Bashir Otukoya

Bashir Otukoya lectures in EU Law & International Asylum and Immigration Law. He is a PhD student in the UCD Sutherland School of Law and in the UCD School of Politics & International Relations. He holds a BAL and an LLB, as well as an LLM in Public Law. His current research focuses on citizenship, exploring the politico-legal process of becoming an Irish citizen (by naturalisation), and its influence on the sociological idea of being Irish and a citizen of the European Union. He has been a lecturer of law of the European Union and international asylum and immigration law at Griffith College Dublin since 2018. He is a member of the Irish Refugee Council and was recently made a member of the newly formed independent anti-racism committee.