Exploring Transnational and Diasporic Families through the Irish Emigration Database
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3668836 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Patrick Fitzgerald (0000-0002-0359-1390, Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 267-281 |
| Publication date | 2008-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Intercultural Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0725-6868 • E-ISSN: 1469-9540 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/07256860802169204 |
| OpenAlex | W1986712398 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 9 |
I shall begin the paper by locating myself as a migration historian and former museum curator in the area of particular attention here, that is, migration and emotion. As the paper draws almost exclusively upon material housed on the Irish Emigration Database I shall proceed with a brief description of this “virtual archive”. My particular attention will be directed towards emigrant letters and I shall review some of the evidence drawn from correspondence which particularly illustrates consciousness of what I would refer to as “family diasporas” (scatterings of individual family members worldwide who retain a sense of connection with the family home in Ireland). Thereafter, my main consideration will be with the issue of how emotion conditioned the timing of emigrant correspondence. I shall review the evidence relating to the stimuli which encouraged emigrants to “lift up their pens” to write home and present some evidence relating to patterns in the rhythm of emigrant correspondence. The issues of identity and belonging will also be addressed and I shall conclude by situating my findings in relation to the theoretical work by social scientists in this field. My paper will also point out some connections with the other papers in the special issue
Aesthetics · Art · Emigration · Epistemology · Genealogy · Irish · Linguistics · Reflexive pronoun · Sociology · History · Irish and British Studies · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,19 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2014 (5) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |