Archive for the ‘Citizenship, migration, race, and ethnicity’ Category

RTÉ television for Irish emigrants in UK?

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 ...

Extending free travel to Irish emigrants

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. ...

Sun in anti-Traveller rant

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 ...

Galway to be declared anti-racist city

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 ...

Farm workers gain victory in struggle with Taco Bell

Wednesday, March 9th, 2005

Just before Pete Tridish's talk to the participatory media reading group yesterday I got word over Prometheus's Stubblefield list that:In a precedent-setting move, fast-food industry leader Taco Bell Corp., a division of Yum! Brands (NYSE: YUM), has agreed to work with the Florida-based farm worker organization, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW), to ...

Former Sandinista minister refused US visa - branded as terrorist - can’t accept Harvard visiting professorship

Friday, March 4th, 2005

You can't say the Bushies don't have long memories

GEO and visa reform

Friday, February 11th, 2005

The GEO (my union) is campaigning on visa-immigration reform, specifically the ability of students to travel in and out of the country. As they say:visa restrictions and lengthy security checks have created an increasingly difficult situation for international students, post-doctoral scholars, and other academics studying and working in the United ...

Alabamans refuse to remove segregation from constitution - still

Monday, November 29th, 2004

This is what a Red State looks like.

The gypsy holocaust

Sunday, November 28th, 2004

The Guardian have a touching article on the Gypsy holocaust, based on an interview with a survivor who is the author of a forthcoming book on the topic.

MDH on citizenship

Tuesday, May 18th, 2004

Michael D Higgins' speech launching Labour's campaign against the referendum on citizenship is inspiring and informative - closing with the much quoted "I cannot accept that it is desirable or just to introduce a change that will determine that two children, born in the same maternity ward on the same ...