citizenship available through ius soli. Arguments for the amendment were couched in terms of a threat posed by Third World women … having babies in Ireland to obtain residence, and a putative obligation to the EU to harmonise citizenship laws. This article … explores how pregnant foreign women's bodies became a site of perplexity about the borders of the twenty-first century Irish …

The paper offers a comparative look at attitudes to immigration in Ireland as reflected in the latest round of ESS …, with a particular focus on the issues of asylum, gender, and misconceptions of the true extent of immigration …