M IGRATIONS
IRISH SOCIETY
The Irish Society series provides a critical, interdisciplinary and in-depth analysis of Ireland that reveals the processes and forces shaping social, economic, cultural and political life, and their outcomes for communities and social groups. The books seek to understand the evolution of social, economic and spatial relations from a broad range of perspectives, and explore the challenges facing Irish society in the future given present conditions and policy instruments.
S ERIES EDITOR
Rob Kitchin
ALREADY PUBLISHED
Public private partnerships in Ireland: Failed experiment
or the way forward for the state? Rory Hearne
Youth policy, civil society and the modern Irish state
Fred Powell, Martin Geoghegan, Margaret Scanlon and Katharina Swirak
M IGRATIONS
Ireland in a global world
Edited by Mary Gilmartin and Allen White
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Series editors foreword
Over the past twenty years Ireland has undergone enormous social, cultural and economic change. From a poor, peripheral country on the edge of Europe with a conservative culture dominated by tradition and Church, Ireland transformed into a global, cosmopolitan country with a dynamic economy. At the heart of the processes of change was a new kind of political economic model of development that ushered in the so-called Celtic Tiger years, accompanied by renewed optimism in the wake of the ceasefires in Northern Ireland and the peace dividend of the Good Friday Agreement. As Ireland emerged from decades of economic stagnation and The Troubles came to a peaceful end, the island became the focus of attention for countries seeking to emulate its economic and political miracles. Every other country, it seemed, wanted to be the next Tiger, modelled on Irelands successes. And then came the financial collapse of 2008, the bursting of the property bubble, bank bailouts, austerity plans, rising unemployment and a return to emigration. From being the paradigm case of successful economic transformation, Ireland has become an internationally important case study of what happens when an economic model goes disastrously wrong.
The Irish Society series provides a critical, interdisciplinary and in-depth analysis of Ireland that reveals the processes and forces shaping social, economic, cultural and political life, and their outcomes for communities and social groups. The books seek to understand the evolution of social, economic and spatial relations from a broad range of perspectives, and explore the challenges facing Irish society in the future given present conditions and policy instruments. The series examines all aspects of Irish society including, but not limited to: social exclusion, identity, health, welfare, life cycle, family life and structures, labour and work cultures, spatial and sectoral economy, local and regional development, politics and the political system, government and governance, environment, migration and spatial planning. The series is supported by the Irish Social Sciences Platform (ISSP), an all-island platform of integrated social science research and graduate education focusing on the social, cultural and economic transformations shaping Ireland in the twenty-first century. Funded by the Programme for Research in Third Level Institutions, the ISSP brings together leading social science academics from all of Irelands universities and other third-level institutions.
Given the marked changes in Irelands fortunes over the past two decades it is important that rigorous scholarship is applied to understand the forces at work, how they have affected different people and places in uneven and unequal ways, and what needs to happen to create a fairer and prosperous society. The Irish Society series provides such scholarship.
Rob Kitchin
Contents
Delphine Ancien is a Lecturer and Researcher at the School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Policy at University College Dublin and a Research Administrator for the Research Evaluation Policy and Practice (REPP) project at the Childhood Development Initiative in Tallaght West, Dublin, Ireland. She completed a PhD in Geography at the Ohio State University in 2008. She has recently completed a collaborative project investigating statediaspora relations in various national contexts and the development of diaspora strategies.
Mark Boyle is Professor of Geography at the National University of Ireland Maynooth. His research interests include the development of diaspora strategy and, relatedly, the experience of Irish in the west of Scotland and Scots in Ireland. His book, Metropolitan Anxieties, was published by Ashgate in 2011.
Fina Carpena-Mndez is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Oregon State University. She completed a PhD in Anthropology (2006) at the University of California Berkeley. Her research examines the effects of neoliberal globalization on the condition of childrens lives in the contemporary world, with particular reference to Latin America (Mexico and Brazil), the USA and Europe (Ireland and Spain).
Liam Coakley is Head of Interdisciplinary Programme MA in Contemporary Migration and Diaspora Studies at University College Cork. His research interests include migration policy, transnationalism and the politics of integration in Ireland. He has published in Irish Geography, Geography and International Migration and has produced research reports for a range of statutory and non-statutory organizations, for example the Immigrant Council of Ireland, Integrating Ireland, the International Organization for Migration and the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs.
Deirdre Conlon is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Urban Studies, Saint Peters College in Jersey City, New Jersey. Among her current projects is an Economic and Social Research Council-funded comparative study of asylum advocacy and activism sectors in the USA and UK; in this work Deirdres focus is the emotional spaces, politics and effects of migrant advocacy work. She has published articles in
