Books & Publications

NewBook  Release - Moving to Oaktown

Skye is an adventure-seeking girl. Her parents have separated and Skye is going to live with her Mum in a new house in a new town. Skye wants it to be the best home ever and desperately wants to fit in at school. Luckily, she makes friends with Gracie and Hope who live on her new street. Skye starts her new school and encounters a few issues.

​ Moving to Oaktown is a heart-warming story about moving home and the importance of friendship, with a twist of magic.

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Gracie and Mouse are Moving House

Gracie is a girl who is moving house! She isn't moving on her own though, she has her toy mouse! Find out what happens to Gracie and Mouse on moving day, as they make new friends and find new places to play!
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This beautifully illustrated book is for all children but will be particularly helpful for those who are moving home soon. The uplifting story is based on what academic research with hundreds of families has shown helps children when they move home.

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I am very excited to announce that the first book in my ‘How To…’ Series is coming out soon ‘How to Move Home with Kids’ Naomi Tyrrell, PhD

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As a Social Scientist, I have written many academic publications about child and family migration. Some of these are freely available on the links below.

University of Plymouth

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Books

Tyrrell, N., White, A., Ní Laoire, C., Carpena-Mendez, F. (Eds) (2012) Transnational Migration and Childhood. London, New York: Routledge Taylor Francis. 
Darmody, M., Tyrrell, N., & Song, S. (Eds) (2011) The Changing Faces of Ireland: Exploring the Lives of Immigrant and Ethnic Minority Children. Rotterdam: Sense.
Ní Laoire, C., Carpena-Mendez, F., Tyrrell, N. & White, A. (2011) Childhood and Migration in Europe: Portraits of Mobility, Identity and Belonging in Contemporary Ireland. Farnham: Ashgate Press, Studies in Migration and Diaspora Series.

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Journal Articles

Kelly, C., Tyrrell, N. & Yarwood, R. (at review) War Babies or Heroic Citizens? Children, Military Families and Soldier Citizenship. Geoforum.
Kallis, G., Tyrrell, N. & Yarwood, R. (in press) Gender, Spatiality and Motherhood: Intergenerational Change in Greek-Cypriot Migrant Families in the UK. Social and Cultural Geography.
Sime, D., Moskal, M, Tyrrell, N. (in press) Going Back, Staying Put, Moving On: Brexit and the Future Imaginaries of Central and Eastern European Young People in Britain Central and Eastern European Migration Review.
Tyrrell N., Sime D., Kelly C., McMellon C. (2019). Belonging in Brexit Britain: Central and Eastern European 1.5 generation young people's experiences. Population, Space and Place, https://doi: 10.1002/psp.2205
Botterill K., McCollum, D., Tyrrell, N. (2019). Negotiating Brexit: Migrant Spatialities and identities in a changing Europe.  Population, Space and Place, https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.2216
Kallis, G., Yarwood, R., Tyrrell, N. (2018) Translocal Space Across Migrant Generations: The case of a Greek Orthodox Church in the UK. Population, Space and Place, https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.2206
Moskal, M. & Tyrrell, N. (2016) Family Migration Decision-Making, Step-Migration and Separation: Children’s Experiences in European Migrant Worker Families. Children’s Geographies 14(4): 453-467
Tyrrell, N. & Harmer, N. (2015) 'A Good Move? Young People's Comparisons of Rural and Urban Living in Contemporary Rural Britain' Childhood - A Global Journal of Child Research 22(4): 551-565
Tyrrell, N. (2015) ‘Transnational Migrant Children’s Language Practices in Translocal Spaces’ Diskurs Kindheits - und Jugendforschung/Discourse. Journal of Childhood and Adolescence Research Jahrgang 10 Heft 1
Tyrrell, N., Guijarro-Fuentes, P. & Blandon, C. (2014) Intergenerational Heritage Language Practices: A Case Study of Spanish-Speaking Families in Britain. Applied Linguistics Review 5(2): 307-328
Yarwood, R. & Tyrrell, N. (2012) 'Why Children's Geographies?' Geography 97(3): 123-128
Yarwood, R. & Tyrrell, N. (2012) 'Editorial: Children's and Young People's Geographies' Geography 97(3): 114-5  
Ni Laoire, C., White, A., Tyrrell, N. & Carpena-Mendez, F. (2012) 'Children and Young People on the Move: geographies of child and youth migration' Geography 97(3): 129-134
White, A. & Bushin, N. (2011) ‘More-Than-Methods: Learning from Research with Children in the Irish Asylum System’ Population, Space and Place 17(4): 326-337 
White, A., Ní Laoire, C., Tyrrell, N. & Carpena-Mendez, J. (2011) ‘Children's Roles in Transnational Migration’, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 37(8): 1159-1170
Ní Laoire, C., Carpena-Mendez, J., Tyrrell, N. & White, A. (2010) ‘Children and Migration: Identities, Home and Belongings’, Childhood 17(2): 155-162 
Bushin, N. & White, A. (2010) ‘Migration Politics in Ireland: Exploring the Impacts on Young People’s Geographies’ Area 42(2): 170–180
White, A., Bushin, N. & Carpena-Mendez, J. & Ni Laoire, C. (2010) 'Using Visual Methods to Explore Contemporary Irish Childhoods' Qualitative Research 10(2): 143-158
Bushin, N. (2009) ‘Researching Family Migration Decision-Making: A Children-in-Families Approach’ Population, Space and Place 15: 429-443
Bushin, N. (2008) ‘Quantitative Datasets and Children’s Geographies: Examples and Reflections from Migration Research’, Viewpoints, Children’s Geographies 6(4): 451-7 
Bushin, N. (2007) ‘Interviewing Children in their Homes: Developing Flexible Techniques and Putting Ethical Principles into Practice’, Children’s Geographies 5(3): 235-251

