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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788992603321

Titolo

Travellers, gypsies, Roma [[electronic resource] ] : the demonisation of difference / / edited by Michael Hayes and Thomas Acton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

1-282-41397-X

9786612413971

1-4438-1476-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (137 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

O hAodhaMicheal

ActonT. A (Thomas Alan)

Disciplina

305.5/6809417

Soggetti

Marginality, Social - Ireland

Irish Travellers (Nomadic people)

Romanies - Ireland

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; CHAPTER TEN; CONTRIBUTORS

Sommario/riassunto

This volume hopes to act as a catalyst for some new and exciting areas of enquiry in the more "liminal" interstices of Irish Studies, Traveler Studies, Romani Studies and Diaspora and Migration Studies. These disciplines are all relatively new areas of enquiry in modern Ireland, a country whose society has witnessed very rapid and wide-ranging cultural and demographic change within the short space of a decade. The issue of multiculturalism is not one which is particularly new to Irish soci...