Archive for the ‘Citizenship, migration, race, and ethnicity’ Category
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006
Amidst the various debates on immigration in the United States, the issue of undocumented Irish immigrants adds an interesting angle. Much contemporary debate focuses on immigration from Latin America, and from the reactionary end is focused on issues such as cultural purity, language use, etc. It's also seen as a ...
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Monday, February 6th, 2006
This story from tomorrow's Irish Times points to a whole pile of interesting ethical issues:A divorced Irish man who married a woman from Ghana whom he met over the internet has brought a High Court challenge to the refusal of the Minister for Justice to permit his new wife entry ...
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Friday, July 15th, 2005
I've posted a number of pieces in recent months about the proposals for data retention in the EU, focusing on the fact that the Irish government was one of those proposing that retention be for up to three years, and also on the duplicitous nature of the government's representation of ...
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Monday, July 4th, 2005
Scríobh mé chuig RTE ag moladh go dtosnódh RnaG ag podcraoladh. Fuair mé r-phost inniú freagra inniu ag míniú nach mbeidh RTÉ nó RnaG ag podcraoladh mar:With regards to the podcast and mp3 issues we can't do it for legal reasons due with the copyrights of music on the shows ...
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Saturday, May 7th, 2005
Today's NYT has a fascinating article by Günter Grass about German national identity in the aftermath of the Second World War and the Nazi era and on to the post-unification present. It really is powerful stuff.
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Friday, May 6th, 2005
An interesting piece by Jay Rosen highlights the manner in which the press and broadcasting tend to have a national identity as opposed to, for example, literature where national boundaries aren't of overarching importance.
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Wednesday, April 20th, 2005
Labour Party TD Emmet Stagg has been pushing support for Irish emigrants for some time now - particularly those who went to the UK in the 1950s and are now nearing retirement, as this group is particularly vulnerable. Indeed Irish emigrants have the highest rate of homelessness of any group ...
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Tuesday, March 15th, 2005
It's a slightly out-of-the-way issue, but one I'm glad the Labour Party is addressing. Irish pensioners have a right to free travel on public transport, but people who have emigrated - and in particular those thousands who emigrated through economic necessity in the 1950s and earlier - are not eligible. ...
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Monday, March 14th, 2005
Interesting to catch, in Foinse, word of a 'campaign' by the Sun newspaper in Britain against what it is terming a 'gypsy invasion' but which is actually centred on members of the Irish Travelling community:In eagarfhocal an pháipéir le linn na seachtaine, dúradh nach raibh aon bhaint ag an bhfeachtas ...
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Thursday, March 10th, 2005
I'm wary of claims that it's the first in the world but the decision to declare Galway an anti-racist city - with resonances of the nuclear-free cities declared in yesteryear - is at least a positive move. For those who wondered what difference it would make for Labour to gain ...
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