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Discourses of diasporic responsibility in Ireland: The modern moment and the discursive costs of moving

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  • Aaron Thornburg

    (Department of Cultural Anthropology, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States.)

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In this paper, I offer a critical reflection regarding the rhetorical employment of an analogy between mid-nineteenth-century, Fam-ine-age emigrants from Ireland and non-Irish-national immigrants that have been increasingly present in the Republic of Ireland since the mid-1990s. While this discursive device is considered to be po-litically correct, cosmopolitan, and/or accepting of recent migrants to Ireland, I maintain that drawing the comparison between Fam-ine-age and earlier emigrants from Ireland and current-day immi-grants to the island supports the characterization of non-Irish-national residents as less than modern and incapable of integration into Irish society.

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  • Aaron Thornburg, 2009. "Discourses of diasporic responsibility in Ireland: The modern moment and the discursive costs of moving," Migration Letters, Migration Letters, vol. 6(1), pages 37-47, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:mig:journl:v:6:y:2009:i:1:p:37-47
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