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1. Pregnant silence: (En)gendering Ireland's asylum space

This article examines the gendered character of racial subjection and the rule of racial subjects in relation to the position of migrant mothers as the reproducers of future generations of Irish citizens

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In the wake of a new ruling on non-EU immigration into Ireland, Lentin makes a theoretical intervention by positing the gendering of Ireland's new migratory spaces via the bodies of asylum-seeking mothers. Employing David Theo Goldberg's concept of the 'racial state' and the two traditions of thinking about racial states, naturalism and historicism, she examines the gendered character more...

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Patterns of Prejudice, Vol: 37 Page: 301-302 2003
Ronit Lentin

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