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When migrants fail to stay: new histories on departures and migration Immigrants & Minorities Pub Date : 2024-03-09 Eureka Henrich
Published in Immigrants & Minorities: Historical Studies in Ethnicity, Migration and Diaspora (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Book review: Americans in waiting by Hiroshi Motomura Immigrants & Minorities Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Stephanie Pedron
Published in Immigrants & Minorities: Historical Studies in Ethnicity, Migration and Diaspora (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Exegi monumentum: monuments of Jews in public spaces in Budapest as texts (1880–1944) Immigrants & Minorities Pub Date : 2024-02-25 Borbála Klacsmann, Andrea Pető
The late 19th and early 20th centuries were a period when artistic endeavours, aimed at expressing a national identity, were thriving in Hungary. The Jewish minority of Budapest also found it impor...
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Aliens: the chequered history of Britain’s wartime refugees Immigrants & Minorities Pub Date : 2023-10-16 Kenneth Lunn
Published in Immigrants & Minorities: Historical Studies in Ethnicity, Migration and Diaspora (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Chinese Sojourners in Wartime Raj Immigrants & Minorities Pub Date : 2023-08-16 Helena F. S. Lopes
Published in Immigrants & Minorities: Historical Studies in Ethnicity, Migration and Diaspora (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Returning to Ireland from Australia 1880-1925 Immigrants & Minorities Pub Date : 2023-07-28 Dianne Hall, Loretta Dynan
This article analyses Irish migrants and their descendants who returned either permanently or temporarily to Ireland in the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century. Data for return of Irish-born mi...
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Chapters of Accidents: A Writer’s Memoir Immigrants & Minorities Pub Date : 2023-07-13 Anne J Kershen
Published in Immigrants & Minorities: Historical Studies in Ethnicity, Migration and Diaspora (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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The persistence and malleability of settlerness: Danube Swabians in Entre Rios/Guarapuava (Paraná, Brazil) Immigrants & Minorities Pub Date : 2023-06-28 Cristian Cercel
This article interrogates and contextualises the settler identification discourses related to Danube Swabians in Entre Rios/Guarapuava in southern Brazil (Paraná). It looks into the origins of Danu...
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NS-Verfolgte nach der Befreiung: Ausgrenzungserfahrungen und Neubeginn Immigrants & Minorities Pub Date : 2023-04-21 Matthew Stibbe
Published in Immigrants & Minorities: Historical Studies in Ethnicity, Migration and Diaspora (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Black Handsworth: Race in 1980s Britain Immigrants & Minorities Pub Date : 2023-01-27 Natalie Thomlinson
Published in Immigrants & Minorities: Historical Studies in Ethnicity, Migration and Diaspora (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Global White Nationalism: From Apartheid to Trump Immigrants & Minorities Pub Date : 2022-10-26 Liam Liburd
Published in Immigrants & Minorities: Historical Studies in Ethnicity, Migration and Diaspora (Ahead of Print, 2022)
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Indian Casualties of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in New Zealand Immigrants & Minorities Pub Date : 2022-10-09 Michael Roche, Sita Venkateswar
ABSTRACT The Indian population in New Zealand numbered less than 200 out of 1.1 million in 1916. The impact of the 1918 influenza pandemic on the population was never-the-less considerable. The paper, using various sources, seeks to identify the victims and their life courses while situating them within the standard historical accounts of the pandemic in New Zealand.
