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Trained in comparative politics, modern languages, and public health, Patrick Ireland arrived at Illinois Tech in Fall 2007 from the American University of Beirut. He has also taught at the University of Denver and Georgia Tech, as well as for shorter stints in Germany and Ghana and as a Fulbright Senior Scholar in Rabat, Morocco. His teaching repertoire includes courses on comparative politics (Africa and Europe), ethnic relations, global health, and global migration.

Employing both qualitative and quantitative methods, Ireland has written extensively on urban-level migrant integration in developed and developing countries, female migrant domestic workers, and cultural policy and the cultural and creative economy. His work has been based on extensive field work undertaken in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and North America and has been supported by the American Institute of Indian Studies, American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies, American Political Science Association, Chateaubriand Fellowship Program, Council of American Overseas Research Centers, Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, European Commission, Fulbright-Hays Program (India), Fulbright Senior Scholar Program (Morocco), German Marshall Fund of the United States, Krupp Foundation, Gouvernement du Québec, Rockefeller Foundation, Social Science Research Council, and Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (South Africa).

Ireland has served as a consultant to the U.S. Department of Education; as a manuscript reviewer for a number of academic journals and university presses; as a Senior Research Associate with the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at the University of California-San Diego; as an advisory board member of the Centre for European Political Communications at the University of Leeds in England, the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs in Lebanon, and the EU-funded Multicultural Democracy and Immigrants’ Social Capital in Europe (MULTIDEM) Project; and as a participant in the Securitization of Migrant Mobilization (SOMI) project financed by the Université Paris Sorbonne Cité through the Agence Nationale de la Recherche in France.

Ireland is currently working on research that deals with how West African migrants negotiate urban spaces in African and Southern European cities and how migration-driven diversity has been affecting European and North American health systems.

Education

Ph.D., Harvard University, Political Science 
M.A., Harvard University, Political Science 
M.P.H., University of Texas, Public Health 
B.A., University of Notre Dame, Modern Languages and Political Science (summa cum laude)

Research Interests

The future of cities

Migrants and cities in Europe, North America, Africa, and Australasia

Migration and health

Female migrant domestic workers

Tourism and cultural policy

Professional Affiliations & Memberships

Fellow, Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study

Publications

Most Recent Publications

“Diamonds in the Rust? Economic/Industrial Transformation in Four Medium-Sized Midwestern U.S. Cities,” Moving the Social: Journal of Social History and the History of Social Movements, Vol. 73 (December 2024): 17-44.

“La vague celtique, Cultural Heritage, and the Creative Economy in Rural Southern Québec,” Québec Studies, Vol. 75, No. 1 (June 2023): 199-222.

“Migration, Diversity, and the Welfare State: Moving Beyond Attitudes,” in Markus M. L. Crepaz, ed., Handbook on Migration and Welfare (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2022), pp. 64-85.

“Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Migration in Sub-Saharan Africa,” in Robert A. Denemark, ed., International Studies Encyclopedia, Vol. 3 (Oxford: Oxford University Press & International Studies Association, February 2021).

“A Mixed-Method Study Comparing Migrant Integration Outcomes in Five Global Cities,” SAGE Research Methods Cases: Politics and International Relations (London: SAGE Publications, 2019).

“The Limits of Sending-State Power: The Philippines, Sri Lanka, and Female Migrant Domestic Workers,” International Political Science Review, Vol. 39, No. 3 (2018), pp. 322-337 – reprinted in Yoshikazu Shiobara et al., ed., Migration Policies in Asia (New Delhi: SAGE Publications, 2019).

Migrant Integration in Times of Economic Crisis: Comparing Policy Responses from European and North American Global Cities (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017).

Projects

West African Migrants in Urban Spaces: Dakar, Tangier, Barcelona

Explaining the Indian State's Policy Response to Female Migrant Domestic Workers

Migration and Urban Revival in the (Post-)Industrial U.S. Midwest

Expertise

Urban politics and policy

Migration and migrant integration

African politics

European politics

Cultural policy

Mixed-methods research