Migration and the Making of Ireland - Softcover

Fanning, Bryan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1910820253 ISBN 13: 9781910820254

Publisher: Univ College Dublin Pr, 2018

Synopsis

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 in the 1600s 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 specific migrant groups, and later chapters look at broader trends, illustrated with anecdotes of personal experience. This book 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.

About this title

About the Author:

Bryan Fanning is Professor of Migration and Social Policy at University College Dublin. He has published extensively on immigration and social change in Ireland. His previous books include Racism and Social Change in the Republic of Ireland, Histories of the Irish Future, Irish Adventures in Nation Building and, as editor, Studies: An Irish Century 1912-2012.

Review:

This book is particularly to be welcomed at a time when European ethno-nationalism of the ugliest kind is making a return across the continent in such countries as Russia, Hungary, France and even England. Fanning's book is a fresh and fascinating survey of nation-making, not as the affirmation of some kind of blood-right, but as ongoing conversation, occasional conflict, adaptation and change. --Piaras Mac Einri, The Irish Times, March 2018

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 with an interest in the subject seeking to understand the diversity of twenty-first century Irish society and especially recommended for both community and academic library International Studies collections in general, and Contemporary Ireland supplemental studies reading lists in particular. --Midwest Book Review

About this edition

• Publisher: Univ College Dublin Pr
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1910820253
• ISBN 13: 9781910820254
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 335