Nationals/non-nationals: immigration, citizenship and politics in the Republic of Ireland

Fanning, Bryan; Mutwarasibo, Fidele

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“…This was a call to conceptually enlarge the boundaries of the imagined Irish community (those entitled to citizenship). The aim here was defined as that of a 'challenge [to] essentialising views of immigrants and Irishness' (ibid., p. 21) in order to point to how those excluded can also be seen as increasingly intertwined within the Irish statist project (Lentin 2007, Fanning and Mutwarasibo 2007, Fanning 2009). The starting point for doing this, as already discussed, has been via an exploration specifically of the statist monopoly on understandings of political community with a view to deconstructing this.…”

Section: The Politics Of Sovereign Statehoodmentioning

confidence: 95%

“…Fanning (2007Fanning ( , 2009, in particular, argues, for example that concentrating on racism as the only underlying factor of the 2004 Citizenship Referendum as some people have done -by arguing that Ireland, previously a 'racial' state, turned upon the passing of the 2004 Citizenship Referendum into a 'racist' state (Lentin 2004a, Lentin and McVeigh 2006, Garner 2007) -is too simplistic. Instead, he suggests that the referendum might be better understood in terms of the role which nationalism has played as a concept which is bound up with processes of both exclusion and inclusion (see also Munck 2007, Fanning andMutwarasibo 2007).…”

Section: Theoretical Basis For Existing Analysis Of 2004 Citizenship mentioning

confidence: 97%

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Thinking citizenship and its constitutive subject: interrogating the 2004 Irish citizenship referendum debate

Mhurchú

2011

Citizenship Studies

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This article considers a referendum which was held in the Republic of Ireland in 2004 involving a proposal to qualify the existing universal constitutional entitlement to birthright citizenship. Existing analysis of this referendum reflects dominant trends in citizenship scholarship. It does so by framing the issue in terms of two opposing perspectives -one particularistic (exclusive) and one universalistic (inclusive) -and positing the question of the 'politics' of citizenship as a trade-off between these diverging models. This article argues, however, that Rob (R.B.J.) Walker's notion of the constituent subject of (sovereign) politics challenges this dualistic framework as the necessary starting point for discussions about citizenship. It does so by problematizing the premise upon which it is based which is the taken-for-granted autonomous existence of persons (individuals) who are understood to be connected to, but ultimately separate from, 'the state.' This article concludes with reflections on what an alternative framework for exploring citizenship (based specifically on a historicization of subjectivity in relation to sovereignty) might look like. It suggests that this provides us with a different starting point to the prevalent form of a timeless dialectic of inclusion and exclusion, particularism and universalism, polis and cosmopolis currently determined by the boundaries of the Irish state.

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Section: The Politics Of Sovereign Statehoodmentioning

confidence: 95%

Section: Theoretical Basis For Existing Analysis Of 2004 Citizenship mentioning

confidence: 97%

Thinking citizenship and its constitutive subject: interrogating the 2004 Irish citizenship referendum debate

Mhurchú

2011

Citizenship Studies

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“…5 The Italian way could be described as 'reasonable integration' (Zincone 2000) 6 while for Spain a practical philosophy of integration prevails (Zapata-Barrero 2010), based on the idea of mutual understanding and respect. Among the 'new' immigration countries, Ireland is an interesting case in our comparison where a mono-cultural and mono-religious self-understanding (linked to the ideology of Irishness and the centrality of Catholicism, respectively) seems to lead integration and citizenship policies in an exclusionary direction, as shown by the restrictive citizenship reform of 2004 (Fanning and Mutwarasibo 2007).…”

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Is There a North–South Divide in Integration Outcomes? A Comparison of the Integration Outcomes of Immigrants in Southern and Northern Europe

Cebolla‐Boado

Finotelli²

2015

Eur J Population

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Integration models are often viewed as a necessary tool for framing integration policies, and for measuring integration efficiency. While ''old'' European immigration countries in Europe account for a systematic framework of integration policies embedded in a given integration philosophy, new immigration countries (particularly Italy, Greece, Portugal and Spain) have lacked a coherent set of integration policies and practices and, it goes without saying, a philosophical approach to integration. This vacuum has often been seen as a source of marginalization and 'differential exclusion', suggesting the existence of a North-South divide in integration matters, and more importantly, outcomes. However, there is still a striking lack of appropriate comparative empirical evidence backing or dismissing this divide. The objective of this article is to explore national-level differences in the real performance of immigrants in selected European countries of immigration along key indicators of integration outcomes, including school attainment and labor market participation. We here discuss the position of Italy, Spain, Greece and Portugal as a coherent cluster of countries and compare the performance of their migrants with that of other foreign-born workers settled in the West of Europe. Our evidence provides little support for the idea that the Southern countries are a unique cluster and that they homogeneously lag behind in terms of integration outcomes.

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“…By contrast, Irishness falls into the background as a non‐category (Dwyer and Jones 2000), hiding the privilege afforded to Irish nationals in the education system. Fanning and Mutwarasibo (2007) and Boucher (2008) consider this an effective means of stratifying Ireland's citizenry based on social membership. By means of this stratification, Gray (2006, 13) argues that immigrants are legitimized as “matter out of place.” This sense of placelessness is perpetuated in the policy documents, which mobilize a simplistic view of localities as discrete and unitary entities in which intra‐local tensions and inequalities exist because of the lack of appropriate governance (Featherstone et al 2011).…”

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Accommodating all applicants? School choice and the regulation of enrolment in Ireland

Ledwith

Reilly

2013

Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes

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The politics of access are a central issue when considering education as both a process and product of socio‐demographic stratification. This article undertakes a two‐fold investigation of school choice in Ireland, first using data gathered during 2009–2010 as part of the Galway Education Survey (GES) to examine school choice practices on the ground. We then localize these findings in the discursive context of three Department of Education and Skills documents—the Audit of School Enrolment Policies by the Regional Offices Service (2007), the Letter to Education Partners on Enrolment Audit Follow‐up (2008), and the Discussion Paper on a Regulatory Framework for School Enrolment (2011). The analysis highlights the inequality of access for migrant students that exists as a result of current school enrolment practice and discusses the potential for developing future arrangements that support inclusive, transparent, and fair enrolment policies.

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Nationals/non-nationals: immigration, citizenship and politics in the Republic of Ireland

Cited by 50 publications

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Thinking citizenship and its constitutive subject: interrogating the 2004 Irish citizenship referendum debate

Thinking citizenship and its constitutive subject: interrogating the 2004 Irish citizenship referendum debate

Is There a North–South Divide in Integration Outcomes? A Comparison of the Integration Outcomes of Immigrants in Southern and Northern Europe

Accommodating all applicants? School choice and the regulation of enrolment in Ireland

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