Irish 'Ingleses': The Irish Immigrant Experience in Argentina, 1840-1920 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780716530077)

This is the first book-length analysis of the Irish in Argentina. The experience of the Irish in Argentina was qualitatively different from that of Australia, Britain, or the United States, and this study employs a comparative methodology both in relation to the more established Irish immigrant destinations, as well as to European immigration as a whole. Against established destinations of nineteenth-century Irish settlement, Argentina was unique. Separated immediately from the native populace by language and culture, Irish immigrants were quickly identified by the governing Argentine hosts into the broader English-speaking community with ambivalent consequences for the Irish migrants. The distinct socio-economic advantages experienced by 'Ingleses' within a particularly Euro-centric Argentina facilitated and encouraged the diminution of ethnic distinctions. But the conflicting identities which emerged contributed to the distinct development of the Irish community within this unique nineteenth-century Latin environment.

Author: Helen Kelly
ISBN-10: 0716530074
ISBN-13: 9780716530077
Publisher: Irish Academic Press
Language: English
Published: 06/16/2009
Pages: 250
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.20w x 1.10d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2009 pg. 79