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‘Feindliche Ausländer’ im Deutschen Reich während des Ersten Weltkrieges Immigrants & Minorities Pub Date : 2022-09-26 Matthew Stibbe
Published in Immigrants & Minorities: Historical Studies in Ethnicity, Migration and Diaspora (Ahead of Print, 2022)
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The Fate of the Jews in the Early Islamic Near East: Tracing the Demographic Shift from East to West Immigrants & Minorities Pub Date : 2022-09-23 Maryam Ghasemnejad
Published in Immigrants & Minorities: Historical Studies in Ethnicity, Migration and Diaspora (Ahead of Print, 2022)
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Forging Identities in the Irish World: Melbourne and Chicago, c.1830–1922 Immigrants & Minorities Pub Date : 2022-07-17 Elizabeth Malcolm
Published in Immigrants & Minorities: Historical Studies in Ethnicity, Migration and Diaspora (Ahead of Print, 2022)
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How the Second World War and Its Aftermath Shaped a Sense of Identity Amongst Older Italians in the North East of England Immigrants & Minorities Pub Date : 2022-07-08 Simona Palladino
ABSTRACT Italian migrants’ experiences of hostility in the UK have remained on the margins of history. However, several older members of Italian communities live with memories of trauma and injustice experienced during their youth or in the early years of migration. Through an ethnographic approach, this study explores the impact of the Second World War amongst members of the Italian community living
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Legacy of Violence Immigrants & Minorities Pub Date : 2022-06-05 Robert Brown
Published in Immigrants & Minorities: Historical Studies in Ethnicity, Migration and Diaspora (Ahead of Print, 2022)
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Publisher’s Note Immigrants & Minorities Pub Date : 2022-05-27 Arvindh Sivaprakasam
Published in Immigrants & Minorities: Historical Studies in Ethnicity, Migration and Diaspora (Vol. 40, No. 1-2, 2022)
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Migration Narratives: Diverging Stories in Schools, Churches, and Civic Institutions Immigrants & Minorities Pub Date : 2022-05-08 April-Louise Pennant
Published in Immigrants & Minorities: Historical Studies in Ethnicity, Migration and Diaspora (Vol. 40, No. 3, 2022)
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Changes in Attitudes to Immigration in Britain, 1841-1921 Immigrants & Minorities Pub Date : 2022-05-05 Colin Holmes
Published in Immigrants & Minorities: Historical Studies in Ethnicity, Migration and Diaspora (Vol. 40, No. 3, 2022)
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Contested Concepts in Migration Studies Immigrants & Minorities Pub Date : 2022-05-05 Luana Franco Rocha
Published in Immigrants & Minorities: Historical Studies in Ethnicity, Migration and Diaspora (Ahead of Print, 2022)
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Der lange Schatten der Revolution: Juden und Antisemiten in Hitlers München 1918-1923 Immigrants & Minorities Pub Date : 2022-05-05 Matthew Stibbe
Published in Immigrants & Minorities: Historical Studies in Ethnicity, Migration and Diaspora (Vol. 40, No. 3, 2022)
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Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America Immigrants & Minorities Pub Date : 2022-05-05 Stephanie Pedron
Published in Immigrants & Minorities: Historical Studies in Ethnicity, Migration and Diaspora (Vol. 41, No. 1-3, 2023)
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Southampton’s Migrant Past and Present Immigrants & Minorities Pub Date : 2022-05-05 Panikos Panayi
Published in Immigrants & Minorities: Historical Studies in Ethnicity, Migration and Diaspora (Vol. 40, No. 3, 2022)
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Islam in Victorian Liverpool: An Ottoman Account of Britain’s First Mosque Community Immigrants & Minorities Pub Date : 2022-05-05 Haseeb Khan
Published in Immigrants & Minorities: Historical Studies in Ethnicity, Migration and Diaspora (Vol. 41, No. 1-3, 2023)
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Vénus Noire: Black Women and Colonial Fantasies in Nineteenth Century France Immigrants & Minorities Pub Date : 2022-05-05 Ashwiny O. Kistnareddy
Published in Immigrants & Minorities: Historical Studies in Ethnicity, Migration and Diaspora (Vol. 41, No. 1-3, 2023)
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Colonial Citizenship and Everyday Transnationalism: an Immigrant’s Story Immigrants & Minorities Pub Date : 2022-04-28 Andrekos Varnava
Published in Immigrants & Minorities: Historical Studies in Ethnicity, Migration and Diaspora (Vol. 41, No. 1-3, 2023)
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Failed Führers. A History of Britain’s Extreme Right Immigrants & Minorities Pub Date : 2022-04-20 Colin Holmes
Published in Immigrants & Minorities: Historical Studies in Ethnicity, Migration and Diaspora (Vol. 41, No. 1-3, 2023)
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Colonial Citizenship and Everyday Transnationalism: An Immigrant’s Story Immigrants & Minorities Pub Date : 2022-04-20 Andrekos Varnava
Published in Immigrants & Minorities: Historical Studies in Ethnicity, Migration and Diaspora (Ahead of Print, 2022)
