{"id":38730,"date":"2014-12-05T15:30:35","date_gmt":"2014-12-05T15:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=38730"},"modified":"2015-01-07T19:13:38","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T19:13:38","slug":"how-can-you-identify-as-irish-on-the-census-if-you-are-not-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=38730","title":{"rendered":"How can you identify as Irish on the census if you are not white?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.policy.manchester.ac.uk\/featured\/2014\/11\/how-can-you-identify-as-irish-on-the-census-if-you-are-not-white\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>How can you identify as Irish on the census if you are not white?<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.policy.manchester.ac.uk\" target=\"_blank\">Manchester Policy Blogs: Ethnicity<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethnicity.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Centre on Dynamics of Ethnicity<\/a><br \/>\nUniversity of Manchester, United Kingdom<br \/>\n2014-11-27<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/garrattlindsey\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Lindsey Garratt<\/strong><\/a>, Research Associate<\/p>\n<p><em>The census allows people to identify as Irish only if they are also white. What about the growing number of ethnic minority Irish?, asks Lindsey Garratt.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When I moved to the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_Kingdom\" target=\"_blank\">UK<\/a> from the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Republic_of_Ireland\" target=\"_blank\">Republic of Ireland<\/a> in August 2012, I filled in an application to privately rent a house. The form contained a question on ethnicity.<\/p>\n<p>As I ticked the \u2018white Irish\u2019 box, it was the first time I had identified myself as anything other than part of the majority group of a country. Now outside the dominant category and the anonymity this sometimes provides, a fleeting nervousness passed through me \u2013 what if identifying myself as Irish went against securing the house?<\/p>\n<p>This thought came and went in an instant, but what hasn\u2019t left me was my second reaction \u2013 what category would I have checked if I wasn\u2019t \u2018white\u2019, what if I was \u2018black\u2019 and Irish, what box could I tick then?&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Uncoupling \u2018white\u2019 from Irish in the census would allow at least three important groups to be recognised. Firstly, those of two migrant origin parents born in Ireland, or those who themselves moved to Ireland and subsequently to the UK. Secondly, those of mixed parentage born in Ireland, who have moved to the UK. Lastly, those of mixed parentage, born in the UK&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.policy.manchester.ac.uk\/featured\/2014\/11\/how-can-you-identify-as-irish-on-the-census-if-you-are-not-white\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How can you identify as Irish on the census if you are not white? Manchester Policy Blogs: Ethnicity Centre on Dynamics of Ethnicity University of Manchester, United Kingdom 2014-11-27 Lindsey Garratt, Research Associate The census allows people to identify as Irish only if they are also white. What about the growing number of ethnic minority [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,33,28,8,394],"tags":[18628,246,18627,18626,18629],"class_list":["post-38730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-europe","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","tag-centre-on-dynamics-of-ethnicity","tag-ireland","tag-lindsey-garratt","tag-manchester-policy-blogs","tag-university-of-manchester"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}