Pregnant on arrival : making the illegal immigrant

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Luibhéid, Eithne, Author.

Luibhâeid, Eithne, Author.

Series:

Difference Incorporated Series

Difference incorporated Pregnant on arrival

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women immigrants--Social conditions--Ireland.

Women immigrants.

Pregnant women--Legal status, laws, etc--Ireland.

Pregnant women.

Political refugees--Legal status, laws, etc--Ireland.

Political refugees.

Women--Sexual Behavior--Ireland.

Women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (310 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] University of Minnesota Press 2013

Language Note:

English

Summary:

From 1997 to 2004, Ireland's headlines recast pregnant immigrants as "illegals" entering the country to gain legal residency through childbirth. Eithne Luibhéid offers unvarnished insight into how categories of immigrant legal status emerge and change, how sexual regimes figure in these processes, and how efforts to prevent illegal immigration redefine nationalist sexual norms and associated racial, gender, economic, and geopolitical hierarchies.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

A Note on Terminology

Introduction

1. Shifting Boundaries through Discourses of Childbearing

2. Counternarratives of Migration Law and Childbearing

3. Baby Gives Birth to Parents: Direct Provision and Subject Formation

4. The "Right to Life of the Unborn" and Migration Controls

5. Reproductive Futurism and the Temporality of Migration Control

6. From Childbearing to Multiple Sexuality and Migration Struggles

Conclusion

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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ISBN:

0-8166-8540-1

OCLC:

857604754