Sociology: Recent submissions
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'All I have to do is dream?' Re-greening Irish integrationism
(2010)Contemporary Ireland had moved from the discovery ? during the 1997 European Year against Racism ? that racism is indeed an Irish problem, to euphemisms such as interculturalism, transculturalism, integration and cultural ... -
From Catastrophe to Marginalisation: The Experiences of Somali Refugees in Ireland
(Trinity Immigration Initiative, 2010-09)This report outlines the experiences of Somali refugees in Ireland and charts the main issues of concern, including migration, settlement, housing, education, the young generation. The report ends with a set of recommendations. -
The mirror stage of movement intellectuals? Jewish criticism of Israel and its relationship to a developing social movement
(2009)This article explores the strengths and limitations of movement intellectuals? theorisation of their movement and its terrain of activism. It looks at four published collections of Jewish writers critical of Israel and ... -
The Challenge of Migration: Schooling the Second Generation in Europe
(2010)In several European countries, 10% or more of the student population now has a migrant background; and some countries are facing this phenomenon for the very first time. There is growing concern that students with an ... -
The Evolving Role of Government: Migration and Education Trends in Europe
(EU Center of Excellence - Third Biannual Newsletter, 2010)On May 4, I was invited to speak at a conference on `Language Policy as a Tool for Integration: A Comparative Perspective?, cosponsored by the European Union Center and The Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Race, ... -
Theorising "Community"
(Blackhall, 2009)The story of community which is most familiar to sociologists, and probably also to most members of Irish society today, is that `community? and `modernity? are antithetical ideas. As modernisation progresses, community ... -
Multiculturalism after the Good Friday Agreement
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Constructing Identities: The ethno-national and nationalistic identities of white and Turkish students in two English secondary schools
(2008)This article investigates how 15-year-old white and Turkish students in two Inner London comprehensive schools, one in a predominantly working-class area (Millroad School) and the other in a more middle-class environment ... -
Teenage pregnancy, romantic love and social science - an uneasy relationship
(Blackwell, 1996)This chapter re-examines health services research on teenage pregnancy in the light of recent work in the sociology of emotion. I was prompted to write it because, having recently coordinated a study of teenage pregnancy, ... -
Introduction: Thinking Palestine
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Illegals in Ireland, Irish illegals: Diaspora nation as racial state
(Routledge, 2007)This article examines the discursive political reformulation of Ireland as 'diaspora nation', which, while explaining the narrowing of citizenship entitlement of non-citizen migrants resident in Ireland in the wake of the ... -
After Optimism? Ireland, Racism and Globalisation
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Femina sacra: Gendered memory and political violence
(Elsevier, 2006)This article explores a specific form of state sanctioned violence enacted towards survivors of Transnistria, Ukraine, using testimonies of women survivors of Transnistria. The article theorises the woman survivor of ... -
Ireland: Racial state and crisis racism?
(2007)This article theorises the state as central to the construction of racism in the Republic of Ireland, which, since the 1990s economic boom, has become an in-migration destination. State racism culminated in the 2004 ... -
Irishness and Racism: Towards an E Reader
(2006)The article is partly annotated bibliography, partly resource collection, partly review and partly programme of action on the nexus of racism, ethnicity and Irishness. As befits an e-journal, the article provides accessible ... -
From racial state to racist state? Racism and immigration in 21st century ireland
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Introduction: Speaking of Racism
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The memory of dispossession, dispossessing memory: Israeli networks remembering the Palestinian Nakba
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Migrant women's diasporic networks: Alternative narratives of globalisation
(Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007)
