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This chapter draws on Elias’s established–outsider model to understand the steep power relation b... more This chapter draws on Elias’s established–outsider model to understand the steep power relation between the Irish State and asylum seekers, as well as supplementing this with Bourdieu’s work on the state. Elias has forcefully argued that a power relation is determined by the interrelation and function that one individual or group has for the other. In this case, asylum seekers need states in a way that states do not need asylum seekers. The chapter argues that the Irish State’s treatment of immigration has historically been determined by three criteria: a question of costs and benefits, questions of ethno-national, and security and social order considerations. The contemporary manifestation of the skewered power relation between the State and asylum seekers will be discussed with reference to the Direct Provision and Dispersal system. This institution, set up in 2000, and heavily criticised from the outset, is the current system through which asylum seekers are housed and their subs...
IRISH JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY, 2006
... 15.1, 2006, pp. 106–124 106 On Empire and its instantiations STEVE LOYAL University College D... more ... 15.1, 2006, pp. 106–124 106 On Empire and its instantiations STEVE LOYAL University College Dublin Michael Mann, Incoherent Empire. ... Rather than attacking American foreign policy simply on moral grounds, Mann outlines the actually existing powers available to the USA. ...
Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews, 2014
ABSTRACT Since the 2001 'race riots' in the north of England, and the 7/7 London ... more ABSTRACT Since the 2001 'race riots' in the north of England, and the 7/7 London bombings, Britain has appeared to reject multiculturalism. It has instead prioritized a new policy of 'Community Cohesion' that calls for a focus on common needs and shared British identity, rather than on ethnic and religious differences. This has proved a controversial agenda, apparently downplaying the reality of racism and ethnic diversity, and leading to one critic calling it 'the death of multiculturalism'. Little evidence has emerged so far on what Community Cohesion actually represents, but this book addresses that deficit by drawing on empirical research around work with young people to analyse the meaning and practice of British Community Cohesion policies, youth identities in racially-tense areas, and government's attempts to 'prevent violent extremism' amongst young Muslims. It concludes that Community Cohesion is a new phase of multiculturalism, not its death.
The Sociology of Norbert Elias, 2004
Norbert Elias has been described as a great sociologist and over recent years there has been a st... more Norbert Elias has been described as a great sociologist and over recent years there has been a steady upsurge of interest in his work. Yet despite the fact that he was active for nearly sixty years from the 1920s to the 1960s it was only in the 1980s that English ...
State Power and Asylum Seekers in Ireland
There is an inherent dualism and ambiguity at the centre of modern citizenship that can be traced... more There is an inherent dualism and ambiguity at the centre of modern citizenship that can be traced back to its origins in the French Revolution (Castles and Davidson 2000; Joppke 2008). The revolution gave birth to the modern democratic nation-state, in theory representing the will and interests of the people. Citizenship provided an expanding stratum of the population with equal legal and political rights, which were subsequently, over many years, extended to social rights (Marshall 1950). The linking of rights and civic responsibilities, on the one hand, to membership of a political community, on the other, was a profoundly radical idea that challenged principles of hierarchical privilege that structured traditional societies. The expansionary and universalist aspect of citizenship and statehood derived from what Karl Mannheim referred to as a ‘natural law thought-style’ (Mannheim 1986). But in so far as citizenship requires selection and a discriminatory concept of membership, this radical equalitarian impulse was simultaneously married to a conservative exclusionary principle. Membership units defined at scales below humanity as such necessarily engender unavoidable limits to a universalist, Kantian conception of rights. ‘Citizen’ rights are by definition not ‘human’ rights. As we argued above (see Figs. 2.1, 2.2, and 2.3; Chap. 2), the disembedding of individuals from the place-bound, subsistence livelihoods and feudal hierarchies also engenders new forms of dependence on the abstract functioning of the market and state. In this way citizenship embodies a peculiar and contradictory mix of both inclusionary universalism and exclusionary particularism, egalitarianism and hierarchy, sameness and difference, and natural law and conservative thought-styles.
Norbert Elias, 1897-1990 Note on the text Preface by Norbert Elias An essay on time Textual varia... more Norbert Elias, 1897-1990 Note on the text Preface by Norbert Elias An essay on time Textual variants Bibliography Index.
