Responding to the racialisation of irishness: Disavowed multiculturalism and its discontents

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Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2000, Pages

  Lentin, Ronit ^a  

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Author keywords

Emigration; Ethnic Minorities; Immigration; Irishness; Multiculturalism; Politics of Interrogation; Politics of Recognition; Racialisation; Racism

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EID: 33947227043     PISSN: 13607804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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