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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464911803321

Titolo

Road memories [[electronic resource] ] : aspects of migrant history / / edited by Michael Hayes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle, U.K., : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2007

ISBN

1-282-41398-8

9786612413988

1-4438-1477-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (116 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

Ó hAodhaMícheál

Disciplina

305.9/0691809415

Soggetti

Irish Travellers (Nomadic people) - History

Romanies - Ireland

Romanies in popular culture - Ireland

Immigrants in literature

Electronic books.

Ireland Ethnic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

TABLE OF CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CONTRIBUTORS

Sommario/riassunto

This volume is an exploration of the image that is the Traveler/Gypsy, the migrant and the "Other". Rapid developments as relating to the global flows of cultural diaspora have both overcome spatial/temporal distance and separation and have created enhanced necessity for the exploration of issues relating to cross-cultural and identity representation. In an age of mass migration and mass-media dissemination, a wide combination of forces have ruptured and blurred the borders of the modern nat...