Critical geographies of citizenship and belonging in Ireland

White, Allen; Gilmartin, Mary

doi:10.1016/j.wsif.2008.08.004

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“…There have also been attempts to restrict the mobility of pregnant women traveling to Ireland, labeled "citizenship tourists" by an Irish government minister (White and Gilmartin 2008, 393). A series of Supreme Court decisions and the Twenty-seventh Amendment to the Constitution (known as the Citizenship Referendum, passed in 2004) reorganized Irish citizenship around the principle of bloodline rather than place of birth (see White and Gilmartin 2008). The change in citizenship law was framed as a means of preventing pregnant women from traveling to Ireland with the express purpose of obtaining Irish citizenship for their soon-to-be born children.…”

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Interrogating Medical Tourism: Ireland, Abortion, and Mobility Rights

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2011

Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society

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Interrogating Medical Tourism: Ireland, Abortion, and Mobility Rights

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2011

Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society

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“…Ireland provides an explicit example of the use of citizenship as a marker of exclusion. There, in 2004, the basis of citizenship was changed as a response to the perceived threat of so‐called ‘citizenship tourists’– pregnant women who came to Ireland to give birth to their children (White and Gilmartin forthcoming). Other examples are perhaps less explicit, but similarly serve to mark the difference between the citizen and the less‐than citizen.…”

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Migration, Identity and Belonging

Gilmartin

2008

Geography Compass

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The study of migration within geography takes a variety of forms. While geographers traditionally studied push and pull factors in migration, this approach was challenged for its reliance on quantitative methods and its emphasis on economic factors. New approaches to the study of migration in geography have thus incorporated qualitative techniques and focused on migrant identities and migrant subjectivities. They have also provided new theorizations of the relationship between mobility and belonging, particularly through the concepts of transnationalism and translocalism, and through scales of belonging that range from citizenship to the home. Despite claims of the demise of the nation-state under globalization, the role of the nation-state in regulating migration and migrants, and in managing and policing borders, highlights its ongoing importance. Similarly, the potential centrality of place to the ongoing study of migration is highlighted by recent research on cities and regions. This foregrounds the negotiated and mutable nature of place in the context of transformations at a variety of interconnected scales.

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“…If not as a synonym of identity, belonging is used as a synonym of or in association with the notion of citizenship, once again in a more or less explicit way and without any attempt to define in which sense belonging might be different from citizenship (and identity). Examples of this usage equally abound among geographers (Ho 2006, 2009; White and Gilmartin 2008; Winders 2007), sociologists (Clark 2009; McNevin 2006; Wong 2007), anthropologists (Getrich 2008; Rosaldo 1994), political scientists (Clark 2009; Hampshire 2005; Mason 2000; Varsanyi 2005), jurists (Bhabha 1999; Kaplan 1993), and also historians (Fahrmeir and Jones 2008). In other cases again, belonging is evoked in association with both (national) identity and citizenship, without any attempt, once more, to discuss its theoretical or analytical specifics.…”

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Searching for Belonging – An Analytical Framework

2010

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Citation: ANTONSICH, M., 2010. Searching for belonging: an analytical framework. Geography Compass, 4 (6), pp.644-659. Additional Information:• This is the accepted version of the article, which has been published in AbstractBelonging is a notion both vaguely-defined and ill-theorized. Scholars in various social disciplines often take this notion for granted, as if its meaning is somewhat selfexplanatory. Others tend to equate it with the notion of identity, citizenship, or both.By relying on a critical reading of an extensive literature across academic disciplines, this article aims to offer an analytical framework for the study of belonging. I argue that belonging should be analyzed both as a personal, intimate, feeling of being 'at home' in a place (place-belongingness) and as a discursive resource which constructs, claims, justifies, or resists forms of socio-spatial inclusion/exclusion (politics of belonging). The risk of focusing only on one of these two dimensions is to fall in the trap of either a socially de-contextualized individualism or an all-encompassing social(izing) discourse. The open question is whether the increasing cultural and ethnic diversification of contemporary societies can lead to the formation of communities of belonging beyond communities of identity.

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Critical geographies of citizenship and belonging in Ireland

Cited by 18 publications

References 26 publications

Interrogating Medical Tourism: Ireland, Abortion, and Mobility Rights

Interrogating Medical Tourism: Ireland, Abortion, and Mobility Rights

Migration, Identity and Belonging

Searching for Belonging – An Analytical Framework

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