Migrant Communities
Key Texts
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Ian Whyte, 'Migration and settlement' and Chris Williams, 'British identities' in Chris Williams (ed.), Companion to Nineteenth-century Britain
- David Feldman, 'Migration' in Martin Daunton (ed.), Cambridge Urban History of Britain, vol 3
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Charles Booth archive: http://booth.lse.ac.uk/
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Census data (see Term 1, seminar 2)
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Modern Records Centre collection on Immigration and the Jewish Community
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Special Issue, Immigrants and Minorities, 2007:
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Roger Swift and Sheridan Gilley, 'Irish identities in Victorian Britain'
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Roger Swift, 'Identifying the Irish in Victorian Britain: recent trends in historiography'
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Malcolm Smith and Donald MacRaild, 'The origins of the Irish in Nothern England'
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Mervyn Busteed, 'Resistance and respectability: dilemmas of Irish migrant politics'
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Sheridan Gilley, 'English Catholic attitudes to Irish Catholics'
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Bronwen Walter, 'Stangers on the inside: Irish women servants in England'
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Alan O'Day, 'A conundrum of Irish Diasporic identity'
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Laura Vaughan and Alan Penn, 'Jewish Immigrant Settlement Patterns in Manchester and Leeds 1881'. Urban Studies, 43 (2006)
Seminar Questions
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Assess the views of immigrant communities contained within Booth's survey of London
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Using the census, explore the characteristics of a particular immigrant community? Were particular communities treated differently?
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Examine the various motivations for emigration and the relative importance of ‘push-pull’ factors
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What was the social and economic background of emigrants?
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How integrated were immigrant communities in the Victorian city?
Further Reading
Special Issue, Immigrants and Minorities, vol 18, 1999: The Great Famine and Beyond: Irish Migrants in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (especially articles by Swift, Busteed, and Kanya-Forstner. Also published as a book edited by Donald MacRaild
Carl Chinn, '"We all come from round Sora" : Italians in Birmingham, c.1821-1919', in Owen Ashton, Robert Fyson and Stephen Roberts (eds), The Duty of discontent
Joseph Buckman, Immigrants and the class struggle: the Jewish immigrant community in Leeds, 1880-1914
Graham Davis, The Irish in Britain, 1815-1915
Todd Endelman, The Jews of Britain, 1656 to 2000
David Englander (ed.), A documentary history of Jewish immigrants in Britain, 1840-1920
David Fitzpatrick, 'A peculiar tramping people: the Irish in Britain, 1801-70' in W E Vaughan (ed.), A new history of Ireland, vol. 5
Paul DiFelice, ‘Italians in Manchester, 1891-1939’, Local Historian, 2000
Diane Frost, ‘Ethnic identity, transience and settlement: the Kru in Liverpool’, Immigrants and Minorities, 1993
Peter Fryer, Staying power: The history of Black people in Britain since 1504
Lloyd Gartner, The Jewish Immigrant in England, 1870-1914
Andrew Godley, 'Enterprise and culture : Jewish immigrants in London and New York, 1880-1914.' Journal of Economic History, 54 (1994)
Cora Kaplan, 'White, black and green : racialising Irishness in Victorian England', in Peter Gray, Peter (ed.), Victoria's Ireland?
Lynn Hollen Lees, Exiles of Erin: Irish Immigrants in Victorian London
Colin Holmes: John Bull's Island: Immigration and British Society, 1871-1971
Panikos Panayi, Immigration, Ethnicity and Racism in Britain (see also the documents at the end of the book)
D M McRaild, Írish culture in an English context’, Labour History Review, 1993
M A G O'Tuatiagh, 'The Irish in 19th century Britain: problems of integration', Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, vol 31
Bernard Porter, The refugee question in mid-Victorian politics
Lucio Sponza and Arturo Tosi (eds), A century of Italian emigration to Britain, 1880-1980s
Lucio Sponza, Italian immigrants in 19th century Britain: realities and images
R Swift & S Gilley (eds), The Irish in the Victorian City
R Swift, 'The outcast Irish in the British Victorian city: problems and perspectives', Irish Historical Studies (1987)
Susan Tananbaum, ‘Philanthropy and identity: gender and ethnicity in London’, Journal of Social History, 1997
Rozina Visram, Ayahs, Lascars and Princes: the story of Indians in Britain, 1700-1947
James Walvin, Black and white : the negro and English society, 1555-1945
James Walvin, The black presence : a documentary history of the negro in England, 1555-1860