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Research Reports

Moskal, M., Sime D., Tyrrell N., McMellon C., Kelly C. (2018). Eastern European Youth Identities in Uncertain Times (Research and Policy Briefing No. 5). University of Strathclyde.
Kelly C., Tyrrell N., Sime D., Käkelä E., Corson S., McMellon C., Moskal M. (2018). Eastern European Young People's Use of Services in the UK (Research and Policy Briefing No. 4). University of Strathclyde. 
Tyrrell N., Kelly C., Moskal M. (2018). Eastern European Young People's Political and Community Engagement in the UK (Research and Policy Briefing No. 3). University of Strathclyde. 
Tyrrell, N., Kakela, E., Corson, S., Sime, D., Kelly, C., McMellon, C. & Moskal, M. (2018) Eastern European Young People’s Feelings of Belonging: Any Place in Brexit Britain? (Research and Policy Briefing No. 2).  University of Strathclyde.
Sime, D., Kakela, E., Corson, S., Tyrrell, N., McMellon, C., Kelly, C. & Moskal, M. (2017) Eastern European Young People in Brexit Britain: Racism, Anxiety and a Precarious Future’ Research and Policy Briefing No. 1). University of Strathclyde.
Ní Laoire, C., Bushin, N., Carpena-Mendez, J. & White, A. (2009) Tell me about yourself: children’s and young people’s experiences of moving to and living in Ireland, UCC 
Bushin, N. (2009) Nasc’s Research Design Frameworks and Ethical Protocol, Cork: Nasc
Ní Laoire, C., Bushin, N., White, A.  & Carpena-Mendez, J. (2008) ‘Negotiating Belonging: Migrant Children in Ireland’, MCMCP Working Paper 1
White, A. & Bushin, N. (2007) ‘Immigrant Children in Cork City’, for Nasc and Cork City Childcare Company

