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The role of business in global governance is now widely recognized, but exploration of its role in global financial governance has been more haphazard than systematic. This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of the role of transnational financial associations (TFAs) in the organization of global finance. This book develops three theoretical themes of assemblage, functionality, and power as enrolment. These themes challenge approaches that treat financial power as emanating from a single location or force. Whilst existing approaches tend to treat TFAs as irrelevant or as me.

Introduction: Ireland's New Strangers / Julieann Veronica Ulin -- Immigration in Ireland : A Keynote Address by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights / Mary Robinson -- An Interview with Pablo Rojas Coppari of the Migrant Rights Centre Ireland / Julieann Veronica Ulin -- (M)other Ireland : Migrant Women Subverting the Racial State? / Ronit Lentin -- Racism in the Six Counties / Robbie McVeigh -- The Linguistic Challenge of Multicultural Ireland : Managing Language Diversity in Irish Schools / Pádraig Ó Riagáin -- The Irish Language in Twenty-First-Century Ireland : Exploring Legislative and Policy Protections North and South / Verona Ní Dhrisceoil -- Integration Through Sport : The Gaelic Athletic Association and the New Irish / Mike Cronin -- Reflections on Race in Contemporary Ireland / Steve Garner -- Conclusion: Ireland, Immigration, and the Ethics of Memory / Luke Gibbons.

Background: Patient and public involvement (PPI) in health and social care policy, service decision-making and research are presented as good practice in England. Yet the explicit rationale for PPI and how it is positioned within the literature, policy and practice remain confused, in particular, in relation to Volunteer Involvement (VI). In health and social care, PPI and VI are managed and valued as conceptually distinct, yet the discourses in their policy and practice documents treat them as closely related in fundamental ways. Objective: Compare and critically evaluate discourses framing PPI and VI within English health and social care. Design: A critical discourse approach was used to explore the accounts of PPI and VI in policy. These accounts were then compared and contrasted with personal accounts of volunteering in health and social care settings. Results: Twenty documents from key national health and social care bodies were discursively examined in terms of their framing PPI and VI. A narrative disconnect between the two was repeatedly confirmed. This finding contrasted with an analysis of personal accounts of VI which displayed VI as a form of PPI. Conclusion: There is a disconnect between language, narratives and practice in PPI and in VI which may have direct consequences for policy and practice. Recognising and managing it can offer innovative ways of enabling volunteers to be involved across health and social care settings, ensuring the experiential value added by volunteers' service contributions, to be recognised so that their democratic participation may be seen to shape services.

BACKGROUND: Patient and public involvement (PPI) in health and social care policy, service decision‐making and research are presented as good practice in England. Yet the explicit rationale for PPI and how it is positioned within the literature, policy and practice remain confused, in particular, in relation to Volunteer Involvement (VI). In health and social care, PPI and VI are managed and valued as conceptually distinct, yet the discourses in their policy and practice documents treat them as closely related in fundamental ways. OBJECTIVE: Compare and critically evaluate discourses framing PPI and VI within English health and social care. DESIGN: A critical discourse approach was used to explore the accounts of PPI and VI in policy. These accounts were then compared and contrasted with personal accounts of volunteering in health and social care settings. RESULTS: Twenty documents from key national health and social care bodies were discursively examined in terms of their framing PPI and VI. A narrative disconnect between the two was repeatedly confirmed. This finding contrasted with an analysis of personal accounts of VI which displayed VI as a form of PPI. CONCLUSION: There is a disconnect between language, narratives and practice in PPI and in VI which may have direct consequences for policy and practice. Recognising and managing it can offer innovative ways of enabling volunteers to be involved across health and social care settings, ensuring the experiential value added by volunteers' service contributions, to be recognised so that their democratic participation may be seen to shape services.