Dr Aidan McGarry
Senior Lecturer
contact:
Applied Social Science
Falmer
Brighton
BN1 9PH
Telephone: +44 (0)1273 641957
Email: A.Mcgarry@brighton.ac.uk
Research interests
- Social movements
- Political representation of minorities
- Roma
- LGBT
- European Union
Background
Aidan completed his PhD thesis at Queen's University, Belfast in 2007 under the supervision of Prof. Antje Wiener. His thesis examined the political representation of Roma in the domestic (Hungary and Romania) as well as the transnational political contexts and asked whether those who claim to speak on behalf of Roma do so legitimately.
Previously Aidan worked in Brussels for a lobbying organisation and also for the European Centre for Minority Issues in Germany. Following his PhD Aidan worked as Research Associate at the University of Ulster on a project which examined the relationship between political parties and minority ethnic communities in Northern Ireland. He took up the post of Lecturer in Politics at the University of Brighton in September 2008. In December 2009, Aidan was awarded one of the faculty's Post-Doctoral Research Fellowships.
Teaching
Aidan teaches on the politics modules including 'What is Politics? Politics in Brighton', 'Political Ideas' and 'Comparative Politics'. He also contributes to various postgraduate programmes.
Publications
Korkut, U., Bucken-Knapp, G., McGarry, A., Hinnfors, J., and Drake, H. (2013) The Discourses and Politics of Migration in Europe. Palgrave Macmillan: New York.
McGarry, Aidan (2012) The dilemma of the European Union's Roma policy Critical Social Policy, 32 (1). pp. 126-136. ISSN 0261-0183
Gilligan, Chris, Hainsworth, Paul and McGarry, Aidan (2011) Fractures, foreigners and fitting in: exploring attitudes towards immigration and integration in 'post conflict' Northern Ireland Ethnopolitics, 10 (2). pp. 253-269. ISSN 1744-9057 (print); 1744-9065 (online)
McGarry, Aidan (2011) The Roma voice in the European Union: between national belonging and transnational identity Social Movement Studies, 10 (3). pp. 283-297. ISSN 1474-2837 (print); 1474-2829 (online)
McGarry, Aidan (2010) Who speaks for Roma? Political representation of a transnational minority community Continuum, New York . ISBN 13: 978-0-8264-2880-6; 10:0826428800
McGarry, Aidan (2009) Ambiguous nationalism? Explaining the parliamentary under-representation of Roma in Hungary and Romania Romani Studies, 19 (2). pp. 103-124. ISSN 1528-0748 (print); 1757-2274 (online)
Hainsworth, Paul, Gilligan, Chris and McGarry, Aidan (2009) Accommodating Diversity in Northern Ireland: Elected Representatives and Minority Ethnic Communities. In: Challenges of peace: research as a contribution to peace-building in Northern Ireland. Community Relations Council, Belfast, i-245. ISBN 978 1 898276 42 5
McGarry, Aidan (2009) Round Pegs in Square Holes: Integrating the Romani Community in Hungary In: Agarin, Timofey and Malte , Brosig, eds. Minority Integration in Central Eastern Europe: Between Ethnic Diversity and Equality. On the boundary of two worlds: identity, freedom, and moral imagination in the Baltics 18 . Rodopi , Amsterdam/New York. ISBN 978-90-420-2733-6
McGarry, Aidan (2008) Ethnic group identity and the Roma social movement: transnational organizing structures of representation Nationalities Papers, 36 (3). pp. 449-470. ISSN 0090-5992
Gilligan, Chris, Hainsworth, Paul and McGarry, Aidan (2008) Questions and answers: comparing the attitudes of elected representatives, political party supporters and the general public towards minority ethnic communities in Northern Ireland Shared Space (6). pp. 85-100. ISSN 978 189827639 5
McGarry, Aidan, Hainsworth, Paul and Gilligan, Chris (2008) Elected representatatives/political parties and minority ethnic communities in Northern Ireland University of Ulster, Belfast.
McGarry, Aidan (2008) Political participation and interest articulation of the Roma in Romania Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe (JEMIE), 7 (1). pp. 1-25. ISSN 1617-5247
McGarry, Aidan, Hainsworth, Paul and Gilligan, Chris (2008) Political parties and minority ethnic communities in Northern Ireland: election manifestos 1994-2007 Translocations: Irish Migration, Race and Social Transformation Review, 3 (1). pp. 106-132. ISSN 2008-0420
Decker, D. Christopher and McGarry, Aidan (2005) Enhancing minority governance in Romania. The Romanian draft law on the status of national minorities: issues of definition, NGO status, and cultural autonomy In: ECMI Roundtable for National Minority MPs and the Council of National Minorities, 17-19 March 2005, Sinaia, Romania.
