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

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

Migration Letters, 2009, vol. 6, issue 1, 37-47

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Celtic Tiger; diasporic responsibility; immigration dis-course; Irish emigration; immigration to Ireland (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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