Immigrants are the people who leave one country behind to settle down somewhere else. Or
so the dictionary contends. While citizens and sometimes even the scholars see the …

Leaving the North is the first book that provides a comprehensive survey of Northern Ireland
migration since 1921. Based largely on the personal memories of emigrants who left …

This article seeks to understand the politics of emigrants' home country engagements, with a
particular focus on experiences in the USA. Long-distance emigrant politics, I argue, reflects …

Currently, many scholars have increasingly turned to the Internet to examine diasporic
communities and corresponding identities. While I am happy that social scientists have …

Language is pivotal in the areas of human rights protection, good governance, peace-
building, reconciliation and sustainable development. A person's right to use his or her …

Two Irelands beyond the Sea: Ulster Unionism and America, 1880-1920 uncovers the
transnational movement by Ireland's unionists as they worked to maintain the Union with …

This chapter revisits the ways in which memories are constructed but also considers
similarities and differences as to how these are represented and reproduced in both national …

A growing number of festivals celebrate 'Scots-Irish'heritage in the USA, spreading out of the
southern highlands traditionally associated with the eighteenth-century settlement of …

In this thesis I address how Cuban bloggers are contesting state sanctioned modes of civic
participation and censorship. I begin to address this question with a discussion of the …

The interdisciplinary fields of Memory Studies and Transitional Justice have largely
developed in parallel to one another despite both focusing on efforts of societies to confront …