Outsiders Inside

Whiteness Place and Irish Women

Bibliographic Data

ID8089002
AuthorsBronwen Walter (0000-0001-7085-8553, corresponding author), Walter B Staff
Year2002
Pages320
Publication date2002-05-03
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueOutsiders Inside (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9780203432174
OpenAlexW4230016223
Open LibraryOL33364569M
ISBN9780203432174
LanguageEN
Citations received66

Notions of diaspora are central to contemporary debates about 'race', ethnicity, identity and nationalism. Yet the Irish diaspora, one of the oldest and largest, is often excluded on the grounds of 'whiteness'. Outsiders Inside explores the themes of displacement and the meanings of home for these women and their descendants. Juxtaposing the visibility of Irish women in the United States with their marginalization in Britain, Bronwen Walter challenges linear notions of migration and assimilation by demonstrating that two forms of identification can be held simultaneously. In an age when the Northern Ireland peace process is rapidly changing global perceptions of Irishness, Outsiders Inside moves the empirical study of the Irish diaspora out of the 'ghetto' of Irish Studies and into the mainstream, challenging theorists and policy-makers to pay attention to the issue of white diversity

Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Interdisciplinary Cultural and Social Studies · Irish and British Studies · Psychology

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