Pregnant on Arrival Making the Illegal Immigrant

Name: Pregnant on Arrival Making the Illegal Immigrant
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ISBN: 9780816681006

ISBN-10: 0816681007

ISBN-13: 9780816681006

Edition: 2013

Authors: Eithne Luibhï¿½id

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“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 this…

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List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication date: 8/10/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 312
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 0.814
Language: English



A Note on Terminology


Introduction



Shifting Boundaries through Discourses of Childbearing



Counternarratives of Migration Law and Childbearing



Baby Gives Birth to Parents: Direct Provision and Subject Formation



The "Right to Life of the Unborn" and Migration Controls



Reproductive Futurism and the Temporality of Migration Control



From Childbearing to Multiple Sexuality and Migration Struggles


Conclusion


Acknowledgments


Notes


Index