'Women', the diaspora and Irish modernity(ies) -- 'Keeping up appearances' and the contested category 'Irish women' -- 'We haven't really got a set country' -- Global mobilities and Irish traveller women -- 'The bright and the beautiful take off ... ' gendered negotiations of staying and going -- 'Are we here or are we there?' -- Migrant Irish identity in 1990s London' -- The Irish are not "ethnic" ' -- 'whiteness', femininities and migration -- Women, the diaspora and 'the global Irish family' -- Feminist contentions
Summary
Based on original research with Irish women both at home and in England, this book explores how questions of mobility and stasis are recast along gender, class, racial and generational lines
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 196-218) and index
