The hidden history of the PFIs
The repatriation of unmarried mothers and their children from England to Ireland in the 1950s and 1960s
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8074508 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paul Michael Garrett (0000-0002-8200-8377, a Lecturer in Social Work in the Centre for Social Work, School of Sociology and Social Policy , University of Nottingham, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 25-44 |
| Publication date | 2000-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Immigrants & Minorities (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0261-9288 • E-ISSN: 1744-0521 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02619288.2000.9974998 |
| PMID | 17607864 |
| OpenAlex | W2049215005 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
| References cited | 33 |
The circumstances related to the 'repatriation', from Britain to Ireland, of Irish unmarried mothers and their children has still to be explored by social historians. One reason for this omission is connected to the absence of women and children within Irish historiography. None the less, adoption agency records throw light on the 'repatriation' process in the 1950s and 1960s. In seeking to understand the way that Irish unmarried mothers were responded to, it is necessary to have regard to the more encompassing and dominant professional discourse on unmarried mothers and child adoption during this period. Importantly, however, the treatment of these women and the practice of 'repatriation' needs also to take into account other historically rooted, exclusionary practices directed at Irish migrants to Britain
Agency (philosophy · Historiography · Irish · Period (music · Political science · Repatriation · Social science · Sociology · Canadian Identity and History · Gender Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · History · Irish and British Studies · Law
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Irish Social Workers in Britain and the Politics of (Mis) Recognition
Names in adoption law and policy
"Amplifying the "White Noise
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Getting `a grip
Sinbin' solutions
Leaving Home
The white essential subject
Unmarried Mothers’ in the Republic of Ireland
The research politics of (re)naming participants
Adjusting 'our notions of the nature of the State
The sociology of critical diasporan epistemology
Racism after 'race relations'
The Making of Modern Irish History
Erin's Daughters in America
Writing Women’s History
Studies in the Social Services. History of the Second World War
The Unmarried Mother and Her Child
Internal migration and the negotiation of citizenship; the struggle for reproductive self-determination in Ireland
The Luckless Waifs and Strays of Humanity‘
Pictures from the Margins of Marriage
Responding to Irish ‘invisibility’
Almost a class of helots in an alien land’
Defining womanhood
Irish immigration and the 'condition of England' question
Birth Mothers and their Mental Health
An agenda for women’s history in Ireland, 1500–1900
An agenda for women’s history in Ireland, 1500–1900
From Women's Suffrage to Reproduction Rights? Cross-national Considerations 1
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The abnormal flight
The Lost Children
Understanding Contemporary Ireland
Outsiders Inside
Nationalism and historical scholarship in modern Ireland
Gendering the irish diaspora
Without a Wedding-Ring
Sectarian Violence
Irishness, Gender, and Place
Deconstructing Whiteness
Silences
Governing the Soul - a Quarter of a Century On
Cartographies of Diaspora
| Unique citing works | 15 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,63 |
| Citation span | 2002 - 2025 (24) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 15 |