Mary J Hickman
Biographic Data
| ID | 144245 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mary J Hickman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mary J |
| FAMILY NAME | Hickman |
| SIGNATURE | HICKMAN M J |
| AFFILIATIONS | London Metropolitan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7394-4788 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 299 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Reflections on sociology of Irish diaspora
This article reflects on the relatively small body of work that constitutes sociology of Irish diaspora. It argues that Irish diaspora should be an expanded and higher prioritized field of study for Irish sociology
Irish Transatlantics 1980–2015, Ide B. O’Carroll (2019)
Review of: Irish Transatlantics 1980–2015 , Ide B. O’Carroll (2019) Cork: Attic Press, 324 pp., ISBN 978-1-78205-252-4, p/bk, £13.50
The 'Irish question: Marginalizations at the nexus of sociology of migration and ethnic and racial studies in Britain
Despite constituting one of the largest migrant groups, the Irish have been overlooked in most British sociological research on migration and ethnicity. We explore how this came about and examine its costs in relation to stigmatization and national security. The relative silence among British sociologists throughout the war in Northern Ireland and its impact on the Irish in England, requires further explanation. This neglect resulted in a failure…
Women and Irish diaspora identities: Theories, concepts and new perspectives
Introduction: Contemporary Irish Emigration
Migration and Social Cohesion: Appraising the Resilience of Place in London
This paper is based on research designed to understand how previous immigrations are perceived/experienced and how this informs the contemporary moment of immigration. We explored the actual lived lives and practices of both new immigrants and long‐term settled populations in six places across the UK. We were particularly interested in layered histories of migration, and historically constituted diaspora spaces, that is, the spaces of multicultur…
Women and Irish Diaspora Identities: Theories, Concepts and New Perspectives
Migration and Social Cohesion in the UK
Based on a flagship research project for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation's Immigration and Inclusion programme, this book argues that social cohesion is achieved through people (new arrivals as well as
Social cohesion and the notion of ‘suspect communities’: A study of the experiences and impacts of being ‘suspect’ for Irish communities and Muslim communities in Britain
In this article, we consider how the practice of conceiving of groups within civil society as ‘communities’ meshes with conceptualisations of certain populations as ‘suspect’ and consider some of the impacts and consequences of this for particular populations and for social cohesion. We examine how Irish and Muslim people in Britain have become aware of and have experienced themselves to be members of ‘suspect communities’ in relation to politica…
Constructing ‘suspect’ communities and Britishness: Mapping British press coverage of Irish and Muslim communities, 1974–2007
There exist many parallels between the experiences of Irish communities in Britain in the past and those of Muslim communities today. However, although they have both been the subject of negative stereotyping, intelligence profiling, wrongful arrest and prejudice, little research has been carried out comparing how these communities are represented in the media. This article addresses this gap by mapping British press coverage of events involving …
De/Constructing “Suspect” Communities: A critical discourse analysis of British newspaper coverage of Irish and Muslim communities, 1974–2007
Irish and Muslim communities in Britain are, or have often been, constructed negatively in public discourse, where they have been associated with terrorism and extremism. Despite similarities in the experiences of these communities, little comparative research has been conducted. We address this gap by implementing a critical discourse analysis of national and diaspora press coverage of events involving Irish and Muslim communities that occurred …
Census Ethnic Categories and Second-Generation Identities: A Study of the Irish in England and Wales
This article focuses on the second-generation Irish in Britain, and presents findings of the relationship between particular social characteristics and predictions of the likelihood of second-generation Irish selecting ‘White Irish’ or ‘White British’ in the 2001 Census in England and Wales. Using a combination of new quantitative data and earlier (unpublished) qualitative evidence, it analyses the complexity underlying the public claiming of a B…
Migration, postindustrialism and the globalized nation state: Social Capital and Social Cohesion Re-Examined
In Britain issues of migration are framed by the government's commitment to achieving community cohesion through embracing diversity. The social capital said to bind social cohesion is the shared values of tolerance, human rights and equality. Migrants, as outsiders, have to acquire this social capital to participate in the cultural economy of modern Britain. Failure of both new and settled migrant communities to achieve cohesiveness is seen to t…
Multiculturalism in one country
This review is persuaded by Modood's account of what multiculturalism should look like in the early twenty-first century underpinned as it is by well-made critiques of liberalism and radical secularism. But is far less convinced that Modood has successfully charted a strategy that will achieve his desired outcome of a flexible process of integration and a Britishness to which all can belong
A Response to Richard Alba
Richard Alba makes the case that the dearth of data about Catholic ethnics, for whom there are a number of reasons to seek information, is related both to the shift in focus to the greater disadvantages of women and of black and Asian minorities and to the cessation of interest in Catholic ethnics within sociology. This shift occurred once they were perceived as having accessed the middle class en masse. Alba takes Italian Americans as an exempla…
Ethnicity, Social Mobility, and Public Policy: Comparing the USA and UK
This major comparative study of the social mobility of ethnic minorities in the US and UK argues that social mobility must be understood as a complex and multi-dimensional phenomenon, incorporating the wealth and income of groups, but also their political power and social recognition. Written by leading sociologists, economists, political scientists, geographers, and philosophers in both countries, the volume addresses issues as diverse as educat…
The limitations of whiteness and the boundaries of Englishness: Second-generation Irish identifications and positionings in multiethnic Britain
The focus of this article is the second-generation Irish in England. It is based on data collected as part of the Irish 2 project, which examined processes of identity formation amongst the second-generation Irish population in England and Scotland. The article examines and maps identifications and positionings of second-generation Irish people and discusses how two hegemonic domains - Ireland and England - intersect in the lives of the children …
‘Locating’ the Irish Diaspora
This article offers an overview of the broad trends in analysis of diaspora and of analyses of the Irish diaspora. Through an assessment of the Ireland/diaspora relationship it argues for the importance of studying the Irish diaspora not only to inform wider diaspora studies and extend the ethnic historiographies which characterise much work on the Irish ‘abroad’ but also for understanding the social and cultural formation of Ireland. A case is m…
Family stories, public silence: Irish identity construction amongst the second‐generation Irish in England
Formal narratives of history, especially that of colonial oppression, have been central to the construction of national identities in Ireland. But the Irish diasporic community in Britain has been cut off from the reproduction of these narratives, most notably by their absence from the curriculum of Catholic schools, as result of the unofficial ‘denationalisation’ pact agreed by the Church in the 19th century (Hickman, 1995). The reproduction of …
Thinking Identities: Ethnicity, Racism and Culture
Binary Opposites’ or ‘Unique Neighbours’? The Irish in Multi‐ethnic Britain
Global futures: Migration, environment and globalization
IMAGINING THE GLOBAL Whither 'The Global'? A.Brah, M.Hickman & M.Ghail Imagining Globalisation: Power-Geometries of Time-Space D.Massey RISK SOCIETY AND GOVERNANCE Risk, 'Race' and Global Environmental Regulation I.Welsh Global Environmental Change Discourse the Southern Critique M.Mater Governance and the Postnational Policy Process R.Sibeon SYNERGETIC/DISCREPANT DIFFERENCES New Orientalisms, Global Capitalism N.Sum Reviewing the Western Spectac…
Reconstructing deconstructing 'race: British political discourses about the Irish in Britain
This article examines the 'forced inclusion' of the Irish within a 'myth of homogeneity' which developed in Britain from the 1950s onwards. In particular, it explains the complex reasons for exclusion of the Irish from the immigration controls introduced in the 1962 Commonwealth Immigrants Act. Further, the article challenges the notion that this exclusion of the Irish from the 1962 legislation was primarily due to their 'whiteness'. It explores …
Religion, Class and Identity: The State, the Catholic Church and the Education of the Irish in Britain
The discourse of anti-Irish racism and anti-Catholicism the articulating context of Irish migration and settlement in mid-19th-century Britain the Catholic church and Irish communities in Britain Catholic education - the segregation and differentiation of the Irish in Britain Catholic education - incorporating the Irish in Britain the 20th-century legacy - Church, community and identity
The Irish in Britain: Racism, incorporation and identity
Reconstructing deconstructing 'race: British political discourses about the Irish in Britain
This article examines the 'forced inclusion' of the Irish within a 'myth of homogeneity' which developed in Britain from the 1950s onwards. In particular, it explains the complex reasons for exclusion of the Irish from the immigration controls introduced in the 1962 Commonwealth Immigrants Act. Further, the article challenges the notion that this exclusion of the Irish from the 1962 legislation was primarily due to their 'whiteness'. It explores …
The limitations of whiteness and the boundaries of Englishness: Second-generation Irish identifications and positionings in multiethnic Britain
The focus of this article is the second-generation Irish in England. It is based on data collected as part of the Irish 2 project, which examined processes of identity formation amongst the second-generation Irish population in England and Scotland. The article examines and maps identifications and positionings of second-generation Irish people and discusses how two hegemonic domains - Ireland and England - intersect in the lives of the children …
