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Rituals of Migration: Italians and Irish on the Move

Rituals of Migration: Italians and Irish on the Move

Kenny, Kevin
Marinari, Maddalena

Hardcover

Series: The Glucksman Irish Diaspora, Book 11

General Racism & Ethnic StudiesImmigration & RefugeesIrish History

ISBN10: 1479825131
ISBN13: 9781479825134
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: Jun 17 2025
Pages: 264
Weight: 1.20
Height: 1.30 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Italian and Irish immigrant experiences

When people migrate, they often perform social and cultural rituals along the way. The idea of rites of passage--with its elements of preparation, departure, transit, admission, exclusion, expulsion, and return--helps us understand these moments in the process of migration in new and meaningful ways.

Rituals of Migration offers snapshots of Italian and Irish migrants on the move from the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries. The essays in this volume examine the particular moments, actions, sentiments, and material objects in the process of migration--at the point of departure, in transit, and in the process of return. Because rites and rituals feature both nonverbal and verbal expression, migration history can be understood by studying physical objects as well as written sources. The authors focus on rituals created by migrants and their descendants, but they also consider the actions of officials who regulated migrants' departure, travel, admission, exclusion, and removal. By examining what people did, thought, felt, and packed on the eve of their departures, during their journeys, and when returning to their homelands, Rituals of Migration reveals how everyone involved in the immigration process, including the migrants themselves, the families they left behind, and those in charge of regulating their mobility, have tried to make sense of a process filled with peril, uncertainty, excitement, and opportunity.

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