Paradoxes of diaspora, global identity and human rights
The deportation of Nigerians in Ireland
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12915616 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Elisa Joy White (0009-0005-7466-2642, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 67-83 |
| Publication date | 2008-12-11 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | African and Black Diaspora An International Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1752-8631 • E-ISSN: 1752-864X |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17528630802513474 |
| OpenAlex | W1991006322 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 13 |
This article examines the contemporary reversal and rupture of the Nigerian diasporic flow to Ireland through the circumstances of deportation; emphasizing the utility of deportations in the discursive context of national identity, global standing, human rights and racism. Through an examination of the unique relationship between the Nigerian and Irish diasporas, it is argued that the state-level discourse and public policy regarding the deportation of Nigerian migrants in Ireland highlight the presence of ‘parallel’ and ‘catalytic’ diasporas that form what can be considered paradoxes of diaspora. The article also maintains that deportations: 1) facilitate the proliferation of national racisms and human rights violations through the legitimating mechanisms of international law; 2) expose the attempt at insuring a national Irish identity that is racialized as White; 3) bring into sharp relief the simultaneous determination of Nigeria to secure a reputation as democratic and Ireland to preserve its standing as a philanthropic and benevolent nation in the global arena and; 4) highlight the post-national significance of diasporic belonging in a contemporary global context
Context (archaeology · Democracy · Deportation · Diaspora · Globalization · Human rights · Identity (music · Immigration · Irish · National identity · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Racism · Sociology · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · History · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration
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I don’t want to have a separated home’
The Insistence of Blackness and the Persistence of Antiblackness in Ireland
Adjusting 'our notions of the nature of the State
Strangers, indigenes and settlers
Ireland of the welcomes’? racism and anti-racism in nineteenth-century Ireland
The case of Biafra
A moral insurrection’
The colonial legacy
Defining Irish Nationalist Anti-Imperialism
Pregnant silence
Conflict and Consensus
Cartographies of Diaspora
The Flexible Developmental State
Globalization, 'New Tigers,' and the End of the Developmental State? The Case of the Celtic Tiger
Human Rights in a Globalizing World
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,36 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2026 (15) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |