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This volume brings together a range of practical and theoretical
perspectives on responsibility in the context of refugee and
migrant integration. Addressing one of the major challenges of our
time, a diverse group of authors shares insights from history,
philosophy, psychology, cultural studies, and from personal
experience. The book expands our understanding of the complex
challenges and opportunities that are associated with migration and
integration, and highlights the important role that individuals can
and should play in the process. Interview with the authors:
https://youtu.be/HDkaN_PBBF8
This volume brings together a range of practical and theoretical
perspectives on responsibility in the context of refugee and
migrant integration. Addressing one of the major challenges of our
time, a diverse group of authors shares insights from history,
philosophy, psychology, cultural studies, and from personal
experience. The book expands our understanding of the complex
challenges and opportunities that are associated with migration and
integration, and highlights the important role that individuals can
and should play in the process. Interview with the authors:
https://youtu.be/HDkaN_PBBF8
Reveals the importance of social networks and identities to
defining Highland Scots' engagements with Empire and its lasting
legacies A central, reliable and readable reference point for study
of a topic that will interest a wide range of scholars and the
reading public internationally Individual chapters that will suit
individual specialisms, while still being accessible to readers
from other disciplines/professions Innovative and topical
commentaries which are highly readable, provocative and
agenda-setting Important (re)considerations of neglected and/or
understudied perspectives and areas of scholarship, presenting new
histories of understudied social groups or situations and new
insight on social networks and entanglements as a key aspect of
Empire Interdisciplinary editorial team with track record of
delivering edited volumes International material to allow
comparison and contextualisation and broaden readerships This is a
book about the social in Highland entanglements with Empire the
networks, relationships and identities that made it possible for
Highland Scots to access the Empire and its benefits. It explores
from a range of perspectives the impact that these Scots had, as
sojourners and settlers, on the different places they encountered.
It is also a book about the present-day legacies of their
engagements with Empire, and of the ongoing process of forging
social and cultural identities with Highland roots. The volume
presents rigorous and insightful new research from both
well-established and early career scholars, accompanied by
commentary on the research and the issues it raises from a range of
academic and non-academic voices. The book represents a significant
contribution our understanding of the role of Highland Scots,
influenced significantly by their culture and language, in creating
the Empire and its legacies. It advances knowledge of just how
diverse the impacts of Highland Scots were on forging landscapes
and lifescapes across the Atlantic, and how their exposure to the
colonial world influenced and reshaped their Diasporic identities.
While the British Empire was a collaboration of diverse interests,
this book will shed light on one important interest: the Highland
one.
This volume offers fresh perspectives on the legacy of British
colonisation in Atlantic Canada, a region that was pivotal in
safeguarding Britain's imperial ambitions. Chapters in the
collection engage with this legacy across three sections:
Dispossession and Settlement; Religion and Identity; and
Reappraising Memory. Showcasing research from both new and
established scholars from Canada, the UK and the United States, the
collection challenges the established historiography of the region
and brings groups who have traditionally been excluded from
Britain's broader imperial narrative into sharper focus. Key
Features Situates the Scottish experience within the process of
British colonisation, challenging the tendency to omit the Scots
from critical explorations of the colonisation process in this
region. Highlights the Indigenous experience, as well as the
experience of the enslaved, free people of colour and religious
minorities.
This book highlights how the Catholic population participated in
the extension of citizenship in Scotland and considers
Catholicism's transition from an underground and isolated church to
a multi-faceted institution by taking a critical look at gender,
ethnicity and class. It prioritises the role of women in the
transformation and modernization of Catholic culture and represents
a radical departure from the traditional perception of the church
as an institution on the fringes of Scotland's religious and civic
landscape. It examines how Catholicism participated in
constructions of national identity and civic society.
Industrialisation, urbanisation, and Irish migration forced
Catholics and non-Catholics to reappraise Catholicism's position in
Scotland and in turn Scotland's position in England. Using
previously unseen archival material from private church and convent
collections, it reveals how the construction of a Catholic social
welfare system and associational culture helped to secure a civil
society and national identity that was distinctively Scottish.
This collection offers new perspectives on the legacy of British
colonisation by concentrating on Atlantic Canada (Nova Scotia, New
Brunswick, Newfoundland and Prince Edward Island), a region that
was pivotal to safeguarding Britain's imperial ambitions, between
1750 and 1930. New and established researchers from Canada,
Scotland and the United States engage with the core themes of
migration, dispossession, religion, identity, and commemoration in
a way that diverges markedly from existing scholarship. The
research shines much-needed light on groups traditionally excluded
from Britain's broader imperial narrative, highlighting the
indigenous experience and the presence and agency of slaves, free
people of colour and religious minorities.
Empire and Emancipation explores how the agency of Scottish and
Irish Catholics redefined understandings of Britishness and British
imperial identity in colonial landscapes. In highlighting the
relationship of Scottish and Irish Catholics with the British
Empire, S. Karly Kehoe starts an important and timely debate about
Britain's colonizer constituencies. The colonies of Nova Scotia,
Cape Breton Island, Newfoundland, and Trinidad had some of the
British Empire's earliest, largest, and most diverse Catholic
populations. These were also colonial spaces where Catholics
exerted significant influence. Given the extent to which Scottish
and Irish Catholics were constrained at home by crippling
legislation, long-established patterns of socio-economic exclusion,
and increasing discrimination, the British Empire functioned as the
main outlet for their ambition. Kehoe shows how they engaged with
and benefitted from the security needs of an expanding empire, the
aspirations of an emerging middle class, and Rome's desire to
expand its influence in British territories. Examining the
experience of Scottish and Irish Catholics in these colonies
exposes how the empire levelled the playing field for Britain's
national groups and brokered a stronger and more coherent British
identity. In highlighting specific aspects of the complex and
multifaceted relationship between Catholicism and the British
imperial state, Kehoe presents Britishness as an identity defined
much more by civil engagement and loyalism than by religion. In
this way, Empire and Emancipation furthers our understanding of
Britain and Britishness in the Atlantic world.
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