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Location and dislocation in contemporary Irish society : emigration and Irish identities / edited by Jim Mac Laughlin.

Contributor(s): McLoughlin, Jim.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Cork : Cork University Press, 1997Description: ix, 354 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 1859180558.Subject(s): Irish -- Foreign countries | Ireland -- Emigration and immigration -- HistoryDDC classification: 304.809415
Contents:
Introduction / Jim Mac Laughlin -- Emigration and the construction of Nationalist Hegemony in Ireland: The historical background to 'New Wave' Irish emigration / Jim Mac Laughlin -- The blackbird calls in grief: Colonialism, Health and identity among Irish immigrants in Britain / Liam Greenslade -- Contemporary Irish settlement in London: Women's worlds, men's worlds / Bronwen Walter -- Sitting on your politics: The Irish among the British and the women among the Irish / Marella Buckley -- The new vanishing Irish: Social characteristics of 'New wave' Irish emigration / Jim Mac Laughlin -- The ex-Isle of Erin: emigration and Irish culture / Fintan O'Toole -- The devaluation of 'nation' as 'home' and the de-politicisation of recent Irish emigration / Jim Mac Laughlin -- Unmasking Irishness: Irish women, the Irish nation and the Irish diaspora / Breda Gray -- Clandestine destinies: The informal economic sector and Irish immigrant incorporation / Mary P. Corcoran -- Irish immigrants in the United States' racial system / Eithne Luibheid -- Tradionalism and homelessness in contemporary Irish music / Kieran Keohane -- Graduate emigrants: a 'new wave' in Irish emigration? / Ian Shuttleworth -- Technical experience or social myth: Ireland and the International professional labour market / Gerard Hanlon.

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The contributors to this volume suggest that emigration is not simply a cultural tradition or behavioural trait of the Irish, but a social class and gendered response to structures operating in Irish society and the global economy.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Jim Mac Laughlin -- Emigration and the construction of Nationalist Hegemony in Ireland: The historical background to 'New Wave' Irish emigration / Jim Mac Laughlin -- The blackbird calls in grief: Colonialism, Health and identity among Irish immigrants in Britain / Liam Greenslade -- Contemporary Irish settlement in London: Women's worlds, men's worlds / Bronwen Walter -- Sitting on your politics: The Irish among the British and the women among the Irish / Marella Buckley -- The new vanishing Irish: Social characteristics of 'New wave' Irish emigration / Jim Mac Laughlin -- The ex-Isle of Erin: emigration and Irish culture / Fintan O'Toole -- The devaluation of 'nation' as 'home' and the de-politicisation of recent Irish emigration / Jim Mac Laughlin -- Unmasking Irishness: Irish women, the Irish nation and the Irish diaspora / Breda Gray -- Clandestine destinies: The informal economic sector and Irish immigrant incorporation / Mary P. Corcoran -- Irish immigrants in the United States' racial system / Eithne Luibheid -- Tradionalism and homelessness in contemporary Irish music / Kieran Keohane -- Graduate emigrants: a 'new wave' in Irish emigration? / Ian Shuttleworth -- Technical experience or social myth: Ireland and the International professional labour market / Gerard Hanlon.