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Immigration and Entrepreneurship in Chile during the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Immigrants & Minorities Pub Date : 2022-04-20 Ricardo Nazer Ahumada, Manuel Llorca-Jaña
ABSTRACT Based on census records (both of total population and commercial-industrial), and an extensive review and synthesis of the secondary literature, this article analyses the importance and impact of immigration on the economic development of Chile, in particular on entrepreneurship and the changing composition of the main business groups of the country. We provide a sketch of the main entrepreneurs
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Migrant City. A New History of London Immigrants & Minorities Pub Date : 2022-04-20 Tony Kushner
Published in Immigrants & Minorities: Historical Studies in Ethnicity, Migration and Diaspora (Vol. 41, No. 1-3, 2023)
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Refugees in Twentieth-Century Britain: A History Immigrants & Minorities Pub Date : 2022-04-19 Peter Gatrell
Published in Immigrants & Minorities: Historical Studies in Ethnicity, Migration and Diaspora (Vol. 41, No. 1-3, 2023)
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Border Control and Undesirables in Britain and Australia Immigrants & Minorities Pub Date : 2022-03-29 Andrekos Varnava, Marinella Marmo, Evan Smith
Abstract ‘Undesirables’ explores the various border control practices employed against migrant communities that have been branded as undesirable by the authorities, including exclusion, deportation, monitoring and detention. The contemporary approaches to undesirable migrant groups have deep historical connections. This special issue offers evidence that current policy and practices are products of
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‘Border Control and Monitoring “Undesirable” Cypriots in the UK and Australia, 1945–1959’ Immigrants & Minorities Pub Date : 2021-11-03 Andrekos Varnava
ABSTRACT This article explores why and how the British and Australian authorities monitored their British Cypriot communities and how this impacted upon their respective immigration policies in connection with British Cypriots. Both the British and Australian authorities monitored sections of the British Cypriot community for similar reasons, especially political, using similar techniques, yet adopted
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Rethinking Gender, Citizenship, and War: Female Enemy Aliens in Australia during World War I Immigrants & Minorities Pub Date : 2021-11-03 Rachel Bright
ABSTRACT Enemy aliens were undesirable migrants in Australia during World War I, right? Yet enemy alien women who sought naturalisation were largely successful. Using the concept of ‘desire’, this article uses quantitative and qualitative material from women’s naturalisation applications to consider why women applied and subsequent state decision-making. The narratives of applicants and administrators
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Continuity and Durability of Violent Border Policies and Practices Directed at Undesirable Migrants in Britain and Australia: Some Reflections on the Past–present Continuum Immigrants & Minorities Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Marinella Marmo
ABSTRACT Using an interdisciplinary approach of critical historical and border criminology, this paper sheds light on the continuity and durability of the violent gendered-racialised border regime impacting ‘undesirable migrants’. With a focus on Britain and Australia, this article argues that border policies and practices have been constructed and maintained since the nineteenth century to the present
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Undesirable British East African Asians. Nationality, Statelessness, and Refugeehood after Empire Immigrants & Minorities Pub Date : 2021-10-21 Sara Cosemans
ABSTRACT In 1972, upon expulsion from Uganda by Idi Amin, diasporic Asians, who had settled in East Africa during colonial times, underwent a second stage of global dispersal. Many of them managed to resettle in the United Kingdom, despite anti-immigrant sentiments and increasingly restrictive immigration legislation. Other large groups arrived in India and Canada. One group, however, got scattered
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Migrant Acculturation via Naturalisation: Comparing Syrian and Greek Applications for Naturalisation in White Australia Immigrants & Minorities Pub Date : 2021-09-07 Andonis Piperoglou
ABSTRACT In 1903, the Commonwealth Australian government passed the Naturalisation Act (1903). Acquiring naturalisation, however, was not straightforward in a country that was concerned about its ‘foreign element’. A key legal requirement of the Act stipulated that ‘a person resident in the Commonwealth, not being a British subject, and not being an aboriginal native of Asia, Africa, or the Islands
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Group Rights and Individual Minority Rights in Immigrant Societies, Then and Now Immigrants & Minorities Pub Date : 2021-09-02 David Abraham
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The Cameroonians of Alsace: An African Diaspora in Europe Immigrants & Minorities Pub Date : 2021-09-02 Lucie Zouya Mimbang
