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The ‘Final Solution’: Reformism, Ethnicity Denial and the Politics of Anti-Travellerism in Ireland
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 January 2008
Abstract
The article identifies a resurgence of anti-Travellerism in post-Good Friday Agreement, post-Celtic Tiger Ireland – most obviously signalled by the ongoing Irish Government policy of ‘ethnicity denial’. It provides a comparative analysis of the different trajectories of state reformism with regard to Travellers in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland - from the promised ‘final solution’ to the ‘Traveller problem’ of the Commission on Itinerancy in 1963 through the high water mark of the 1995 Task Force Report. It finds a disturbing recrudescence of assimilationist, sedentarist and racist ideas and practices in contemporary state policies towards Travellers.
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- Themed Section Care or Control? Gypsies, Travellers and the State
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