Until very recently, debate about immigration policies in Ireland has focussed on questions of wh... more Until very recently, debate about immigration policies in Ireland has focussed on questions of who, how many and what kinds of migrants can come. In Ireland, we are now seeing a shift in the discussion to concerns about how people can ‘integrate’ into an increasingly diverse Irish society. We are beginning to consider what our integration policies and framework should focus on. We are starting to realise that, when immigrants settle in a country, they have to find opportunities to ‘belong’ and participate in that country. We realise that this is as true in the practical sense (for example, in relation to employment) as in the social, political, and cultural sense. The Immigrant Council of Ireland (ICI) has been working directly with migrants in accessing their social and legal rights since our inception. Through our work, we see the barriers that migrants face in relation to economic, social, political and cultural integration in Ireland. We see on a daily basis how our immigration ...
At least in theory, in modern Western states, there is a deep and intrinsic relation between (mor... more At least in theory, in modern Western states, there is a deep and intrinsic relation between (more or less regulated) market capitalism and the principles of political liberalism. Such principles include universal suffrage, the protection of civil and political rights, political pluralism, the separation of powers, a division between the public and private, adherence to the rule of law, the protection of private property, a commitment to freedom of conscience and religion, an ontological commitment to individual freedom, and a practical commitment to freedoms of movement, occupational choice, speech and thought, cultural worldview, and political expression. With regard to the infrastructure and capacity of the state, a complex array of institutions and practices function to safeguard and balance these (often conflicting) freedoms. However, there is often a gulf between such underlying operating principles and their modus operandi in the face of particular problems. Liberal democrati...
Historical Social Research, 2020
Os primeiros trabalhos de Bourdieu sobre a Argelia foram surpreendentemente negligenciados, em gr... more Os primeiros trabalhos de Bourdieu sobre a Argelia foram surpreendentemente negligenciados, em grande parte por causa de qualquer discussao sobre os conceitos-chaves que mais tarde definiriam seu trabalho: habitus , capital e campo. No entanto, este trabalho, que fundamentalmente moldaria seu trabalho subsequente, desenvolveu relatos iniciais, embora nao desenvolvidos, sobre colonialismo, racismo e migracao. Este artigo argumentara que a discussao de Bourdieu sobre o colonialismo em seus primeiros trabalhos, juntamente com os argumentos desenvolvidos por seu aluno e co-autor, Abdelmalek Sayad, fornecem o inicio de uma base para a compreensao dos processos contemporaneos de dominacao e migracao. Palavras-chave: Bourdieu pos-colonial; colonialismo; migracao
This chapter draws on Elias’s established–outsider model to understand the steep power relation b... more This chapter draws on Elias’s established–outsider model to understand the steep power relation between the Irish State and asylum seekers, as well as supplementing this with Bourdieu’s work on the state. Elias has forcefully argued that a power relation is determined by the interrelation and function that one individual or group has for the other. In this case, asylum seekers need states in a way that states do not need asylum seekers. The chapter argues that the Irish State’s treatment of immigration has historically been determined by three criteria: a question of costs and benefits, questions of ethno-national, and security and social order considerations. The contemporary manifestation of the skewered power relation between the State and asylum seekers will be discussed with reference to the Direct Provision and Dispersal system. This institution, set up in 2000, and heavily criticised from the outset, is the current system through which asylum seekers are housed and their subs...
IRISH JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY, 2006
... 15.1, 2006, pp. 106–124 106 On Empire and its instantiations STEVE LOYAL University College D... more ... 15.1, 2006, pp. 106–124 106 On Empire and its instantiations STEVE LOYAL University College Dublin Michael Mann, Incoherent Empire. ... Rather than attacking American foreign policy simply on moral grounds, Mann outlines the actually existing powers available to the USA. ...
Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews, 2014
ABSTRACT Since the 2001 'race riots' in the north of England, and the 7/7 London ... more ABSTRACT Since the 2001 'race riots' in the north of England, and the 7/7 London bombings, Britain has appeared to reject multiculturalism. It has instead prioritized a new policy of 'Community Cohesion' that calls for a focus on common needs and shared British identity, rather than on ethnic and religious differences. This has proved a controversial agenda, apparently downplaying the reality of racism and ethnic diversity, and leading to one critic calling it 'the death of multiculturalism'. Little evidence has emerged so far on what Community Cohesion actually represents, but this book addresses that deficit by drawing on empirical research around work with young people to analyse the meaning and practice of British Community Cohesion policies, youth identities in racially-tense areas, and government's attempts to 'prevent violent extremism' amongst young Muslims. It concludes that Community Cohesion is a new phase of multiculturalism, not its death.
The Sociology of Norbert Elias, 2004
Norbert Elias has been described as a great sociologist and over recent years there has been a st... more Norbert Elias has been described as a great sociologist and over recent years there has been a steady upsurge of interest in his work. Yet despite the fact that he was active for nearly sixty years from the 1920s to the 1960s it was only in the 1980s that English ...
