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This too is from Zetoc...

A number of items of interest to IR-D...

P.O'S.


IRISH POLITICAL STUDIES
VOL 19; NUMB 1; 2004
ISSN 0790-7184

pp. 1-17
The Politics of Noraid
Hanley, B.

pp. 18-38
The Politics of Nuance: Irish Official Discourse on Northern Ireland
Hayward, K.
pp. 39-58

Chronicle of a Death Foretold? Understanding the Decline of Fine Gael O
Malley, E.; Kerby, M.

pp. 59-73
The Ulster Unionist Party and the Bannside By-Election 1970 Walker, G.

pp. 74-86
The Northern Ireland Assembly Election 2003 Farrington, C.

pp. 87-99
Unionist Political Attitudes after the Belfast Agreement Ginty, R. M.

pp. 100-101
Social Attitudes in Northern Ireland: The Ninth Report edited by Katrina
Lloyd, Paula Devine, Anne Marie Gray and Deirdre Hennan Tonge, J.

p. 102
Peace in Ireland: The War of Ideas by Richard Bourke Watson, S.

p. 103
Commemorating Ireland: History, Politics, Culture edited by Eberhard Bort
Ginty, R. M.
pp. 104-105

A Memoir by Terry de Valera
Maume, P.

pp. 106-108
Ireland, Germany and the Nazis: Politics and Diplomacy, 1919-1939 by Mervyn
O'Driscoll Murphy, G.

p. 109
Harry Boland's Irish Revolution by David Fitzpatrick Farrington, C.

pp. 110-111
A History of the Ulster Unionist Party: Protest, Pragmatism and Pessimism by
Graham Walker Cochrane, F.

pp. 112-114
Robert Emmet and the Rebellion of 1798 Robert Emmet and the Rising of 1803
by Ruan O'Donnell Elliott, M.

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And of course every now and again STUDIES has something of interest...

P.O'S.

STUDIES -DUBLIN-
VOL 93; NUMB 371; 2004
ISSN 0039-3495

pp. 261-268
Human Embryonic Stem Cells and Cloning: Science and Bioethics at a
Crossroads Clynes, M.

pp. 269-279
Stem Cell Research: Science and Philosophy Murphy, S.

p. 280
Ad Liminem - A Poem
Duill, G. O.

pp. 281-294
Informed Consent and Medical Research
Doran, K.

pp. 295-307
Palliative Care: A Modern Concept with an Old Tradition Quinn, S.

p. 308
Change - A Poem
Gallagher, M.

pp. 309-322
Bridging the disability gap to create new opportunities for all Little, J.

pp. 323-335
Marlborough House: A case study of State neglect Keating, A.

p. 336
The Lost Roundness of the World - A Poem Woods, M.

pp. 337-348
Self-immolative martyrdom: Explaining the Irish Hungerstrike Tradition
Sweeney, G.

pp. 349-362
Paisleyism: A Theological Inquiry
Southern, N.

pp. 363-368
Patenting Life? Stop! Is corporate greed forcing us to eat genetically
engineered food?, by Sean McDonagh Leen, M.

pp. 369-371
Bishop Edward Thomas O'Dwyer of Limerick, 1842 - 1917, by Thomas J.
Morrissey, S.J Gaughan, J. A.

p. 372
Coming Out: Irish Gay Experiences, edited by Glen O'Brien O Donoghue, F.

pp. 373-374
RTE and the Globalisation of Irish Television, by Farrel Corcoran Cullen, J.

pp. 375-377
Reconciling Catholicism and Feminism? Personal Reflections on Tradition and
change, eds. Sally Barr Ebest and Ron Ebest Kennedy, F.

pp. 378-379
A Terrible Beauty - An Illustrated History of Irish Battles, by Martin Marix
Evans McCarthy, P.

pp. 380-381
The Irish Revival Reappraised, Betsey Taylor FitzSimon and James H. Murphy
eds O Brien, E.

pp. 382-383
The Revision of European History, by Desmond Fennell Roantree, D.

pp. 384-387
God and the Embryo: religious voices on stem cells and cloning, edited by
Trent Waters and Ronald Cole-Turner O Cuinn, C.

