ABSTRACT
Diaspora offers a conceptual framework within which Irish women’s migration to Britain may be reevaluated. It allows the specificity of emigrant experience in Britain to be highlighted by comparing and contrasting women’s lives according to their destinations, whilst simultaneously viewing different destinations as part of the same process. In this chapter the comparison is made with the very large outflow of Irish women to the United States over the last two centuries. The aim therefore is to explore both differences and connections, providing new perspectives on migration flows and subsequent settlement.
