| Edition |
Second edition. |
| Descript |
viii, 257 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliog. |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 244-251) and index. |
| Contents |
Racism in Ireland -- Nation-building and exclusion -- Ireland and the Holocaust -- Refugees and asylum seekers -- The politics of traveller exclusion -- Legacies of anti-Traveller racism -- Racial nation, ethnic state -- Experiences of racism -- Responses to racism. |
| Summary |
An account of racism in twenty-first century Irish society and locates this in its historical, political, sociological, and policy contexts. It includes specific case studies of the experiences of racism in Ireland alongside a number of historical case studies that examine how modern Ireland came to marginalize ethnic minorities. Various chapters examine responses by the Irish state to Jewish refugees before, during and after the Holocaust, and to asylum seekers and Travellers. Other chapters examine Irish policy responses to racism. |
| Subject |
Racism -- Ireland.
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Social change -- Ireland.
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Ireland -- Race relations.
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Ireland -- Ethnic relations.
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Refugees -- Ireland -- Social conditions.
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Minorities -- Ireland -- Social conditions.
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Immigrants -- Ireland -- Social conditions.
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| ISBN |
0719086639 |
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9780719086632 |
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