Prof Mary Gilmartin
Biography
Research
Publications
Professional
Teaching
Biography
I completed a PhD in Geography at the University of Kentucky and worked at Nottingham Trent University and University College Dublin before joining Maynooth University in 2008. The main focus of my research is contemporary Irish migration and mobility. I am currently working on a new research project, funded by the Irish Research Council's Advanced Laureate programme. You can read a short account of the project here. The project will run from 2023 to 2027. Previous research projects, on migration-related topics, received funding from organisations such as the Irish Research Council and the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (with Dr Clíodhna Murphy in Law).
I have published widely on migration and within the discipline of geography. My book on Ireland and migration in the twenty-first century was published by Manchester University Press in 2015, and you can hear about the book in this interview with The History Show on RTE Radio 1. A full list of publications is available here.
I was Managing Editor of Social & Cultural Geography, a leading international geography journal, from 2014 to 2018. I remain a member of the journal's editorial board.
Research Interests
My research interests lie at the intersection of political, cultural and social geography. My current research focuses on migration, in particular contemporary migration to and from Ireland. Bettina Migge (UCD) and I recently completed a 2-year study of recent migration to Ireland, funded by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences, and I continue to work on other migration-related research projects. In addition, I also engage in broader debates about the nature and practice of geography, informed by social theory.
I am Managing Editor of Social & Cultural Geography, and am a member of the editorial boards of ACME, Geographical Journal, Journal of Geography in Higher Education, and Political Geography.
Book
Edited Book
Peer Reviewed Journal
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Gilmartin M.; Dagg J. (2022) 'Finding the Gap: Immigrant Integration Outcomes and Settlement Service Provision in the Republic of Ireland'. Journal of International Migration and Integration, 23 (2):679-699. [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
| 2021 | Gilmartin M.; Dagg J. (2021) 'Integration as Making Place'. Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies, . [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
| 2020 | Jacobsen, MH; Gilmartin, M (2020) 'The ethics and politics of migration research'. DIALOGUES IN HUMAN GEOGRAPHY, . [DOI] | |
| 2020 | Gilmartin, M; Dagg, J (2020) 'Spatializing immigrant integration outcomes'. Population, Space and Place, . [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
| 2020 | Gilmartin, M; Coppari, PR; Phelan, D (2020) 'Promising precarity: the lives of Dublin's international students'. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, . [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
| 2019 | Murphy, C; Caulfield, L; Gilmartin, M (2019) 'Developing immigrant integration policy in the Irish public sector: An international human rights and public sector duty approach'. Administration, 67 :27-45. [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
| 2019 | Gilmartin M.; McGing C.; Browne K. (2019) 'Feminist and gender geographies in Ireland'. Gender, Place, and Culture, 26 (7-9):1111-1118. [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
| 2019 | Murphy C, Gilmartin M and Caulfield L (2019) 'Building and Applying a Human Rights-Based Model for Migrant Integration Policy'. Journal of Human Rights Practice, (Advance Access):1-22. [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
| 2018 | Wood P.; Gilmartin M. (2018) 'Irish enough: changing narratives of citizenship and national identity in the context of Brexit'. Space and Polity, 22 (2):224-237. [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
