Gerard Boucher
Contact Details
Room: L248 (Paisley Campus)
Tel: 0141 848 3667
E-mail: gerry.boucher@uws.ac.uk
Staff Profile
Gerard Boucher is a lecturer in Sociology at the University of the West of Scotland. He previously held lecturing posts at University College Dublin and Queen’s University Belfast, and was a Research Fellow at the Employment Research Centre in the Department of Sociology at Trinity College Dublin. He has worked on three European Commission research projects, and has been a member of the Migration, Diversity & Identities group in the European Thematic Network, HumanitarianNet since 2001. His research interests and publications have revolved around the topics of immigration and integration, equality and diversity, nationalism and national identity, employment and labour markets, social partnership, and education and economic development.
Teaching
Sociology & Global Society – year 2
Sociology of Work – year 3
Sociology of Migration – year 4
Recent Publications
“A Critique of Policy Discourses on Managing International Migration” (2008), Third World Quarterly, Vol. 29, 7, pp. 1461-71.
“Ireland’s Lack of an Integration Policy” (2008), Translocations, Vol. 3, 1, pp. 1-24.
“Rising or Falling to the Challenges of Diversity in Europe? Social Justice and Differentiated Citizenship” (2007), Social Policy Review 19, pp. 221-240 (with Eithne McLaughlin).
The New World of Work: Labour Markets in Contemporary Ireland (2005) (eds) Boucher, G. and Collins, G., Dublin: Liffey Press.
“Back to the Future? The Nice Referenda and the Persistence of Irish Discourses of Autonomy” (2004) in Finlay, A. (ed) Nationalism and Multiculturalism: Irish Identity, Citizenship and the Peace Process. Berlin & London: LIT Verlag, pp. 60-84.
“Training Cubs for the Celtic Tiger: The Volume Production of Technical Graduates in the Irish educational system”, Journal of Education and Work, Vol. 17, 4, pp. 377-395, December 2004 (with James Wickham).
“Land of Conditional Welcomes” (2004) in Corcoran, M. and Peillon, M. (eds) Place and Non-Place: The Reconfiguration of Ireland, Dublin: Institute of Public Administration, pp. 185-195.
“Tiers of Engagement by Universities in their Region’s Development”, Regional Studies, Vol. 37, 9, pp. 887-897, December 2003 (with Cheryl Conway and Els Van der Meer).
“Irish Neo-Liberal Corporatism: Having One’s Cake and Being Eaten Too?”, Review of Social Economy, Vol. 61, 3, pp. 295-316, September 2003 (with Grainne Collins).