Camilla Devitt
Assistant Professor
Sociology
Trinity College Dublin
Ireland
Biography
Camilla Devitt is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Director of the Migration and Employment Research Centre. She obtained her PhD in political and social sciences from the European University Institute (EUI), Florence in 2010. She teaches political sociology, economic sociology, race, ethnicity and identity and European societies at TCD. Her main research interests are immigration, welfare states and labour markets in Western Europe. She is a Principal Investigator in the Norface funded 'The Paradox of Health State Futures' project (April 2015-March 2018). Significant recent publications include: (2015) Mothers or Migrants? Labour Supply Policies in Ireland 1997-2007, Social Politics doi:10.1093/sp/jxv04; (2014) "Government Responses to Foreign Worker Demand During Economic Crises The Cases of Britain and France 2008-2013" Comparative Migration Studies, 2, (4): p445 - 467; (2012) "The Rosarno Revolt: towards political mobilization for immigrants?" Chapter 9 in Much Ado About Nothing? Italian Politics Volume 26 edited by Elisabetta Gualmini and Eleonora Pasotti, New York: Berghahn Books; (2011) "Varieties of Capitalism, Variation in Labour Migration" Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 37(4): 579-97.
Research Interest
Sociology
Publications
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Camilla Devitt, Circular migration between Italy and Morocco: a case study, Florence, European University Institute, 2011
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Camilla Devitt, The governance of labour immigration in the UK, Turin, FIERI, 2012
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Camilla Devitt, The governance of labour immigration in France, Turin, FIERI, 2012
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The Rosarno revolt: toward political mobilization for immigrants? in, editor(s)Elisabetta Gualmini and Eleonora Pasotti , Italian Politics 2011 edition , New York, Berghahn Books, 2012, [Camilla Devitt]
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Ireland in, editor(s)Ruby Gropas and Anna Triandafyllidou , European Immigration A Sourcebook, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2013, [Camilla Devitt ]
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Ireland in, editor(s)Urso, G Schuster, A , Migration, Employment and Labour Market Integration Policies in the European Union , Brussels, IOM, 2013, [Devitt, Camilla & Murphy, Esther]
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Circular economic migration between Italy and Morocco in, editor(s)Anna Triandafyllidou , Circular Migration Between Europe and its Neighbourhood: Choice or Necessity?, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2013, [Camilla Devitt]
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Camilla Devitt, Labour immigration policy in Britain and France: seeking functional alternatives? , 2014
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Camilla Devitt, Government Responses to Foreign Worker Demand During Economic Crises The Cases of Britain and France 2008-2013, Comparative Migration Studies, 2, (4), 2014, p445 - 467
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Camilla Devitt, Managing Labour Migration in Times of Crisis - The UK Case, Singapore, Migration/Integration EU-Asia Dialogue, 2014
