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Rights-based approaches to addressing food poverty and food insecurity in Ireland and UK.

The law and order' debate in the Republic of Ireland has taken a number of unusual twists in recent years, developments that are not widely recognized and have generated little academic interest outside the country. The absence of an Irish voice in the international literature is striking. A country with a traditionally low level of crime, Ireland has witnessed a sharp decrease in the official crime rate since 1995. The murders of a police officer and journalist in 1996 led to a transformation of the criminal justice landscape. A major prison-building programme was initiated, a policy of zero tolerance' policing was introduced, and some of the symptoms of a culture of control' began to emerge.

The Politics of Intolerance—Irish Style

Masculinities and the Paedophile: Discursive Strategies in Irish Newspapers.

In Ireland food poverty has emerged as an increasingly important issue on the social policy agenda. The reasons for this include the changing understanding of the nature of food poverty, its causes, dimensions and the development of solutions, as well as a growing awareness that food remains a central dimension of people’s experience of poverty even within industrialised countries. Alongside these developments there is a growing interest in the role of rights-based approaches to poverty alleviation generally and specifically to the issue of food poverty. This paper begins by mapping the main contours of the international human rights system and academic literature in order to ground food poverty within the overarching political and legal framework. In view of the fact that food poverty is central to people’s experience of poverty, it is necessary to review the conceptual literature on poverty generally and to identify the primary state-level mechanisms associated with poverty alleviation. More specifically, this study also identifies the key concepts, actors and interventions that pertain to food poverty in Ireland. This is followed by a summary of the discussion and analysis generated from a one-day workshop which took place in Dublin in March 2008, at which various stakeholders explored the potential of using rights-based approaches to food poverty in Ireland. The paper concludes that rights-based approaches have not featured prominently in interventions to address issues of poverty in general, or food poverty specifically, and activists and practitioners working in the arena of food poverty point to significant challenges in progressing this approach. Institutional resistance to the adoption of a rights-based approach is a significant factor, as is the primacy of private sector interests who are the ‘gatekeepers’ of the contemporary food system. At the same time, insights from the work of human rights organisations who work on food and those who use the approach in other settings suggest that it is a promising avenue to explore. Of particular significance is its potential to address issues of power relations between marginalised groups and policy-makers and to locate local issues and responses within a framework of international human rights law.

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Rights-Based Approaches to Food Poverty in Ireland

The Philippines’ experience in international labour migration is widely considered a success – an observation endorsed by international bodies such as the World Health Organisation. As an active source of professional nurses to the developed world, the country continues to produce more nurses than the local nursing market can employ; a labour strategy that is promoted, facilitated and supported by the Philippine state and nursing educational system. This thesis interrogates Filipino nurse migration through the methodological prism of autoethnography, drawing on first-hand experience and reflexive accounts, interviews, photographs, policy documents and material cultural artefacts, to critically examine and challenge the country’s institutionalised migration regime. The thesis further argues that while the Philippines' culture of migration has been widely reported, understanding this complex phenomenon calls for further and deeper excavation of the social, cultural, political and historical processes that continually shape Filipinos' personal motives and desires. Situated within the fields of cultural studies, media studies and the interdisciplinary field of contemporary migration and diaspora studies, Licensed to Care comprises of an introduction and five chapters. Chapter one tracks the considerations that encouraged me to pursue an autoethnographic genre of writing about Filipino nurse migration by exploring the relationships between myself and my object of study; my life story and my ethnographic practices; and my personal desires, motives and experiences and those of my social actors. To find out how a culture of migration is effectively sustained in the Philippines, I examine the social, cultural and political circumstances of the country in chapter two. In chapter three, I turn my attention to the Americanisation of Philippine nursing education in order to examine the role of the Philippine nursing educational system in shaping the students’ desire to migrate, thus serving to reinforce the identity formation of the ‘global Pinoy’. Utilising the method of visual analysis, I unpack the way in which nursing is marketed through the aggressive use of marketing and advertising brochures in chapter four. In chapter five, I examine critically how several stakeholders cited in the migration literature – international organisations, governments, professional associations, trade unions and researchers – attempt to regulate the migration of nurses from the poorer regions of the world under the guise of an ‘ethical recruitment’ framework. Drawing from previous chapters, I problematise the concept of the brain drain phenomenon with specific reference to the experience of the Philippines as a source country. Declaration I certify that this thesis which I now submit for examination for the award of Doctor of Philosophy, is entirely my own work and has not been taken from the work of others save and to the extent that such work has been cited and acknowledged within the text of my work. This thesis was prepared according to the regulations for postgraduate study by research of the Dublin Institute of Technology and has not been submitted in whole or in part for an award in any other Institute or University. The work reported on in this thesis conforms to the principles and requirements of the Institute’s guidelines for ethics in research. The Institute has permission to keep, to lend or to copy this thesis in whole or in part, on condition that any such use of the thesis be duly acknowledged. Signature __________________________ Date ____________ Candidate

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Rights-based approaches to addressing food poverty and food insecurity in Ireland and UK.

The Politics of Intolerance—Irish Style

Masculinities and the Paedophile: Discursive Strategies in Irish Newspapers.

Rights-Based Approaches to Food Poverty in Ireland

Licensed to Care: Inhabiting the Transnational Economy of "Global Pinoy"

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