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Examining responses to migration and settlement in Britain from the
Irish Famine up to Brexit, The Discourse of Repatriation looks at
how concepts of removal evolved in this period, and the varied
protagonists who have articulated these ideas in different
contexts. Analysing the relationship between discourse and action,
Renshaw explores how ideas and language originating on the
peripheries of debate on migration and belonging can permeate the
mainstream and transform both discussion and policy. The book sheds
light both on how the migrant 'other' has been viewed in Britain,
historically and contemporaneously, and more broadly how the
relationship between state, press, and populace has developed from
the early Victorian period onwards. It identifies key junctures
where the concept of the removal of 'othered' groups has crossed
over from the rhetorical to the actual, and considers why this was
the case. Based on extensive original archival research, the book
reassesses modern British history through the lens of the most
polarised attitudes to immigration and demographic change. This
book will be of use to readers with an interest in migration,
diaspora, the development of populism and political extremes, and
more broadly the history of modern Britain.
Examining responses to migration and settlement in Britain from the
Irish Famine up to Brexit, The Discourse of Repatriation looks at
how concepts of removal evolved in this period, and the varied
protagonists who have articulated these ideas in different
contexts. Analysing the relationship between discourse and action,
Renshaw explores how ideas and language originating on the
peripheries of debate on migration and belonging can permeate the
mainstream and transform both discussion and policy. The book sheds
light both on how the migrant 'other' has been viewed in Britain,
historically and contemporaneously, and more broadly how the
relationship between state, press, and populace has developed from
the early Victorian period onwards. It identifies key junctures
where the concept of the removal of 'othered' groups has crossed
over from the rhetorical to the actual, and considers why this was
the case. Based on extensive original archival research, the book
reassesses modern British history through the lens of the most
polarised attitudes to immigration and demographic change. This
book will be of use to readers with an interest in migration,
diaspora, the development of populism and political extremes, and
more broadly the history of modern Britain.
Since the Holocaust, traces of memory are virtually all that remain
in Poland today after more than eight hundred years of Jewish life
there. This remarkable album, published on behalf of the Galicia
Jewish Museum in Krakow, offers a sensitive way of looking at that
past. Based entirely on arresting, present-day colour photographs
of Polish Galicia, it shows how much of that past can still be seen
today if one knows how to look and how to interpret what one sees.
The traces of the Jewish past in Polish Galicia can be approached
from many angles. Jewish life in Poland was in ruins after the
Holocaust, and so too were most of its synagogues and cemeteries.
Much evidence of ruin remains, but, astonishingly, there are also
traces that bear witness to the great Jewish civilization that once
flourished there-synagogues and cemeteries of astounding beauty in
villages and small towns as well as in the larger cities. One can
also see the exact locations where the Germans murdered the Jews of
Galicia in the Holocaust: not only in the infamous death camps and
ghettos, but also in fields, in forests, and in rivers. The Germans
tried to destroy even the memory of the Jews in Poland, and to a
very great extent they succeeded; then came forty years of
communism, including the antisemitic campaign of 1968. But now that
Poland is once again part of a multicultural Europe, the great
Jewish civilization that once flourished on Polish lands is
increasingly being memorialized, by local Poles as well as by
foreign Jews. Synagogues and cemeteries are being renovated,
monuments are being erected, museums are being set up, pilgrimages
are taking place, festivals of Jewish culture are being organized,
books about Jews are being published, and there are once again
rabbis and kosher food. So the traces of memory include how the
past is being remembered in Poland today, and the people doing the
remembering. Given all these perspectives, the contact with
contemporary realities involves a complex emotional journey: grief
at a civilization in ruins; pride in its spiritual and cultural
achievements; anger at its destruction; nostalgia for a past that
is gone; hope for the future. Considering each element in turn and
offering cultural insights and information to support each of these
responses, the combination of photos and text in this book not only
informs but also suggests both how to make sense of the past and
how to discover its relevance for the present. The seventy-four
photographs are all fully captioned, with additional detailed
background notes to explain and contextualize them. The idea is to
help people understand the Jewish civilization of Polish Galicia in
its local context on the basis of what can still be seen there
today. People who have family connections with Polish Galicia will
find this an invaluable sourcebook on their own heritage, but its
innovative approach to understanding the past will appeal to anyone
concerned with questions of history, memory, and identity, and how
photography can make the past accessible. Published for the Galicia
Jewish Museum, Krakow, by the Littman Library of Jewish
Civilization and Indiana University Press
The late-Victorian and Edwardian East End was an area not only
defined by its poverty and destitution, but also by its ethnic and
religious diversity. In the neighbourhoods of East London diasporic
communities interacted with each other and with the host society in
a number of different contexts. In Socialism and the Diasporic
'Other' Daniel Renshaw examines the sometimes turbulent
relationships formed between Irish Catholic and Jewish populations
and the socialist and labour organisations agitating in the area.
Employing a comparative perspective, the book analyses the complex
relations between working class migrants, conservative communal
hierarchies and revolutionary groups. Commencing and concluding
with waves of widespread industrial action in the East End, where
politics were conflated with ethnic and diasporic identity, this
book aims to reinterpret the attitudes of the turn-of-the-century
East London Left towards 'difference'. Concerned with both
protecting hard-won gains for the industrial proletariat and
championing marginalised minority groups, the 'correct' path to be
taken by socialist movements was unclear throughout the period. The
book simultaneously compares the experiences of the Irish and
Jewish working classes between 1889 and 1912, and the relationships
formed, at work, at worship, in political organisations or at
school, between these diasporic groups.
The late-Victorian and Edwardian East End was an area not only
defined by its poverty and destitution, but also by its ethnic and
religious diversity. In the neighbourhoods of East London diasporic
communities interacted with each other and with the host society in
a number of different contexts. In Socialism and the Diasporic
'Other' Daniel Renshaw examines the sometimes turbulent
relationships formed between Irish Catholic and Jewish populations
and the socialist and labour organisations agitating in the area.
Employing a comparative perspective, the book analyses the complex
relations between working class migrants, conservative communal
hierarchies and revolutionary groups. Commencing and concluding
with waves of widespread industrial action in the East End, where
politics were conflated with ethnic and diasporic identity, this
book aims to reinterpret the attitudes of the turn-of-the-century
East London Left towards 'difference'. Concerned with both
protecting hard-won gains for the industrial proletariat and
championing marginalised minority groups, the 'correct' path to be
taken by socialist movements was unclear throughout the period. The
book simultaneously compares the experiences of the Irish and
Jewish working classes between 1889 and 1912, and the relationships
formed, at work, at worship, in political organisations or at
school, between these diasporic groups.
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