| 2018 | Naylor L.; Daigle M.; Zaragocin S.; Ramírez M.; Gilmartin M. (2018) 'Interventions: Bringing the decolonial to political geography'. Political Geography, . [DOI] | |
| 2017 | Cian O'Callaghan & Mary Gilmartin (2017) 'Borders and borderlines'. Soundings, 64 . [Full-Text] | |
| 2016 | Gilmartin M.; Migge B. (2016) 'Migrant mothers and the geographies of belonging'. Gender, Place, and Culture, 23 (2):147-161. [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
| 2015 | Gilmartin, M; Migge, B (2015) 'European migrants in Ireland: Pathways to integration'. European Urban and Regional Studies, 22 :285-299. [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
| 2015 | Gilmartin M.; Migge B. (2015) 'Home stories: immigrant narratives of place and identity in contemporary Ireland'. Journal of Cultural Geography, 32 (1):83-101. [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
| 2013 | Gilmartin M. (2013) 'Changing Ireland, 2000-2012: Immigration, emigration and inequality'. Irish Geography, 46 (1-2):91-111. [DOI] | |
| 2013 | Gilmartin M. (2013) 'British migrants and Irish anxieties'. Social Identities, 19 (5):637-652. [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
| 2011 | Migge, B; Gilmartin, M (2011) 'Migrants and healthcare: Investigating patient mobility among migrants in Ireland'. Health and Place, 17 :1144-1149. [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
| 2011 | Gilmartin, M; White, A (2011) 'Interrogating Medical Tourism: Ireland, Abortion, and Mobility Rights'. Signs, 36 :275-280. [Full-Text] | |
| 2010 | Moore, N; Gilmartin, M (2010) 'Teaching for Better Learning: A Blended Learning Pilot Project with First-Year Geography Undergraduates'. Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 34 :327-344. [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
| 2009 | Gilmartin, M (2009) 'Border thinking: Rossport, Shell and the political geographies of a gas pipeline'. Political Geography, 28 :274-282. [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
| 2008 | Gilmartin M. (2008) 'Migration, identity and belonging'. Geography Compass, 2 (6):1837-1852. [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
| 2008 | Gilmartin M.; White A. (2008) 'Revisiting contemporary Irish migration: New geographies of mobility and belonging'. Irish Geography, 41 (2):143-149. [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
| 2008 | White, A; Gilmartin, M (2008) 'Critical geographies of citizenship and belonging in Ireland'. Women's Studies International Forum, 31 :390-399. [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
| 2015 | Kuusisto-Arponen AK, Gilmartin M (2015) 'Guest editorial: The Politics of Migration'. Political Geography, July . http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2015.06.008 [Full-Text] | |
| 2014 | Boyle M, Foote K, Gilmartin M (2014) 'Rethinking the PhD in geography: overview and introduction'. Geojournal, Online First . [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
| 2014 | Gilmartin M, Migge B (2014) 'Migrant mothers and the geographies of belonging'. Gender, Place, and Culture, Online First . [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
| 2013 | Mains SP, Gilmartin M, Cullen D, Mohammad R, Tolia-Kelly DP, Raghuram P, Winders J (2013) 'Postcolonial migrations'. Social and Cultural Geography, 14 :131-144. [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
| 2011 | Migge, B., and M. Gilmartin (2011) 'Migrants and healthcare: investigating patient mobility in Ireland'. Health and Place, 17 . [Full-Text] | |
| 2011 | Gilmartin, M. (2011) 'Working through a recession'. Translocations: Migration and Social Change, 7 . [Full-Text] | |
| 2008 | M. Gilmartin and G. Mills (2008) 'Mapping migrants: some cautionary notes'. Translocations: Migration and Social Change, 41 :21-34. | |
