Mannion, Maria
(1999)
Ireland: The Land of A Hundred Thousand Welcomes?
Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Ireland: An Examination of
the Ideological Mechanisms of Exclusion.
Masters thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth.
Abstract
Comprehensive and reliable statistics on refugees in Europe are
difficult to assemble. It is estimated, however, that between 1987 and 1997
that the number of refugees world-wide increased from 8 - 1 5 million. This
means on average that every 21 seconds a refugee is created. In 1938, the
American journalist Dorothy Thompson wrote that: “A whole nation o f people,
although they come from many nations, wanders the world, homeless except
for refuges which may at any moment prove to be temporary.” (Marrus 1985:
3). Unfortunately, these words are still applicable today. Few can deny that
there is now a refugee crisis.
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Thesis
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Ireland;
Refugees; Asylum Seekers; |
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Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology |
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5107 |
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IR eTheses
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04 Jul 2014 11:40 |
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