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Ottoman, Anatolian, Greek, yet above All American: Evolving Identifications and Cultural Appropriations Immigrants & Minorities Pub Date : 2021-09-02 Yannis G. S. Papadopoulos
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Grief, a Wedding Veil, and Bureaucratic Persecution: Becoming Refugee-adjacent in the Aftermath of Tragedy, 1941-1946 Immigrants & Minorities Pub Date : 2021-09-02 Lauren Banko
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'Cause for Concern'? Policing Black Migrants in Post-War Britain (1945-68) Immigrants & Minorities Pub Date : 2021-08-05 Simon Peplow
ABSTRACT This article explores how Black migrants were routinely considered to be a ‘cause for concern’ in post-war Britain, identified as ‘undesirables’ and subjected to discriminatory policing practices. Despite the police’s professed ‘colour-blind’ approach of ‘non-differentiation’ – often raising difficulties or contradictions when called on for their observations – characterisations of Black people
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Old Prejudices and New Prejudices: State Surveillance and Harassment of Irish and Jewish Communities in London – 1800-1930 Immigrants & Minorities Pub Date : 2021-07-27 Daniel Renshaw
ABSTRACT This article examines the relationship between the ‘othering’ of Irish and Jewish communities in London up to the end of the 1920s, and punitive action and harassment against these minorities on the part of the British state. Beginning by looking at early articulations of antisemitic and anti-Irish prejudice, it will consider how the associations of both groups with radical politics and transgressive
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Indian Suffragettes: Female Identities and Transnational Networks Immigrants & Minorities Pub Date : 2021-05-18 Priya Atwal
vital; it is also timely in migration research. If, as the book shows, in the absence of ‘safe, legal paths to seeking refuge and opportunity, new barriers are forcing migrants to pursue more dangerous journeys and seek the services of more established mafias and criminal organizations’ (p.5), then new migration policies are urgently needed. Spending 229 million US dollars in 2014 alone to deport illegal
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Bordering Britain: Law, Race and Empire Immigrants & Minorities Pub Date : 2021-04-29 Robert Brown
these experiences, and to construct a sense of self that could incorporate them. This is an excellent book, which demonstrates the complexities of life in early Cold War Britain and works to show how the military and civilian worlds were linked, not just in times of total war, but also during a more traditional war, which directly affected few, but for which consent still had to be won. If it reaches
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A Study of Double Consciousness in Lauri Lemberg’s St. Croix Avenue and Paula Ivaska Robbins’ Below Rollstone Hill Immigrants & Minorities Pub Date : 2021-04-23 Mehdi Ghasemi
ABSTRACT In this paper, I analyse the Du Boisian concept of ‘double consciousness’ and offer an overview of its different implications. I then approach Lauri Lemberg’s St. Croix Avenue and Paula Ivaska Robbins’ Below Rollstone Hill from the perspective of this concept. A comparative study of these novels enables me to detect and contextualise cases of double consciousness within both texts as related
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The Caribbeanization of Black Politics: Race, Group Consciousness, and Political Participation in America Immigrants & Minorities Pub Date : 2021-03-29 James West
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The Korean War in Britain. Citizenship, Selfhood and Forgetting Immigrants & Minorities Pub Date : 2021-03-28 Lucy Noakes
world. During the years 1914–20 they faced internment, expropriation, deportation and ultimately expulsion ‘back’ to Germany – all without much practical assistance or moral support from Berlin. How did this impact on their feelings towards the German fatherland? The volume’s focus is on belligerent states only. Yet in fact many of the questions it poses might equally be asked of countries that remained
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Migrant Identity and Culture Maintenance: The Welsh in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, USA, 1880-1920 Immigrants & Minorities Pub Date : 2021-03-25 Robert Llewellyn Tyler
ABSTRACT This paper provides an analysis of the nature of the Welsh ethno-linguistic community in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The study considers culture maintenance, and suggests that although Welsh ethnic integrity was initially maintained due to linguistic ability, occupational specialisation and the creation of vibrant cultural institutions
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Nations, Identities and the First World War: Shifting Loyalties to the Fatherland Immigrants & Minorities Pub Date : 2021-02-22 Matthew Stibbe
Three overall arguments emerge from this stimulating volume of essays, edited by the Belgian scholars Nico Wouters and Laurence van Ypersele and based on an international conference held in Brussel...
