Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Hostility and Hospitality
1.1. Afrophobia and Hibernophobia are not new: What is ‘group threat theory’?
1.2. The Contact Hypothesis and structural violence: How racial prejudice wanes as estrangement does
1.3. Host/Guest
1.4. Ireland’s full: When hospitality runs out
Chapter 2: Suspect Communities and Hibernophobia
2.1. Suspect Communities
2.2. Similar behaviours, different levels of suspicion
2.3. On the receiving end of suspicion: On auto-ethnography
2.4. All suspicions are imagined unequally
2.5. Imagined communities versus suspect communities are equivalent to an imagined community versus a community imagined
Chapter 3: Multiculturalism, populism and xenophobia
3.1. To oppose immigration
3.2. What multiculturalism needs to succeed
3.3. What kinds of policies does multiculturalism entertain?
3.4. No fences make good neighbours: Resolving conflict
3.5. Populism, or division is normal and natural
3.6. Irexit, or lies that populists need to be true
3.7. When is it rational to be xenophobic?
Chapter 4: Diaspora Policy
4.1. The Irish diaspora is a great resource
4.2. Identity and business
4.3. The risk to Irish studies
Chapter 5: Leuven and the reinvention of Ireland
5.1. The Irish diaspora and enterprise
5.2. The fire in Leuven
Chapter 6: Re-visiting how the Irish became White (supremacists)
6.1. Difference and Prophet Song
6.2. The Irish became White
6.3. On the impossibility of studying the Irish
6.4. No one gives a damn about the Irish
Chapter 7: Believe in Dublin. Believe in Ireland
Biography
Sean O’ Dubhghaill is Professor of International Relations at the Brussels School of Governance. He published An Anthropology of the Irish in Belgium: Belonging, Identity and Community in 2020.
