Paddy and Paddiette Go to Washington
Paddy and Paddiette Go to Washington
Race and Transnational Immigration Politics
This chapter follows the Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform (ILIR), which organized in December 2005 to “legalize the Irish,” maintaining that calls for a zero tolerance approach to immigration at both the national and the state level encouraged this organization to adopt a race-conscious and racist lobbying agenda, and to work undocumented Irish immigrants into good Paddies. Race politics surrounding immigration both in the United States and in the Republic of Ireland, however, stalled efforts to change the legal status of the undocumented Irish. And with severe downturns in both nations’ economies—the former beginning in 2007 and the latter in 2008—their legal status remains ever the more precarious.
Keywords: Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform, ILIR, immigration, zero tolerance approach, race-consciousness, undocumented Irish immigrants, race politics
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