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Pregnant on Arrival: Making the Illegal Immigrant

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Description for Pregnant on Arrival: Making the Illegal Immigrant Paperback. Series: Difference Incorporated. Num Pages: 304 pages, 5 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JJPR; 3JMC; DSB; JFSJ1; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 143 x 18. Weight in Grams: 376.

“State alert as pregnant asylum seekers aim for Ireland.” “Country Being Held Hostage by Con Men, Spongers, and Those Taking Advantage of the Maternity Residency Policy.” From 1997 to 2004, headlines such as these dominated Ireland’s mainstream media as pregnant immigrants were recast as “illegals” entering the country to gain legal residency through childbirth. As immigration soared, Irish media and politicians began to equate this phenomenon with illegal immigration that threatened to destroy the country’s social, cultural, and economic fabric.

Pregnant on Arrival explores how pregnant immigrants were made into paradigmatic figures of illegal immigration, as well as the measures ... Read more

Pregnant on Arrival offers unvarnished insight into how categories of immigrant legal status emerge and change, how sexual regimes figure prominently in these processes, and how efforts to prevent illegal immigration ultimately redefine nationalist sexual norms and associated racial, gender, economic, and geopolitical hierarchies.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Series
Difference Incorporated
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816681006
SKU
V9780816681006
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Ref
99-1

About Eithne Luibheid
Eithne Luibhéid is associate professor of gender and women’s studies at the University of Arizona. She is the author of Entry Denied: Controlling Sexuality at the Border and coeditor of Queer Migrations: Sexuality, U.S. Citizenship, and Border Crossings, both published by the University of Minnesota Press.

Reviews for Pregnant on Arrival: Making the Illegal Immigrant
Eithne Luibhéid exquisitely details how the Irish became embroiled in a politics over the sexuality and reproduction of mainly African refugees, leading to the controversial referendum denying birthright citizenship. Pregnant on Arrival is the story of a nation of emigrants that suddenly finding itself a nation of immigrants, with a wealth of insights for anyone interested in how the law ... Read more

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