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Religious Politics in Turkey: From the Birth of the Republic to the AKP Immigrants & Minorities Pub Date : 2021-02-22 Elizabeth Bishop,Victoria Elizondo
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Policing Transnational Protest: Liberal Imperialism and the Surveillance of Anticolonialists in Europe, 1905-1945 Immigrants & Minorities Pub Date : 2021-02-22 Evan Smith
a time period, or topic of inquiry. It is our opinion that the volume’s editors missed the mark when attempting to reach a novice audience interested in learning about Turkish secularism. Providing a list of abbreviations and an expansive chronological table tracing the Ottoman Era to present day (2017), Cambridge University Press attempted to condense a massive amount of time and information in a
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Enfranchisement as a Tool for Integration: The 1975 Extension of Voting Rights to Resident Aliens in Sweden Immigrants & Minorities Pub Date : 2021-02-14 Martin Ericsson
ABSTRACT In 1975, Sweden extended voting rights in local elections to immigrants without Swedish citizenship (resident aliens). In this essay, motives behind the reform are analysed and it is argued that these were based on a wish to speed up the integration of immigrants rather than on normative ideas about the nature of democracy. In fact, the reform was seen as a part of the emerging Swedish integration
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The Migration of Irish-born Players to Undertake US Soccer Scholarships, 1969-2000 Immigrants & Minorities Pub Date : 2021-01-02 Conor Curran
ABSTRACT This article examines the migration of Irish-born soccer players to the United States of America to take up soccer scholarships in the late twentieth century. It will show that while Irish athletes had been moving to the universities there to undertake athletic scholarships since the late 1940s, it was not until the late 1960s that soccer players began to be recruited. Irish-American cultural
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Richard K. Fox, the National Police Gazette and Ireland’s Sporting Memory Immigrants & Minorities Pub Date : 2021-01-02 Conor Heffernan
ABSTRACT Born in Belfast in 1846, Richard K. Fox emigrated to the United States in 1874 and, from there, eventually began a sporting empire which shaped American sport during the late nineteenth-century. Beginning work with the National Police Gazette in 1876, Fox turned the magazine into one of the most influential, and widely read, magazines in the United States. Focusing on boxing, wrestling, strength
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The London Olympics 1908: The Games of the Irish Diaspora Immigrants & Minorities Pub Date : 2021-01-02 Tom Hunt
ABSTRACT The Olympic Games of 1908 featured Irish-born emigrant athletes representing the United States, Canada and Great Britain whilst Irish-domiciled athletes also represented the latter. The competitors of the Diaspora enjoyed an exceptional success rate especially those representing the USA and Canada. The USA success in athletics was powered by members of the Irish-American Athletic Club (I-AAC)
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Daniel O’Leary and the Sporting Experiences of Irish Immigrants in the United States Immigrants & Minorities Pub Date : 2021-01-02 Ryan Murtha,Thomas M. Hunt
ABSTRACT During the 1870s, Daniel O’Leary was the biggest sporting star in the United States. The champion race-walker (or pedestrian, to use the language of the times) was renowned for his speed and his endurance, and travelled the country from San Francisco to New York to put on athletic displays for massive crowds. The newspapers held O’Leary up as an American hero, despite the fact that he was
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‘Sport and Irish Migration: New Perspectives on its History and Development’ Immigrants & Minorities Pub Date : 2021-01-02 Conor Curran,Conor Heffernan
In 2020 it was announced that mixed martial arts superstar Conor McGregor will fight Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao, a former World Champion at a record eight different weights, and the current WBA Welterweight Super Champion, in an exhibition boxing match in the Middle East. At the time of writing the bout appears to be in danger, with agents claiming uncertainty as to whether or not it will go ahead
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‘It’s a Cultural Pull for the Irish Abroad’: Gaelic Games and the Irish Community in Twentieth and Twenty-first Century London Immigrants & Minorities Pub Date : 2021-01-02 Frances Harkin
ABSTRACT The GAA essentially performs two key roles in London: on the one hand, functioning as a familiar institution providing opportunities to take part in activities with a tangible link to ‘home’; on the other hand, representing a marker of identity. An examination of the role of Gaelic games in London is timely as various academic fields are increasingly focusing upon the role of cultural practices