| 2008 | M. Gilmartin, J.A. O’Connell and B. Migge (2008) 'Lithuanians in Ireland'. Oikos, 5 :49-62. [Full-Text] | |
| 2007 | M. Gilmartin and L. Berg (2007) 'Locating postcolonialism'. Area, 39 :120-124. [Full-Text] | |
| 2005 | M. Gilmartin and A. Buttimer (2005) 'Ireland: John Bull’s Other Island'. 8 :46-60. [Full-Text] | |
| 2004 | M. Gilmartin (2004) 'Geography and Representation'. Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 28 :281-284. [Full-Text] | |
| 2004 | M. Gilmartin (2004) 'Geography in Ireland in Transition: some comments'. Irish Geography, 37 :121-144. [Full-Text] | |
| 2004 | M. Gilmartin (2004) 'Language, Education and the new South Africa'. Tijdschrift Voor Economische En Sociale Geografie, 95 :405-418. [Full-Text] | |
| 2004 | M. Gilmartin (2004) 'Migration, identity and citizenship'. Geographical Viewpoint, 32 :18-25. | |
| 2002 | M. Gilmartin and H. Rangan (2002) 'Gender, Traditional Authority, and the Politics of Rural Reform in South Africa'. Development and Change, 33 :633-658. [Full-Text] | |
| 2001 | M. Gilmartin and O. Dwyer (2001) 'From Mission to Parish: St Peter Claver Catholic Church, Lexington, Kentucky'. Southeastern Geographer, XXXXI :117-126. [Full-Text] |
Article
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Mains, SP; Gilmartin, M; Cullen, D; Mohammad, R; Tolia-Kelly, DP; Raghuram, P; Winders, J (2013) Postcolonial migrations. ABINGDON: [Article] [DOI] [Full-Text] |
Book Chapter
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Migge B.; Gilmartin M. (2016) 'Unbounding migration studies: The intersections of language, space and time' In: Migrations: Ireland in a global world. | |
| 2019 | Gilmartin M.; Kuusisto-Arponen A.K. (2019) 'Borders and bodies: Siting critical geographies of migration' In: Handbook on Critical Geographies of Migration. | |
| 2019 | Kuusisto-Arponen A.K.; Gilmartin M. (2019) 'Embodied migration and the geographies of care: The worlds of unaccompanied refugee minors' In: Handbook on Critical Geographies of Migration. | |
| 2019 | Mary Gilmartin, Sinéad Kennedy (2019) 'A Double Movement: The Politics of Reproductive Mobility in Ireland' In: Abortion Across Borders. Baltimore, MD : Johns Hopkins University Press. | |
| 2019 | Murphy C, Gilmartin M and Caulfield L (2019) 'Using International Human Rights Law in Interdisciplinary Human Rights Research' In: Case Studies in Legal Research Methodologies: Reflections on Theory and Practice. Dublin : Clarus Press. | |
| 2018 | S Kennedy, M Gilmartin (2018) 'Mobility, migrants and abortion in Ireland' In: Crossing Troubled Waters. PEI : Island Studies Press. | |
| 2017 | M Gilmartin (2017) 'Representation' In: The International Encyclopedia of Geography. Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley Blackwell. [DOI] | |
| 2017 | M Gilmartin (2017) 'Belonging' In: Oxford Bibliographies: Geography. Oxford : OUP. [DOI] | |
| 2017 | Mary Gilmartin (2017) 'Migration patterns, experiences and consequences in an age of austerity' In: Debating austerity in Ireland: crisis, experience and recovery. Dublin : Royal Irish Academy. | |
| 2016 | Gilmartin M.; White A. (2016) 'Conclusion: The place of migration' In: Migrations: Ireland in a global world. | |
| 2015 | Gilmartin, M (2015) 'Diversity in Crisis: Reshaping Contemporary Ireland' In: GOVERNING THROUGH DIVERSITY: MIGRATION SOCIETIES IN POST-MULTICULTURALIST TIMES. BASINGSTOKE : PALGRAVE. | |
| 2014 | M Gilmartin (2014) 'Immigration and spatial justice in contemporary Ireland' In: Spatial justice and the Irish crisis. Dublin : Royal Irish Academy. | |
| 2013 | White, A; Gilmartin, M (2013) 'Introduction: Ireland and its relationship with migration' In: MIGRATIONS: IRELAND IN A GLOBAL WORLD. MANCHESTER : MANCHESTER UNIV PRESS. | |
| 2013 | Gilmartin M (2013) 'Ireland, migration late 18th century to present' In: I Ness(Eds.). The Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration. : Blackwell. [DOI] | |
