ABSTRACT
The majority of Irish women have arrived in Britain as labour migrants, and their lived experience in Britain is crucially influenced by their places of work on a number of geographical scales. These have determined the nature of work, its demands and financial rewards, and the social positioning of Irish women relative to the dominant majority and other subordinated minorities. They are the contexts of diasporic ‘placement’ in areas where Irish women have established their ‘homes away from home’. These placings within local, regional, and subordinate national, contexts offer a more nuanced relationship to the majority British nationalism which excludes Irishness.
