Homeward Bound: Return Migration from Ireland and India at the End of the British Empire (The Glucksman Irish Diaspora Series) by Niamh Dillon
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Overview: Firsthand accounts of migrants who settled in Britain offer new insights into empire, belonging, migration, and diaspora
Homeward Bound shines a light on a neglected aspect of twentieth-century migration history. It compares two groups of migrants―Southern Irish Protestants and the British in India―who “returned” to Britain from Ireland and India after independence in 1922 and 1947. By looking across national boundaries, Niamh Dillon explores both individual and collective narratives of imperial identity in the late British Empire and the prompts for return.
For both groups, the success of national independence movements in the first half of the twentieth century was cataclysmic and prompted a large-scale migration to Britain. Between 1911 and 1926, the number of Protestants in the Irish Free State dropped from approximately 313,000 to 208,000, and much of the British population left India. Although these numbers are significant, these two groups have largely been ignored by historians and have not been compared before.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History
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