CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2023
| Author | Deasy-Millar, Rebecca |
|---|---|
| Title | Not the Irish Way: an exploration into the absence of top-down, Copenhagen securitisation procedures within the context of migration in Ireland |
| Summary | Despite the fact that a widely criticised international protection system for migrants has existed on the island of Ireland since the dawn of the millennium and that, in recent months, there has been a steep rise in public support for far-right political parties and their anti-migrant views there, it is seldom that Ireland as a nation is ever mentioned in discussions on the securitisation of migration. Whilst one of the aims of this thesis is to, using the Paris School of security studies’ notion of routinised security practices, demonstrate that migration is, indeed, securitised in Ireland by virtue of the Irish system of accommodation (known as the Direct Provision system) for international protection applicants, its core aim is to explain why migration is not securitised in Ireland from a more top-down, Copenhagen perspective. In other European contexts, governments have overtly securitised migration for years now and are only growing more and more comfortable doing so; thus, this begs the question: why not the Irish government? By exploring the racial makeup of Ireland’s migrant population, Irish economic reliance on migration, and the country’s history of turning a blind eye to techniques of population containment, possible answers to this question will arise. However, it will be through the theory of Ontological Security and, particularly, the concept of ontological (or autobiographical) state narratives that it will become clear how loyalty to a particular idea of what constitutes “the Irish way” has led to a historical absence of top-down, Copenhagen securitisation procedures on the migration scene in Ireland. |
| Supervisor | Roe, Paul |
| Department | International Relations MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2023/deasy-millar_rebecca.pdf |
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