| 2008 | Crowley, U; Gilmartin, M; Kitchin, R (2008) 'Race and Immigration in Contemporary Ireland' In: NEW GEOGRAPHIES OF RACE AND RACISM. ALDERSHOT : ASHGATE PUBLISHING LTD. | |
| 2008 | Gilmartin, M. (2008) 'Dublin: an emerging gateway?' In: L. Benton-Short and M. Price(Eds.). Migrants to the Metropolis: The Rise of Immigrant Gateway Cities. New York : Syracuse University Press. | |
| 2006 | Gilmartin, M. (2006) 'Geography and Ethics' In: B. Warf(Eds.). The Encyclopedia of Human Geography. London & California : Sage Publications. | |
| 2006 | Gilmartin, M. (2006) 'Race/Racism' In: B. Warf(Eds.). The Encyclopedia of Human Geography. London & California : Sage Publications. | |
| 2006 | Gilmartin, M. (2006) 'Ethnicity' In: B. Warf(Eds.). The Encyclopedia of Human Geography. London & California : Sage Publications. | |
| 2004 | Gilmartin, M. and Kofman, E. (2004) 'Critically Feminist Geopolitics' In: L. Staeheli, E. Kofman and L. Peake(Eds.). Mapping Gender, Making Politics: Feminism and Political Geography. New York : Routledge. | |
| 2002 | M. Gilmartin (2002) 'Making Space for Personal Journeys' In: P. Moss(Eds.). Feminist Geography in Practice: Research and Methods. : Blackwell. | |
| 2002 | W. Davies and M. Gilmartin (2002) 'Geography as a Cultural Field' In: Rod Gerber and Michael Williams(Eds.). Geography, Culture and Education. Netherlands : Kluwer. | |
| 1999 | M. Gilmartin (1999) 'The Irish Travels of Asenath Nicholson in 1844-45' In: Anne Buttimer, Stanley Brunn and Ute Wardenga(Eds.). Text and Image: Social Construction of Regional Knowledges. Leipzig : Selbstverlag Institut für Länderkunde. |
Conference Contribution
Published Report
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Murphy C, Caulfield L and Gilmartin M (2018) Developing Integration Policy in the Public Sector: A Human Rights Approach. Maynooth University, . [Full-Text] | |
| 2018 | Mary Gilmartin, Jennifer Dagg (2018) Immigrant integration and settlement services in Ireland. MUSSI, . https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/sites/default/files/assets/document//Immigrant%20Integration%20Final%20Report%202018%20%28002%29.pdf | |
| 2017 | Clíodhna Murphy, Leanne Caulfield, Mary Gilmartin (2017) Developing Integration Policy in the Public Sector: A Human Rights Approach. MUSSI, . [Link] [Full-Text] | |
| 2015 | M Gilmartin, B Gallwey (2015) Migrants and Homeless Services in the Dublin Region: a research briefing paper. Dublin Region Homeless Agency, . | |
| 2008 | M. Gilmartin, B. Migge, A. Feldman and S. Loyal (2008) Getting On: From Migration to Integration – Chinese, Indian, Lithuanian and Nigerian Migrants’ Experiences in Ireland. Immigrant Council of Ireland, . |
Editorial
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Brown S.; Gilmartin M. (2019) Migration and mobilities. [Editorial] [DOI] | |
| 2015 | Boyle M.; Foote K.; Gilmartin M. (2015) Rethinking the PhD in geography: overview and introduction. [Editorial] [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
| 2015 | Kuusisto-Arponen, AK; Gilmartin, M (2015) The politics of migration. OXFORD: [Editorial] [DOI] |
Working Paper
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 | M Gilmartin, P Rojas Coppari, D Phelan (2016) International Student Migration to Ireland. NIRSA: [Working Paper] https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/social-sciences-institute/working-papers | |
| 2012 | M Gilmartin (2012) The changing landscape of Irish migration, 2000-2012. NIRS: [Working Paper] [Link] | |
| 2006 | M. Gilmartin, U. Crowley and R. Kitchin (2006) ’Vote Yes for Commonsense Citizenship’: the paradoxes at the heart of Ireland’s Céad Míle Fáilte. [Working Paper] [Full-Text] |
Note
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Jacobsen M.H.; Gilmartin M. (2021) The ethics and politics of migration research. [Note] [DOI] |
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