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Ethnic Research
Studies from R.C. Kingoriain and colleagues provide new data on ethnic research
March 1st, 2008
According to recent research published in the journal Ethnicities, "On 23 April 2006, an ethnicity question appeared for the first time on the census in the Republic of Ireland. This article analyses the evolution and addition of this question as an illustration of a specific process of state racialization in the Irish census." "As such, it illuminates the social and political contestation of the meaning of race, racial categories and ethnicity in the Republic of Ireland through an examination of the interplay between demographers' needs for simple categorization and the complex lived reality of race and ethnicity in Ireland. Driven by the 'Celtic Tiger' economic...
Source: Law & Health Weekly (2008-03-01)
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