Deconstructing Whiteness: Irish Women in Britain
The Irish are largely invisible as an ethnic group in Britain but continue to be racialized as inferior and alien Others. Invisibility has been reinforced by academic treatment Most historians have assumed that a framework of assimilation is appropriate and this outcome is uncritically accepted as desirable. Sociologists on the other hand have excluded the Irish from consideration, providing tacit support for the 'myth of homogeneity' of white pe…
Religion, Class and Identity: The State, the Catholic Church and the Education of the Irish in Britain
The discourse of anti-Irish racism and anti-Catholicism the articulating context of Irish migration and settlement in mid-19th-century Britain the Catholic church and Irish communities in Britain Catholic education - the segregation and differentiation of the Irish in Britain Catholic education - incorporating the Irish in Britain the 20th-century legacy - Church, community and identity
Migration, postindustrialism and the globalized nation state: Social Capital and Social Cohesion Re-Examined
In Britain issues of migration are framed by the government's commitment to achieving community cohesion through embracing diversity. The social capital said to bind social cohesion is the shared values of tolerance, human rights and equality. Migrants, as outsiders, have to acquire this social capital to participate in the cultural economy of modern Britain. Failure of both new and settled migrant communities to achieve cohesiveness is seen to t…
The 'Irish question: Marginalizations at the nexus of sociology of migration and ethnic and racial studies in Britain
Despite constituting one of the largest migrant groups, the Irish have been overlooked in most British sociological research on migration and ethnicity. We explore how this came about and examine its costs in relation to stigmatization and national security. The relative silence among British sociologists throughout the war in Northern Ireland and its impact on the Irish in England, requires further explanation. This neglect resulted in a failure…
Social cohesion and the notion of ‘suspect communities’: A study of the experiences and impacts of being ‘suspect’ for Irish communities and Muslim communities in Britain
In this article, we consider how the practice of conceiving of groups within civil society as ‘communities’ meshes with conceptualisations of certain populations as ‘suspect’ and consider some of the impacts and consequences of this for particular populations and for social cohesion. We examine how Irish and Muslim people in Britain have become aware of and have experienced themselves to be members of ‘suspect communities’ in relation to politica…
Constructing ‘suspect’ communities and Britishness: Mapping British press coverage of Irish and Muslim communities, 1974–2007
There exist many parallels between the experiences of Irish communities in Britain in the past and those of Muslim communities today. However, although they have both been the subject of negative stereotyping, intelligence profiling, wrongful arrest and prejudice, little research has been carried out comparing how these communities are represented in the media. This article addresses this gap by mapping British press coverage of events involving …
The Irish in Britain: Racism, incorporation and identity
Migration and Social Cohesion: Appraising the Resilience of Place in London
This paper is based on research designed to understand how previous immigrations are perceived/experienced and how this informs the contemporary moment of immigration. We explored the actual lived lives and practices of both new immigrants and long‐term settled populations in six places across the UK. We were particularly interested in layered histories of migration, and historically constituted diaspora spaces, that is, the spaces of multicultur…
De/Constructing “Suspect” Communities: A critical discourse analysis of British newspaper coverage of Irish and Muslim communities, 1974–2007
Irish and Muslim communities in Britain are, or have often been, constructed negatively in public discourse, where they have been associated with terrorism and extremism. Despite similarities in the experiences of these communities, little comparative research has been conducted. We address this gap by implementing a critical discourse analysis of national and diaspora press coverage of events involving Irish and Muslim communities that occurred …
Family stories, public silence: Irish identity construction amongst the second‐generation Irish in England
Formal narratives of history, especially that of colonial oppression, have been central to the construction of national identities in Ireland. But the Irish diasporic community in Britain has been cut off from the reproduction of these narratives, most notably by their absence from the curriculum of Catholic schools, as result of the unofficial ‘denationalisation’ pact agreed by the Church in the 19th century (Hickman, 1995). The reproduction of …
Binary Opposites’ or ‘Unique Neighbours’? The Irish in Multi‐ethnic Britain
Census Ethnic Categories and Second-Generation Identities: A Study of the Irish in England and Wales
This article focuses on the second-generation Irish in Britain, and presents findings of the relationship between particular social characteristics and predictions of the likelihood of second-generation Irish selecting ‘White Irish’ or ‘White British’ in the 2001 Census in England and Wales. Using a combination of new quantitative data and earlier (unpublished) qualitative evidence, it analyses the complexity underlying the public claiming of a B…
Integration or Segregation? The education of the Irish in Britain in Roman Catholic voluntary‐aided schools
The origins of Roman Catholic voluntary‐aided schools are examined in order to explore how the British state has dealt with its largest labour migrant group: the Irish. The argument developed is that ethnic minority issues, in particular those of integration and segregation, were at the heart of the institutionalisation of religious schools as part of the state education system in Britain. The divisions of 19th century British society embodied in…
Integration or Segregation? The education of the Irish in Britain in Roman Catholic voluntary‐aided schools
The origins of Roman Catholic voluntary‐aided schools are examined in order to explore how the British state has dealt with its largest labour migrant group: the Irish. The argument developed is that ethnic minority issues, in particular those of integration and segregation, were at the heart of the institutionalisation of religious schools as part of the state education system in Britain. The divisions of 19th century British society embodied in…
The Irish in Britain: Racism, incorporation and identity
Deconstructing Whiteness: Irish Women in Britain
The Irish are largely invisible as an ethnic group in Britain but continue to be racialized as inferior and alien Others. Invisibility has been reinforced by academic treatment Most historians have assumed that a framework of assimilation is appropriate and this outcome is uncritically accepted as desirable. Sociologists on the other hand have excluded the Irish from consideration, providing tacit support for the 'myth of homogeneity' of white pe…
Religion, Class and Identity: The State, the Catholic Church and the Education of the Irish in Britain
The discourse of anti-Irish racism and anti-Catholicism the articulating context of Irish migration and settlement in mid-19th-century Britain the Catholic church and Irish communities in Britain Catholic education - the segregation and differentiation of the Irish in Britain Catholic education - incorporating the Irish in Britain the 20th-century legacy - Church, community and identity
Reconstructing deconstructing 'race: British political discourses about the Irish in Britain
This article examines the 'forced inclusion' of the Irish within a 'myth of homogeneity' which developed in Britain from the 1950s onwards. In particular, it explains the complex reasons for exclusion of the Irish from the immigration controls introduced in the 1962 Commonwealth Immigrants Act. Further, the article challenges the notion that this exclusion of the Irish from the 1962 legislation was primarily due to their 'whiteness'. It explores …
Global futures: Migration, environment and globalization
IMAGINING THE GLOBAL Whither 'The Global'? A.Brah, M.Hickman & M.Ghail Imagining Globalisation: Power-Geometries of Time-Space D.Massey RISK SOCIETY AND GOVERNANCE Risk, 'Race' and Global Environmental Regulation I.Welsh Global Environmental Change Discourse the Southern Critique M.Mater Governance and the Postnational Policy Process R.Sibeon SYNERGETIC/DISCREPANT DIFFERENCES New Orientalisms, Global Capitalism N.Sum Reviewing the Western Spectac…
Binary Opposites’ or ‘Unique Neighbours’? The Irish in Multi‐ethnic Britain
Thinking Identities: Ethnicity, Racism and Culture
‘Locating’ the Irish Diaspora
This article offers an overview of the broad trends in analysis of diaspora and of analyses of the Irish diaspora. Through an assessment of the Ireland/diaspora relationship it argues for the importance of studying the Irish diaspora not only to inform wider diaspora studies and extend the ethnic historiographies which characterise much work on the Irish ‘abroad’ but also for understanding the social and cultural formation of Ireland. A case is m…
Family stories, public silence: Irish identity construction amongst the second‐generation Irish in England
Formal narratives of history, especially that of colonial oppression, have been central to the construction of national identities in Ireland. But the Irish diasporic community in Britain has been cut off from the reproduction of these narratives, most notably by their absence from the curriculum of Catholic schools, as result of the unofficial ‘denationalisation’ pact agreed by the Church in the 19th century (Hickman, 1995). The reproduction of …
Ethnicity, Social Mobility, and Public Policy: Comparing the USA and UK
This major comparative study of the social mobility of ethnic minorities in the US and UK argues that social mobility must be understood as a complex and multi-dimensional phenomenon, incorporating the wealth and income of groups, but also their political power and social recognition. Written by leading sociologists, economists, political scientists, geographers, and philosophers in both countries, the volume addresses issues as diverse as educat…
The limitations of whiteness and the boundaries of Englishness: Second-generation Irish identifications and positionings in multiethnic Britain
