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The end of (Irish) migration studies?
Translocations – the Irish inter-university ejournal for migration, race and social change – is in danger of closing. In NUI Cork, migration studies is threatened with closure. and what about Ireland’s other migration studies projects? No one has heard from the Minister of Integration Conor Lenihan for weeks – once his budget was cut by…
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New year, new war
To be published in Metro Eireann, 15 January 2009. (PHOTOS: http://gaza.haimbresheeth.com/gaza-carnage-archive/gaza-photos) What a start for the new year!! On 27 December, the Israeli Defence Forces launched an attack of unprecedented scale on the Gaza Strip. According to the Israeli government, the attack was in response to unyielding Palestinian rocket and mortar fire into Israel since…
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Gaza Rage
The war in Gaza is entering its seventh day with the Israeli ground surge in force as I write. I feel entirely helpless and nearly immobilised by rage. But reading Ilan Pappe’s ‘Israel’s righteous fury and its victims in Gaza’ in Electronic Intifada helps to make sense of the murderous attack. My work on the…
Blog and website by Ronit Lentin, a political sociologist, writer and an antiracist activist.