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Book Chapters

Tyrrell, N., Sime, D. & Moskal, M. (in prep.) ‘Gathering young people’s perspectives on their school experiences using creative techniques’ in J. Andrews & M. Almohammad Crafting Multilingual Schools – Ways of Supporting Learners Developing English as an Additional Language Using Creative Arts Methods. Multilingual Matters: Bristol.  (Invited book chapter)
Tyrrell, N. (2016) 'Making Use of Secondary Data', in N. Clifford, M. Cope, T. Gillespie & S. French (eds) Key Methods in Geography (3rd edition) Sage Publications
White, A., Tyrrell, N., Carpena Mendez, F. & Ni Laoire, C. (2016) 'Migrant Children, Global Consumer Culture and Multiple Belongings: Children's Experiences of Migrating to Ireland', Movement, Mobilities and Journeys (Vol 6) Geographies of Children and Young People, Singapore: Springer
Tyrrell, N. & Kallis, G. (2015) 'Children in Transnational Migration', in C. Ni Laoire, A. White & T. Skelton (eds) Movement, Mobilities and Journeys (Vol 6), Geographies of Children and Young People, Singapore: Springer
White, A. & Tyrrell, N. (2015) 'Research with Children Seeking Asylum in Ireland: Reflecting on Silences and Hushed Voices', in R. Evans, L. Holt & T. Skelton (eds) Methodological Approaches (Vol 2), Geographies of Children and Young People, Singapore: Springer
Tyrrell, N. & Kraftl, P. (2015) ‘Migration and the Lifecourse’, in D. Smith, N. Finney, K. Halfacree & N. Walford (eds) Internal Migration: Geographic Processes and Perspectives, Farnham: Ashgate
Tyrrell, N. (2013) ''Of course, I'm not Irish': young people in migrant worker families in Ireland and their plans for the future' in C. Crowley & D. Linehan (Eds) Spacing Ireland, Manchester University Press 
White, A., Tyrrell, N., Carpena-Mendez, J. & Ni Laoire, C. (2013)  'Children's Words, Children's Worlds: exploring the experiences of migrant children in Ireland' in M. Gilmartin & A. White (eds) Ireland in a Global World: Migrations, Manchester University Press
White, A., Bushin, N., Carpena-Mendez, F. & Ni Laoire C. (2012) 'Using Visual Methodologies to Explore Contemporary Irish Childhoods' in J. Hughes (Ed) Sage Visual Methods (Vol. 4), Sage Publications
Tyrrell, N., Darmody, M. & Song, S. (2011) 'Introduction: Immigrant and Ethnic Minority Children in Ireland', in M. Darmody, N. Tyrrell & S. Song (eds)  The Faces of Ireland: Exploring Immigrant and Ethnic Minority Children's Experiences, Sense Publications
Darmody, M., Tyrrell, N. & Song, S (2011) 'Immigrant and Ethnic Minority Children in Ireland: New Challenges and New Opportunities' in M. Darmody, N. Tyrrell &  S. Song (eds) The Changing Faces of Ireland: Exploring Immigrant and Ethnic Minority Children's Experiences, Sense Publications 
Tyrrell, N. (2011) ‘Children’s Agency in Family Migration Decision-Making in the UK’, in C. Coe et al. (eds) Everyday Ruptures: Children in Migration, Vanderbilt Press
Bushin, N. (2008) ‘Interviewing Children in their Homes: Developing Flexible Techniques and Putting Ethical Principles into Practice', in L. van Blerk & M. Kesby (eds) Doing Children's Geographies: Methodological Issues in Research with Young People, Routledge, Taylor & Francis, pp. 9-25
Bushin, N., Ansell, N., Adriansen, H., Laateenma, J. & Panelli, R. (2007) ‘Further conceptualising context and identity in young rural lives’ in R. Panelli, S. Punch & E. Robson (eds) ‘Global Perspectives on Rural Childhood and Youth’, London; New York: Routledge, pp. 69-8