Other People's Diasporas: Negotiating Race in Contemporary Irish and Irish American Culture

by Sinéad Moynihan

With the economic rise of the "Celtic Tiger" in the 1990s, Irish culture was deeply impacted by a concurrent rise in immigration. A nation tending to see itself as a land of emigrants suddenly saw waves of newcomers. In this book, Moynihan takes as her central question a formulation by sociologist Steve Garner: "What happens when other people's diasporas converge on the homeland of diasporic people?" Approaching the question from a cultural rather...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815633106
• ISBN13: 9780815633105
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"