...This chapter presents three films that deal with homelessness and migration: Qu’ils reposent en révolte (Sylvain George, 2011) about migrants in Calais; Au bord du monde/On the Edge of the World (Claus Drexel, 2014) on homeless people in central Paris...

...This chapter examines the role of Irish migrants in the high crime rate of Liverpool during the nineteenth century. It explains that Liverpool's criminal class had long been synonymous with the lower orders of Irish migrants and their descendants and that most of the Irish people who came...

...This chapter examines the conditions of the poor Irish migrants in Liverpool during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It explains that the Irish poor often sought warmth and comfort in brightly lit public houses and some of them also lived in subterranean dwellings. There were around 39,000...

... indicates that the first–generation migrants clung to their Englishness but regional and national differences became blurred within three generations, once the New Zealand–born were in the ascendancy. Anglophilia Auckland New Zealand Ireland Irish locating English diaspora Mulgan Alan New Zealand...

...This chapter concentrates on the work of the Fairbridge Society, which was responsible for about half of all child migrants who travelled to Australia, and emphasises some of the distortions that can creep into popular mythology as particular social issues become fashionably shocking. It focuses...

... came only a few years after the 2008 financial crisis, which was a time when anxieties, fears, and tension toward migrant populations were at a high in Europe. In this chapter she explores Serbian (re)engagement with the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), an organization that lost most of its cultural capital...

... as an instituting process—constructing the Croatian identification with the West and othering and racializing the migrants and refugees. capitalism discourse hate speech periphery refugee crisis social networks socio economic problems xenophobia Croatian government “race to the bottom” strategy...

... with a host of poor migrants from other parts of the contemporary Jewish world, fleeing various combinations of war, persecution, economic depression, and unemployment and lured to Amsterdam by the reputed wealth of the Amsterdam Portuguese. Castile and Aragon Jews’ expulsion from Catholicism Conversos...

...This chapter, which introduces the main themes covered in Part I of the book, discusses the increase in Irish migrants in Britain after the Second World War and presents an overview of Chapters 3 to 6. Catholicism county allegiances Ireland county associations Irish dancehalls Delaney Enda...

... in the post-war years. The analysis focuses on how the authors navigate the border between the facts and fictions of this specific migrant milieu, and how this, in turn, influences the identities of their subjects. Celtic Tiger employment England outside London homogeneity Irish migration history...

...This chapter examines two early novels by Edna O'Brien: Girls in Their Married Bliss (1964) and Casualties of Peace (1966). It argues that the experiences of O'Brien's migrant protagonists can be read as thought experiments on the part of their author...

... About It Leitch Celtic mythology Dolan Frank Foster R F McCool Jim McDonnell Alex Mac Lua Brendán Irish literati London Irish migrants Irish writers diaspora Brendan Behan Patrick Kavanagh Anthony Cronin Donall Mac Amhlaigh satire The prospects for pursuing a literary career...

... Once a Catholic O'Malley Real People Wingfield White Teeth Smith Wingfield Sheila women Zangwill Israel Irish migrants cultural identity Britain London Irish literature After a lapse of time, the past becomes a mythical country – a dreamscape. Memory is a literary exercise: it shapes our...

...This chapter focuses on Irish migrants who, along with the Poles, occupy a pioneer (if unenviable) status in the historiography of migration and ethnicity. Irish migrants were unusually well-tailored for the role of servicing other people's industrial revolutions. Young unmarried adults...

..., family, and relationships; wage rates; and welfare. It concludes that by the 1970s it had become difficult to attract young people to the fishing careers due to onshore job opportunities, poor fishing wages, and poor personal relationship prospects. Fishing Migrants Taiwanese Fishing Vessels Taiwanese...

...This chapter addresses Irish migration during 1947–57, specifically the geographical origins of the migrants. The topography of the effect of Irish migration to Britain is reported. The insufficiency of steady employment in a neighbourhood was a deciding factor in the decision to migrate...

... migrants to Wales, comparing it with that of other migrants and offering case studies of Irish settlement in a number of Welsh towns. Attention is also given to anti-Irish protest movements in the late nineteenth century and to the later imprisonment of Irish Republicans. The chapters examine in depth...

... the trustworthiness of another person (business partner, employer or employee) was difficult to verify, and contracts were not always easily maintained by law. Non-familial collectives like these therefore formed a welcome addition to family ties and could even go so far as to replace family for migrants, widows...

...Advancing public dialogue surrounding the issues of migrants and refugees, the volume explores the dynamic representations of the recent movement of people from and through the Balkans. It investigates how people within the Balkans view their others, how the West regards the Balkans, and how...

...This chapter analyzes the treatment of African migrants in the works of Calixthe Beyala. It examines the representation of Paris in the eyes of Beyala's migrant characters and explores the personal trajectories of Beyala's migrants as they attempt to reconcile competing sets of cultural...