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 …

candidate-level data from Ireland and Sweden support the idea that dynastic ties help women overcome a vote disadvantage in …Throughout history and across countries, women appear more likely than men to enter politics at the heels of a close … relative or spouse. We provide a theoretical explanation for this dynastic bias in gender representation that integrates …