Migration and the Making of Ireland - Softcover

Fanning, Professor Bryan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1910820253 ISBN 13: 9781910820254

Publisher: University College Dublin Press, 2018

Synopsis

Migration and the Making of Ireland richly explores accounts of migrant experiences across more than four centuries. The motivations that drove migration to Ireland and emigration from Ireland since the Plantation of Ulster are assessed. Political, economic and legal circumstances that made emigration and immigration possible or necessary are considered. Commonalities and differences across space and time between the experiences of incoming and outgoing migrants, with a strong emphasis on the recent waves of immigration that are re-shaping twenty-first century Ireland, are deeply explored. Early chapters examine the experiences of seventeenth-century settlers together with the experiences of those who left Ireland, eighteenth-century German Palatine immigrants, Jews who arrived during the late nineteenth century, the experiences of recent African, Polish and Muslim immigrants and many other groups. In each case, later chapters look at broader trends are illustrated with examples of the experiences of individuals and families who have journeyed to and from Ireland. Several cross-cutting themes are organically addressed throughout the book, including the role of family and communities in shaping decisions to migrate; experiences of emigration and immigration; the role of law as it relates to freedom of movement, rights to work and citizenship entitlements; and economic factors that influence decisions to migrate. Migration and the Making of Ireland is a landmark contribution to our understanding of modern Ireland and will be essential reading for anybody seeking to understand the diversity of twenty-first century Irish society.

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"A landmark contribution to our understanding of modern Ireland that is unreservedly recommended as an outstanding work of meticulous scholarship, Migration and the Making of Ireland will be essential reading for students and non-specialist general readers." -- Midwest Book Review "Midwest Book Review"

About this edition

• Publisher: University College Dublin Press
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1910820253
• ISBN 13: 9781910820254
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 300