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ISBN 10: 0415260019

ISBN 13: 9780415260015

Author: Breda Gray

Women and the Irish Diaspora looks at the changing nature of national and cultural belonging both among women who have left Ireland and those who remain. It identifies new ways of thinking about Irish modernity by looking specifically at women’s lives and their experiences of migration and diaspora. Based on original research with Irish women both in Ireland and in England, this book explores how questions of mobility and stasis are recast along gender, class, racial and generational lines. Through analyses of representations of ‘the strong Irish mother’, migrant women, ‘the global Irish family’ and celebrity culture, Breda Gray further unravels some of the complex relationships between femininity and Irish modernity(ies).

Table of contents:

1: ‘Women’, the diaspora and Irish modernity(ies)
The Irish game of sexuality on ‘controlled’ and ‘globalised’ modernities
Emigration and ‘the Irish diaspora’ in the 1990s
Conclusion

2: ‘Keeping up appearances’ and the contested category ‘Irish women’
Irish femininities in the 1990s
Feminists, women in paid work and ‘women in the home’
Icons of Irish femininity – negotiating contradictory legacies
Conclusion

3: ‘We haven’t really got a set country’: Global mobilities and Irish Traveller women
Irish Traveller mobilities and national belonging
Telling ‘the difference’ – the ideology of domesticity and Traveller women
Contested histories and multicultural belonging(s)
Inhabiting Irish identity as Traveller women in England
Conclusion

4: ‘The bright and the beautiful take off …’: Gendered negotiations of staying and going
Resistance, choice, agency and staying put
Impermissible narratives of migration and belonging
‘Suspect’ belongings – migrant relationships to the ‘homeland’
Conclusion

5: ‘Are we here or are we there?’: Migrant Irish identity in 1990s London
Class, generation, ‘homeland’ and Irish identity in London
Irish migrant femininities in London
Women’s transnational lives – hybrid or divided selves?
‘Peg’ communities and multicultural London
Religion and London-Irish identity
Conclusion

6: ‘The Irish are not “ethnic”’: ‘Whiteness’, femininities and migration
Whitely scripts
Citizenship and migration in proximity
Cultural exclusion and racial inclusion
A transnational ‘white’ Irishness?
Conclusion

7: Women, the diaspora and the ‘global Irish family’: Feminist contentions
The ‘global Irish family’
Blurring the migrant/non-migrant dichotomy
Conclusion

Appendix 1: Background demographic information sheet/ interview and group discussion schedule
Demographic background sheet
Interview/group discussion schedule

Appendix 2

Appendix 3: Profile of participants Ireland, London and Luton
Ireland: nine individual interviews and nine focus groups (not all participants returned demographic information)
London and Luton: nine individual interviews, five focus groups (London) and one focus group (Luton) (not all participants returned demographic information)

Appendix 4: Summary profiles of the [participants who] took part in this study

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