Race and Immigration in the New Ireland

Contributors

CONTRIBUTORS Pablo Rojas Coppari is a strategic advocacy officer at Migrant Rights Centre Ireland, with emphasis on irregular migration and trafficking for forced labor. He has a BA in applied languages and an MA in international development and intercultural studies from the University of Lille III, France. Prior to joining the MRCI, Pablo undertook research and casework for former unaccompanied minors seeking asylum with the Dutch Refugee Council, and worked on research projects on language and cultural issues of ethnic minorities across Europe with the European Centre for Minority Issues in Flensburg, Germany. Mike Cronin is currently academic director of the Boston College Centre for Irish Programmes in Dublin. He has written widely on different aspects of modern Irish history, including (with Daryl Adair) Wearing the Green: A History of St. Patrick’s Day (1999). An acknowledged expert on the role of sport in Irish life, Cronin appears regularly on television and radio to discuss the social importance of sport in Ireland . Cronin authored Sport and Nationalism in Ireland (1999) and edited (with John Bale) Sport and Postcolonialism (2003) and (with David Mayall) Sporting Nationalisms (1998). Cronin has also edited special issues of the Journal of Contemporary History and Sport in History on sportsrelated topics. 221 Heather Edwards is a visiting assistant professor at Ohio University. She received her PhD from the University of Notre Dame, where she specialized in British and Irish Literature of the long nineteenth century . Her article, “The Irish New Woman and Emily Lawless’s Grania: The Story of an Island: A Congenial Geography,” was published in En glish Literature in Translation in 2008. She is currently working on a project that explores how examining the colonial and rural dimensions of representations of New Women figures located in geographies outside the British metropole complicate current critical conversations about the New Woman and women’s experiences of modernity at the turn of the twentieth century. Steve Garner is senior lecturer in sociology at Aston University (Birmingham, UK). He has published on racism, immigration, and social class in a variety of contexts: Ireland, the United Kingdom, the European Union, and the Caribbean. His publications include Racism in the Irish Experience (2004), Whiteness: An Introduction (2007), and Racisms (2010). Luke Gibbons is professor of Irish literary and cultural studies at the School of English, Drama and Media Studies, National University of Ireland, Maynooth. He has published widely on Irish culture, film, literature, and the visual arts, as well as on aesthetics and politics . His publications include Gaelic Gothic: Race, Colonialism and Irish Culture (2004), Edmund Burke and Ireland: Aesthetics, Politics and the Colo nial Sublime (2003), The Quiet Man (2002), Transformations in Irish Culture (1996), and Cinema and Ireland (1988), co-written with Kevin Rockett and John Hill. He was a contributing editor to The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing (1991) and has coedited two recent collections, Re-Inventing Ireland: Culture, Society and the Global Economy (2002) and a special issue of The Yale Journal of Criticism (2002). Ronit Lentin is head of Sociology and the director of the MPhil in Race, Ethnicity, Conflict at Trinity College Dublin. She was an active member of the Trinity Immigration Initiative. Lentin has published numerous articles on racism in Ireland, gender, and Israel-Palestine. 222 Contributors Her books include (with Robbie McVeigh) Racism and Anti-Racism in Ireland (2002), (with Nahla Abdo) Women and the Politics of Military Confrontation : Palestinian and Israeli Gendered Narratives of Dislocation (2002), (with Robbie McVeigh) After Optimism? Ireland, Globalisation and Racism (2006), (with Alana Lentin) Race and State (2008), Thinking Palestine (2008), and Co-Memory and Melancholia: Israelis Memorialising the Palestinian Nakba (2010). She recently edited (with Elena Moreo) Migrant Activism and Integration from Below in Ireland (2012). She contributes regularly to Metro Éireann. Robbie McVeigh has written and researched extensively on racism and sectarianism in Ireland, North and South, including his groundbreaking 1992 article “The Specificity of Irish Racism” (Race and Class, 1992). His research publications include Travellers, Refugees and Racism in Tallaght (1998), A Place of Welcome? Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Northern Ireland (2002), and The Next Stephen Lawrence? Racist Violence and Criminal Justice in Northern Ireland (2006). He has coauthored two books on racism in Ireland with Ronit Lentin: Racism and Anti-Racism in Ireland (2002) and After Optimism? Ireland, Racism and Globalisation (2006). He has coauthored with Bill Rolston critiques of the post-GFA state and its responses to racism and sectarianism: “From Good Friday to Good Relations...