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Gray, B
2016
January
International Migration Review
The Politics of Migration, Church, and State: A Case Study of the Catholic Church in Ireland
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FAITH-BASED ORGANIZATIONS HUMAN-RIGHTS RELIGION ISLAM NETHERLANDS INCLUSION JUSTICE EUROPE ACTORS LOVE
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This article investigates the ways in which a shift from post-colonial nation building to neoliberal state restructuring has shaped church and Irish state relations regarding migrant welfare. It develops the extensive work of Backstrom and Davie (2010) and Backstrom et al. (2011) on how majority churches in European countries are reclaiming a social welfare role as the state relinquishes this responsibility: first, by examining the domain of migrant welfare which is not developed in their work; and second, by arguing that majority church promigrant service provision, as it has evolved in recent decades, can be understood in relation to an emergent neoliberal mode of collective responsibility for migrant welfare. It suggests that in spite of other factors and forces that undermine Irish Catholic Church authority, the marketization of more domains of life in the first decades of the twenty-first century has given new significance to Catholic Social Teaching and pro-migrant church initiatives.
10.1111/imre.12165
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