Irish Global Migration and Memory - Transatlantic Perspectives of Ireland's Famine Exodus (Paperback)

Irish Global Migration and Memory: Transnational Perspectives of Ireland's Famine Exodus brings together leading scholars in the field who examine the experiences and recollections of Irish emigrants who fled from their famine-stricken homeland in the mid-nineteenth century. The book breaks new ground in its comparative, transnational approach and singular focus on the dynamics of cultural remembrance of one migrant group, the Famine Irish and their descendants, in multiple Atlantic and Pacific settings. Its authors comparatively examine the collective experiences of the Famine Irish in terms of their community and institution building; cultural, ethnic, and racial encounters with members of other groups; and especially their patterns of mass-migration, integration, and remembrance of their traumatic upheaval by their descendants and host societies. The disruptive impact of their mass-arrival had reverberations around the Atlantic world. As an early refugee movement, migrant community, and ethnic minority, Irish Famine emigrants experienced and were recollected to have faced many of the challenges that confronted later immigrant groups in their destinations of settlement. This book is especially topical and will be of interest not only to Irish, migration, and refugee scholars, but also the general public and all who seek to gain insight into one of Europe's foundational moments of forced migration that prefigures its current refugee crisis. This book was originally published as a special issue of Atlantic Studies: Global Currents.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	September 2018
First published:	2017
Editors:	Marguerite Corporaal • Jason King
Dimensions:	246 x 174 x 11mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	140
ISBN-13:	978-0-367-02290-7
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General
LSN:	0-367-02290-7
Barcode:	9780367022907

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