‘I never could forget my darling mother’: the language of recollection in a corpus of female Irish emigrant correspondence

Moreton, Emma

doi:10.1080/1081602x.2016.1155469

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“…The evidence base used to study older historical crises and related migrations, such as in research on famine and population movements in historical China (Huang et al, 2003; Pei, Lee, and Zhang, 2018) and the Maya lowlands in Central America (Hoggarth et al, 2017), is vastly different to those used to survey contemporary cases, making comparative analysis unfeasible. Studies that focus on the aftereffects of famine–migration at places of destination, especially when they are not directly related to the dynamics of the famine itself. Examples are analyses of the memory of famine in diasporic communities (McCarthy, 2008; Corporaal and King, 2014; Moreton, 2016), the urbanising effects of migration (Lees and Modell, 1977), and the long‐term ecological ramifications of internal migration (Ouedraogo et al, 2012). Studies interested in famine–migration's implications for international law and humanitarian norms.…”

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“…Studies that focus on the aftereffects of famine-migration at places of destination, especially when they are not directly related to the dynamics of the famine itself. Examples are analyses of the memory of famine in diasporic communities (McCarthy, 2008;Corporaal and King, 2014;Moreton, 2016), the urbanising effects of migration (Lees and Modell, 1977), and the long-term ecological ramifications of internal migration (Ouedraogo et al, 2012). 7.…”

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Fleeing mass starvation: what we (do not) know about the famine–migration nexus

Sadliwala¹

2020

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The relationship between famine and migration has not been studied adequately to date. A systematic review of scholarship centred on famine and its demographic, political, and socioeconomic effects demonstrates the paucity of academic attention to the issue. This paper surveys the dominant hypotheses and findings regarding the connection between famine and migration. It delineates key questions that an interdisciplinary and case-based exploration of the subject should address, highlighting gaps in the literature with respect to population-level analyses. Primary observations about the literature reviewed include tenuous generalisations about the linkage between famine and migration and partial examination of the role of politics in enabling or prohibiting mobility during hunger-related crises. In addition, disciplinary silos influence which particular aspects of a famine are scrutinised and which are not appraised. In view of these concerns, international legal and humanitarian norms governing migration also need to pay closer attention to its association with famine.

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Fleeing mass starvation: what we (do not) know about the famine–migration nexus

Sadliwala¹

2020

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“…There is a large, primarily French literature on lexicométrie, see for instance (Guilhaumou 2002, Tournier 1975. Emma Moreton (2016) has studied Irish migrant letters with corpus analysis.…”

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The simultaneity of feeling German and being American: Analyzing 150 years of private migrant correspondence

Krawatzek

Sasse

2018

Migration Studies

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Abstract Analyzing the long-term dynamics of migrant integration is a significant challenge for researchers. This paper traces how ‘ordinary’ German-speaking migrants in the USA expressed their sense of participation and belonging throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries in the letters they wrote to their families ‘back home.’ We study a large collection of migrant letters written by German-speaking immigrants in the USA between 1830 and 1970 and analyze this new data with methods of computerized text analysis. The investigation shows how migrants continuously make and re-make identities within and across their heterogeneous migrant ‘groups.’ Our paper highlights the strong incentives for social and cultural integration in the absence of restrictive host state policies. We also show that political events and crises affecting both the country of origin and the destination country act as a catalyst in redefining, at least temporarily, parts of the migrant identities in relation to both the sending and host states.

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“The More Please [Places] I See the More I Think of Home”: On Gendered Discourse of Irishness and Migration Experiences

Avila-Ledesma

Amador-Moreno

2016

Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics 2016

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‘I never could forget my darling mother’: the language of recollection in a corpus of female Irish emigrant correspondence

Cited by 8 publications

References 21 publications

Fleeing mass starvation: what we (do not) know about the famine–migration nexus

Fleeing mass starvation: what we (do not) know about the famine–migration nexus

The simultaneity of feeling German and being American: Analyzing 150 years of private migrant correspondence

“The More Please [Places] I See the More I Think of Home”: On Gendered Discourse of Irishness and Migration Experiences

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