The focus of this article is the second-generation Irish in England. It is based on data collected as part of the Irish 2 project, which examined processes of identity formation amongst the second-generation Irish population in England and Scotland. The article examines and maps identifications and positionings of second-generation Irish people and discusses how two hegemonic domains - Ireland and England - intersect in the lives of the children …
A Response to Richard Alba
Richard Alba makes the case that the dearth of data about Catholic ethnics, for whom there are a number of reasons to seek information, is related both to the shift in focus to the greater disadvantages of women and of black and Asian minorities and to the cessation of interest in Catholic ethnics within sociology. This shift occurred once they were perceived as having accessed the middle class en masse. Alba takes Italian Americans as an exempla…
Multiculturalism in one country
This review is persuaded by Modood's account of what multiculturalism should look like in the early twenty-first century underpinned as it is by well-made critiques of liberalism and radical secularism. But is far less convinced that Modood has successfully charted a strategy that will achieve his desired outcome of a flexible process of integration and a Britishness to which all can belong
Migration, postindustrialism and the globalized nation state: Social Capital and Social Cohesion Re-Examined
In Britain issues of migration are framed by the government's commitment to achieving community cohesion through embracing diversity. The social capital said to bind social cohesion is the shared values of tolerance, human rights and equality. Migrants, as outsiders, have to acquire this social capital to participate in the cultural economy of modern Britain. Failure of both new and settled migrant communities to achieve cohesiveness is seen to t…
De/Constructing “Suspect” Communities: A critical discourse analysis of British newspaper coverage of Irish and Muslim communities, 1974–2007
Irish and Muslim communities in Britain are, or have often been, constructed negatively in public discourse, where they have been associated with terrorism and extremism. Despite similarities in the experiences of these communities, little comparative research has been conducted. We address this gap by implementing a critical discourse analysis of national and diaspora press coverage of events involving Irish and Muslim communities that occurred …
Census Ethnic Categories and Second-Generation Identities: A Study of the Irish in England and Wales
This article focuses on the second-generation Irish in Britain, and presents findings of the relationship between particular social characteristics and predictions of the likelihood of second-generation Irish selecting ‘White Irish’ or ‘White British’ in the 2001 Census in England and Wales. Using a combination of new quantitative data and earlier (unpublished) qualitative evidence, it analyses the complexity underlying the public claiming of a B…
Migration and Social Cohesion in the UK
Based on a flagship research project for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation's Immigration and Inclusion programme, this book argues that social cohesion is achieved through people (new arrivals as well as
Social cohesion and the notion of ‘suspect communities’: A study of the experiences and impacts of being ‘suspect’ for Irish communities and Muslim communities in Britain
In this article, we consider how the practice of conceiving of groups within civil society as ‘communities’ meshes with conceptualisations of certain populations as ‘suspect’ and consider some of the impacts and consequences of this for particular populations and for social cohesion. We examine how Irish and Muslim people in Britain have become aware of and have experienced themselves to be members of ‘suspect communities’ in relation to politica…
Constructing ‘suspect’ communities and Britishness: Mapping British press coverage of Irish and Muslim communities, 1974–2007
There exist many parallels between the experiences of Irish communities in Britain in the past and those of Muslim communities today. However, although they have both been the subject of negative stereotyping, intelligence profiling, wrongful arrest and prejudice, little research has been carried out comparing how these communities are represented in the media. This article addresses this gap by mapping British press coverage of events involving …
Women and Irish Diaspora Identities: Theories, Concepts and New Perspectives
Introduction: Contemporary Irish Emigration
Migration and Social Cohesion: Appraising the Resilience of Place in London
This paper is based on research designed to understand how previous immigrations are perceived/experienced and how this informs the contemporary moment of immigration. We explored the actual lived lives and practices of both new immigrants and long‐term settled populations in six places across the UK. We were particularly interested in layered histories of migration, and historically constituted diaspora spaces, that is, the spaces of multicultur…
Women and Irish diaspora identities: Theories, concepts and new perspectives
Irish Transatlantics 1980–2015, Ide B. O’Carroll (2019)
Review of: Irish Transatlantics 1980–2015 , Ide B. O’Carroll (2019) Cork: Attic Press, 324 pp., ISBN 978-1-78205-252-4, p/bk, £13.50
Sociology (25 works) · Irish (19 works) · Gender Studies (18 works) · Political science (18 works) · Law (16 works) · Irish and British Studies (13 works) · Law (13 works) · Politics (13 works) · Gender Studies (12 works) · Anthropology (11 works)