Migrant Activism and Integration from Below in Ireland [[electronic resource] /] / by Ronit Lentin, Elena Moreo

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910790467603321
• Autore: Lentin Ronit
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2012
• ISBN: 1-280-58474-2; 9786613614575; 0-230-36924-3
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2012.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (240 p.)
• Collana: Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship, , 2662-2602
• Classificazione: SOC008000SOC026000SOC007000SOC031000POL029000
• Disciplina: 304.8417; 305.9/0691209417; 305.90691209417
• Soggetti: Emigration and immigration; Social policy; Political sociology; Political communication; Political science; Medicine ; Health; Migration; Social Policy; Political Sociology; Political Communication; Political Science; Popular Science in Medicine and Health; Ireland Emigration and immigration Social aspects; Ireland Emigration and immigration Government policy; Ireland Ethnic relations; Ireland Race relations
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; 1 Introduction: Immigration in Ireland and Migrant-Led Activism; 2 Theorizing Migrant-Led Activism; 3 'There Is No Movement': A Brief History of Migrant-Led Activism in Ireland; 4 On Visibility and Invisibility: Migrant Practices between Regimes of Representation and Self-Determination; 5 Investing in Hope? Gendered Resistance and the Struggle of Migrant Women's Associations in Ireland; 6 Chinese-Led Migrant Activism beyond Invisibility: The Irish Chinese Sichuan Earthquake Appeal Committee; 7 Beyond Welcoming the Strangers: Migrant Integration Processes among Protestant Churches in Ireland8 The Horn of Africa People's Aid: Refugee Empowerment and New Forms of Neo-Liberal Rationality; 9 Conclusion: Integration from Below?; References; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This book analyzes the interaction between migrant activists and leaders and the state of the Republic of Ireland - a late player in Europe's immigration regime - against the background of an increasingly restrictive immigration regime.