Location and dislocation in contemporary Irish society : emigration and Irish identities

This volume of essays fills a number of gaps in the existing literature on emigration and provides a wide-ranging treatment emigration in contemporary Irish society, and the expanding Irish diaspora. By addressing the issues from a world perspective the contributors 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. The geographical focus ranges across Britain, the United States and Europe asserting that Ireland functions as an important 'emigrant nursery' for the world today, supplying the wider global economy with highly skilled and professional labour, not just with unskilled and casual labour.Several contributions testify to the emergence of an 'emigrant aristocracy' and a 'new wave' in recent Irish emigration. Others, while recognizing the significance of these developments, caution against the over-voluntarization and gentrification of the recent exodus. It will appeal to those interested in modern Irish emigration, women's studies, national identity, popular culture, literary criticism, the sociology of contemporary Irish society and those working in the rapidly growing field of diaspora studies.

著者

Mac Laughlin Jim

出版社

Cork University Press

発売日

1997年1月発売

価格

価格未定（税込・書誌情報提供：openBD）

ISBN

9781859180549

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