 - 08-JUN-12

Book Review

 YearPublication
(2013)Review of E. Guild & P. Minderhoud, eds., The First Decade of EU Migration and Asylum Law (Leiden; Boston: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2012).
Alan Desmond (2013) Review of E. Guild & P. Minderhoud, eds., The First Decade of EU Migration and Asylum Law (Leiden; Boston: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2012). Book Reviews [Details]

Professional Activities

Languages

 LanguageReadingWritingSpeaking
French FunctionalFunctionalBasic
Polish FluentFluentFluent
Gaeilge FluentFluentFluent

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