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Keelin Barry
Keelin Barry
Keelin Barry is an Irish Research Council (Government of Ireland) PhD Scholar based at the Irish Centre for Human Rights. Keelin attained a BSc (Hons) International Development and Food Policy at University College Cork in 2010; a Masters in Public Health in 2011 at University College Cork; and is a 2018 graduate of the Irish Centre for Human Rights LLM programme in Human Rights Law.
Keelin’s research is interdisciplinary in approach with a socio-legal focus. Keelin’s research interest areas include refugee and asylum law, disability law, public health, gender, forced displacement and migration, human trafficking, minority rights, human rights law, global health and health inequalities, human rights in Palestine, international development, disability and older persons human rights, critical race theory, intersectionality and discrimination, humanitarian emergencies and disability, housing rights, and qualitative research.
PhD Research Topic: Disability and caring in Direct Provision.
This international refugee law and disability law PhD research project examines the intesections of international and European refugee law, and international disability law. It specifically explores the material reception conditions of asylum seekers with disabilities, as well as asylum seekers who have experience of being carers while in the International Protection system in Ireland. This PhD research adopts a two track approach including first, a doctrinal legal analysis of two legal instruments-the Reception Conditions Directive 213/32/EU (RCD), and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD). The doctrinal analysis explores whether Ireland's transposition of the RCD Directive to (‘S.I 230/2018 European Communities (Reception Conditions) Regulations 2018’), as well as the ratification of the UNCRPD, will strengthen the rights of disabled asylum seekers living in the Direct Provision system.
Supervisors: Professor Siobhán Mullally and Dr Maeve O’Rourke
Scholarship / funding awards information: Irish Research Council PhD Scholarship Award (4 years)
Link to online academic profile: 000-0002-4995-7829
Publications
Journal Articles (Peer reviewed)
- ’Where is the vulnerability assessment tool? Disabled asylum seekers in Direct Provision in Ireland and the EU (Recast) Reception Conditions Directive 2013/33/EU’ in Jolly, A.,Pomati, M.& Rees J (eds.) Social Policy Review 33: Analysis and Debate in Social Policy, 2021. (Bristol University Press) pp.223-242.
Book Chapters (Peer reviewed)
- 2020:‘Invisible: Disabled Child and Adult Asylum Seekers Living in Direct Provision’ in ‘O’Riordan, J. and FitzGibbon M (eds), Direct Provision, Asylum, the Academy and Activism’ (2020; Lang Publishers, Germany). ISBN:978-1-78874-519-2. pp. 281-297.
Blog Posts and Opinion Editorials
- October 2021: Blog Post for Oxford Human Rights Hub (Faculty of Law, University of Oxford) ‘Assessing vulnerability: asylum seekers with disabilities in Direct Provision in Ireland’, 22 October 2021, available at:https://ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk/assessing-vulnerability-asylum-seekers-with-disabilities-in-direct-provision-in-ireland/
- October 2021: Newspaper Opinion Editorial for Journal.ie: ‘Asylum Seekers are largely invisible in an already difficult system’. 3 October 2021, available at: https://www.thejournal.ie/readme/disabled-asylum-seekers-face-increased-exclusion-5559833-Oct2021/
Published Reports
- 2014: Nasc, What’s food got to do with it? The food experience of asylum seekers living in Direct Provision centres in Cork, Ireland. (NASC Ireland, Irish Immigrant Support Centre), available at: https://nascireland.org/sites/default/files/WhatsFoodFINAL.pdf
- 2009: OCHA Special Focus ‘Locked in: the humanitarian impact of two years of blockade on the Gaza Strip’ – published by OCHA oPt, available at: https://reliefweb.int/report/occupied-palestinian-territory/ocha-opt-special-focus-locked-humanitarian-impact-two-years ) (translated into Arabic and Hebrew)
Published Submissions to UN Bodies
- February 2023: Submission to the Committee of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) ‘Draft General Comment on Persons with Disabilities in Situations of Risk and Humanitarian Emergencies (Article 11 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities)’. Available at: Joint ICHR/CDLP submission to the General Discussion on Article 11 of the CRPD.
- April 2021: Submission to the ‘Draft State Report on the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) in Regards to Disability in Direct Provision’ (with Dunbar R) (Irish Centre for Human Rights; 2021), available at:https://drive.google.com/file/d/1577cwdFr_qI3RmdEh2vF05zNsBPpIaw4/view
- February 2021: Submission to Minister O’ Gorman and Minister Rabbitte: ‘Vulnerability Assessment Tool and Disability in Direct Provision’. (Centre for Disability Law and Policy (CDLP) and Irish Centre for Human Rights (ICHR), NUI Galway), available at: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MnRMlLG6PQVC7-T9cr3QsR-bs9QV-fKa/view
- February 2021: ‘Submission to the ‘White Paper on Ending Direct Provision and the Vulnerability Assessment Tool and Disability in Direct Provision’. (Centre for Disability Law and Policy (CDLP) and Irish Centre for Human Rights), available at: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TOe_tUi-zxTyb8P-0fO-YyBU5zcxrPnb/view
- December 2020: Co-author:, Franet National Contribution to the Fundamental Rights Report 2021, Ireland. ICHR/ EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (with Angeleri S et al). available at: https://fra.europa.eu/sites/default/files/fra_uploads/frr2021_ireland-frr2021_en.pdf
- August 2020: ‘Submission to the United Nations Human Rights Council for List of Issues Prior to Reporting in Respect of Ireland’ (with Angeleri, S et al,) (Irish Centre for Human Rights), available at:https://tbinternet.ohchr.org/Treaties/CCPR/Shared%20Documents/IRL/INT_CCPR_ICO_IRL_42951_E.pdf
- December 2019; ‘Shadow Report submitted in response to Ireland’s Joint 5th to 9th Periodic Report to the United Nations Committee on the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (with Dr Darcy, S et al,) (Irish Centre for Human Rights: 4 November 2019) available at: https://tbinternet.ohchr.org/Treaties/CERD/Shared%20Documents/IRL/INT_CERD_NGO_IRL_38607_E.pdf
