Everyday encounters: lived realities of racialisation in post-war Britain

Irish women are positioned in Britain both by their construction as outsiders to the British nation and by their class positions in the British economy. In this chapter I explore how these racialised and classed gendered identities structure their experience. How do the discursive positions outlined in Chapter Three affect the everyday lives of Irish women in Britain? How are women identified as being ‘Irish’? What strategies are adopted in order to manage the negative consequences of identification?