Redefining the Nation through Economic Growth and Migration: Changing Rationalities of Governance in the Republic of Ireland?
Redefining the Nation through Economic Growth and Migration: Changing Rationalities of Governance in the Republic of Ireland?
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通过经济增长和移民重新定义国家:爱尔兰共和国治理理性的变化?
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2006
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B. Gray
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B. Gray
In an increasingly mobile world, territorially bounded notions of the nation are being rethought, but so are the rationalities of governing mobility and migration. Emigration has become a target of governance in new ways in recent years in the Republic of Ireland with specific implications of the governance of contemporary immigration. This article discusses how emigration has constituted the national ‘we’ in the past and present in order to show how familiar, if changing, relationships between emigration and the Irish nation are now being unsettled through the more contradictory juxtaposition of emigrants, immigrants and the national. The article questions the political potential of this destabilisation of national belonging in the context of neo‐liberal rationalities of governance at a distance, and argues that the interplay of pastoral and economic rationalities of migration governance offers Irish nationals continued economic prosperity without being disturbed by the proximity of the unfamiliar.