Deconstructing Diasporas: Networks and Identities among the Irish in Buffalo and Toronto, 1870–1910
Deconstructing Diasporas: Networks and Identities among the Irish in Buffalo and Toronto, 1870–1910
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解构侨民：1870-1910 年布法罗和多伦多爱尔兰人的网络和身份
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2005
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William Jenkins
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William Jenkins
为了响应最近关于爱尔兰移民历史中比较视角和跨国视角整合的呼声，本文描述了 1870 年至 1910 年间在两个北美城市的爱尔兰社区内建立的各种网络，并特别探讨了它们在个人和群体身份形成中的作用。布法罗和多伦多的案例研究被用来强调空间和历史偶然性在理解不仅仅是一个而是几个相互关联的爱尔兰侨民地理方面的重要性。对这些城市的关注还揭示了在工业化加剧时期，这些网络对美国和加拿大爱尔兰背景的天主教徒和新教徒的日常生活和社会景观产生的影响。正如这项研究所示，网络将这些移民的经济、文化、宗教和政治领域社会联系起来，同时也将他们的所在地与在更广泛的地理范围内运作的社会领域联系起来。
With a view to contributing to recent calls for the integration of comparative and transnational perspectives in Irish migration history, this essay describes various networks established within Irish communities in two North American cities from 1870 to 1910, and explores their role in personal and group identity formation in particular. Case studies from Buffalo and Toronto are used to underscore the importance of spatial, as well as historical, contingency in appreciating the geographies of not simply one, but several, interrelated Irish diasporas. Focusing on these cities also illuminates the difference that these networks made to the everyday lives and social landscapes of Catholics and Protestants of Irish background in the United States and Canada during a period of intensified industrialisation. As this study shows, networks socially interconnected economic, cultural, religious and political spheres for these migrants, while also linking their localities to social fields operating at wider geographical scales.