Crossing migrant frontiers: Comparative reflections on Irish migrants in Britain and the United States during the nineteenth century

MacRaild, Donald M.

doi:10.1080/02619288.1999.9974968

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“…Divergent histories such as these have prompted scholars of Irish migration such as Campbell (1995), MacRaild (2000), and Kenny (2003) to emphasize the value of comparative approaches. Kenny's recent writing has argued that cross-national observations of a given migrant group, though revealing, also require integration with a transnational perspective, with the appropriate scale of inquiry being``typically at the urban or regional rather than the national context'' (2003, page 150).…”

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Identity, Place, and the Political Mobilization of Urban Minorities: Comparative Perspectives on Irish Catholics in Buffalo and Toronto 1880–1910

Jenkins

2007

Environ Plan D

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In this paper the political fortunes and identities of Irish Catholics in US and Canadian cities are explored through a comparative study of Buffalo and Toronto. Local spaces of political administration in the urban arena, such as wards, were significant in affecting the generation of sociopolitical networks of power which in turn had implications for the sense of political identity and involvement felt by Irish Catholics within these two places. The importance of such spaces, however, was also contingent on the interaction between these cities' Irish Catholic populations and wider geographies of social, economic, and ethnoreligious relations over time as well as on the topographies and traditions of political power that extended beyond the municipal scale in both societies.

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confidence: 99%