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On The Road To Recognition: Irish Travellers’ Quest For Ethnic Identity, Kamaria A. Kruckenberg
On The Road To Recognition: Irish Travellers’ Quest For Ethnic Identity, Kamaria A. Kruckenberg
Kamaria A Kruckenberg
This paper explores and defends Irish Travellers’ efforts to push the Republic of Ireland to recognize them as an ethnic minority group under law. Irish Travellers are a small indigenous minority group who have lived primarily in Ireland for centuries. They rank at the bottom of Irish society in rates of poverty, unemployment, life expectancy, infant mortality, health, education levels, political representation and access, and living conditions. Much like the Roma, with whom they share a nomadic tradition, Irish Travellers are in the midst a movement to improve living conditions, fight widespread discrimination, and gain recognition as an ethnic minority …