State Power and Asylum Seekers in Ireland
There is an inherent dualism and ambiguity at the centre of modern citizenship that can be traced... more There is an inherent dualism and ambiguity at the centre of modern citizenship that can be traced back to its origins in the French Revolution (Castles and Davidson 2000; Joppke 2008). The revolution gave birth to the modern democratic nation-state, in theory representing the will and interests of the people. Citizenship provided an expanding stratum of the population with equal legal and political rights, which were subsequently, over many years, extended to social rights (Marshall 1950). The linking of rights and civic responsibilities, on the one hand, to membership of a political community, on the other, was a profoundly radical idea that challenged principles of hierarchical privilege that structured traditional societies. The expansionary and universalist aspect of citizenship and statehood derived from what Karl Mannheim referred to as a ‘natural law thought-style’ (Mannheim 1986). But in so far as citizenship requires selection and a discriminatory concept of membership, this radical equalitarian impulse was simultaneously married to a conservative exclusionary principle. Membership units defined at scales below humanity as such necessarily engender unavoidable limits to a universalist, Kantian conception of rights. ‘Citizen’ rights are by definition not ‘human’ rights. As we argued above (see Figs. 2.1, 2.2, and 2.3; Chap. 2), the disembedding of individuals from the place-bound, subsistence livelihoods and feudal hierarchies also engenders new forms of dependence on the abstract functioning of the market and state. In this way citizenship embodies a peculiar and contradictory mix of both inclusionary universalism and exclusionary particularism, egalitarianism and hierarchy, sameness and difference, and natural law and conservative thought-styles.
Norbert Elias, 1897-1990 Note on the text Preface by Norbert Elias An essay on time Textual varia... more Norbert Elias, 1897-1990 Note on the text Preface by Norbert Elias An essay on time Textual variants Bibliography Index.
Until very recently, debate about immigration policies in Ireland has focussed on questions of wh... more Until very recently, debate about immigration policies in Ireland has focussed on questions of who, how many and what kinds of migrants can come. In Ireland, we are now seeing a shift in the discussion to concerns about how people can ‘integrate’ into an increasingly diverse Irish society. We are beginning to consider what our integration policies and framework should focus on. We are starting to realise that, when immigrants settle in a country, they have to find opportunities to ‘belong’ and participate in that country. We realise that this is as true in the practical sense (for example, in relation to employment) as in the social, political, and cultural sense. The Immigrant Council of Ireland (ICI) has been working directly with migrants in accessing their social and legal rights since our inception. Through our work, we see the barriers that migrants face in relation to economic, social, political and cultural integration in Ireland. We see on a daily basis how our immigration ...
At least in theory, in modern Western states, there is a deep and intrinsic relation between (mor... more At least in theory, in modern Western states, there is a deep and intrinsic relation between (more or less regulated) market capitalism and the principles of political liberalism. Such principles include universal suffrage, the protection of civil and political rights, political pluralism, the separation of powers, a division between the public and private, adherence to the rule of law, the protection of private property, a commitment to freedom of conscience and religion, an ontological commitment to individual freedom, and a practical commitment to freedoms of movement, occupational choice, speech and thought, cultural worldview, and political expression. With regard to the infrastructure and capacity of the state, a complex array of institutions and practices function to safeguard and balance these (often conflicting) freedoms. However, there is often a gulf between such underlying operating principles and their modus operandi in the face of particular problems. Liberal democrati...
Historical Social Research, 2020
Os primeiros trabalhos de Bourdieu sobre a Argelia foram surpreendentemente negligenciados, em gr... more Os primeiros trabalhos de Bourdieu sobre a Argelia foram surpreendentemente negligenciados, em grande parte por causa de qualquer discussao sobre os conceitos-chaves que mais tarde definiriam seu trabalho: habitus , capital e campo. No entanto, este trabalho, que fundamentalmente moldaria seu trabalho subsequente, desenvolveu relatos iniciais, embora nao desenvolvidos, sobre colonialismo, racismo e migracao. Este artigo argumentara que a discussao de Bourdieu sobre o colonialismo em seus primeiros trabalhos, juntamente com os argumentos desenvolvidos por seu aluno e co-autor, Abdelmalek Sayad, fornecem o inicio de uma base para a compreensao dos processos contemporaneos de dominacao e migracao. Palavras-chave: Bourdieu pos-colonial; colonialismo; migracao