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A study of political leadership and asylum issues in Ireland

Teresa Wyndham-Smith

This dissertation is submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements of the Master of Arts in Peace and Development Studies, University of Limerick, Ireland, 2002. The views expressed in this document are the author's own and do not necessarily represent the views of the University of Limerick

© Copyright, Teresa Wydham-Smith, 2002. All rights reserved.

Introduction
Acknowledgements
Glossary

Chapter One: Governance, Government and Leadership

• 1.1    Governance, a definition
• 1.2    Governments and governance
• 1.3    Governance issues in the context of global movement
• 1.4    Leadership and governance
• 1.5    The Irish context
• 1.6    The consequences of lack of leadership

Chapter Two:  International Refugee Law

• 2.1    The concept of asylum
• 2.2    International refugee legislation
• 2.3    The limitations of the 1951 Convention
• 2.4    Changes in the nature of asylum
• 2.5    Regional refugee treaties
• 2.6    Economic migration
• 2.7    The principle of non-refoulement
• 2.8    Manifestly unfounded claims
• 2.9    The EU and asylum-seekers
• 2.10 EU Refugee Policy

Chapter Three:  Refugee Policy in Ireland

• 3.1    Historical background
• 3.2    Contemporary legislation
• 3.3    The process of seeking asylum in Ireland
• 3.4    Determining asylum
• 3.5    Irish citizenship
• 3.6    Detention of asylum-seekers

Chapter Four:  Methodology

• 4.1    Definition of content analysis
• 4.2    Advantages and disadvantages of content analysis
• 4.3    Choice of sample
• 4.4    Content analysis
• 4.5    Analysis of comment and opinion about leadership

Chapter Five:  Content analysis of daily newspaper articles

• 5.1    Research approach
• 5.2    Analysis of articles

Chapter Six:  Discussion of findings

• 6.1    Findings
• 6.2    Major policy actors and their comments
• 6.3    Comments made in relation to themes
• 6.4    Civil society views of leadership
• 6.5    News media

Chapter Seven: Conclusion

• Bibliography

Appendices

• Appendix A: Content analysis matrix
• Appendix B: Content analysis coding

List of tables

• Table 3.01 Numbers making asylum applications in Ireland
• Table 5.01 Dominant themes
• Table 5.02 Ideological analysis
• Table 5.03 Ideological analysis by theme
• Table 5.04 Temporal context analysis
• Table 5.05 Temporal context analysis by theme

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