ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book examines historical shifts in racialised forms of struggle and control through the domain of mass education in Ireland, from the imperial to the globalised age. It focuses on contemporary relationships between migration, state authority, and citizenship, in order to inform both everyday anti-racist pedagogies and education-related social movements. Human migration does not just imply potentially troubled histories; it also troubles sealed, linear and bounded historical narratives, particularly those that continue to valorise racialised links between nation, state and citizens, formed prior to World War II. In a globalised world, the figure of the migrant blurs the lines of where locality ends and nation begins, especially in the case of anti-deportation protests. The two phenomena of marketisation and securitisation, broadly conceived as risk prevention in an unpredictable world, are key to how educational relations have become shaped by, and shaping of globalised societies.