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Forwarded on behalf of
Professor James Holstun, Chair of the Search Committee, Department of
English, University at Buffalo, 306 Clemens Hall, Buffalo, New York,

-----Original Message-----

I teach at SUNY Buffalo in Buffalo, New York, and I'm chairing my
department's search this year for an assistant or associate professor in
Irish literature and culture. I would be grateful if you would alert any
doctoral students or recent Ph.D.s whom you think might be interested in
this position.

I will clip the MLA advertisement below. Thank you for your help, and I
hope you are well.

Sincerely,

James Holstun

Professor of English



Job Opening: Assistant or Associate Professor of Irish Literature and
Culture

Tenure-track Assistant Professor or Associate Professor in Irish literature
and culture, to start Fall, 2005. Candidates must demonstrate an ability to
teach solid and innovative undergraduate literature courses. Candidates must
also bring fresh perspectives to the study of Irish literature as
demonstrated by a record of writing and teaching interests appropriate to
seminars in a large M.A./Ph.D. program.

Teaching load (2/2), salary, benefits, and privileges competitive with other
Research I-AAU universities. Please submit letter of application and CV to
Professor James Holstun, Chair of the Search Committee, Department of
English, University at Buffalo, 306 Clemens Hall, Buffalo, New York,
14260-4610, by November 15, 2004. All applications will be acknowledged.
Please visit the Department website at http://www.english.buffalo.edu//. The
University at Buffalo is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Recruiter. Women and
minorities are encouraged to apply.

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From: "Murray, Edmundo"


Dear IAHS and Ir-D Members,

We are happy to announce the posting of new contents to the web site of =
the
Irish Argentine Historical Society: www.irishargentine.org

- "Dr. John O'Dwyer Creaghe (1841-1920) Irish-Argentine Anarchist" by
M=E1irt=EDn =D3 Cath=E1in.

- "The Black Frigate" by Eduardo C. Gerding.

- "Voices from the Camps". New interviews: Mrs. Casey of Duggan Town, =
Mrs.
Mackay, Mrs. Sills II, Eduardo Coghlan, Hilda Sabato, Maria Elena Walsh,
Edmundo Moore.

- "Dictionary of Irish-Argentine Biography". New entries: John O'Dwyer
Creaghe, John Bolster, Robert Gore.


In addition, the web site has a new, user-friendly design.

Contact:

Edmundo Murray=20
The Irish Argentine Historical Society
edmundo.murray[at]irishargentine.org
www.irishargentine.org

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Sending them all out is great for me. I find them very valuable.
Kerby

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...Anyway, suddenly many more TOCs are available - and I am not sure what to
do
with them. Sending the occasional one out to the Irish Diaspora list is ok
- but sending a constant stream is maybe not ok...?

Does anyone have any thoughts on this? Might it be better to post the TOCs
somewhere on the Web - like Thaddeus Breen used to do. I have contacted
Thaddeus, to see if he has any new plans...

I have pasted in below the web address of Zetoc - note that it is available
only to UK academics and other odds and ends like myself...

P.O'S.

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I too am very grateful for the TOCs you post. It has become an
indispensable. - Bruce

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Sending them all out is great for me. I find them very valuable.
Kerby

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From: Maureen E Mulvihill
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I surely 'second' Kerby Miller's reply.

I, too, find the TOC postings tremendously useful. This regular stream of
information over the IrD List keeps me current. Much appreciated, here in
the States.

In the spirit, colleagues - MEM

_______

> From: Miller, Kerby A
> MillerK[at]missouri.edu]
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>
>
> Sending them all out is great for me. I find them very valuable.
> Kerby
>

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P.O'S.

Title: The spoilt children of Europe: German press coverage of the Nice
Treaty referenda in Ireland
Author(s): Helen Kelly-Holmes ; Veronica O'Regan
Source: Journal of Language and Politics Volume: 3 Number: 1 Page: 81
-- 116
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Abstract: Ireland's rejection of the Nice Treaty in a referendum in June
2001 led to intense media discourse about this no vote and speculation about
the outcome of the second referendum to ratify the Treaty in October 2002.
The German media, traditionally positive in their portrayal of Ireland, were
particularly critical, with the Irish electorate being characterised as
anti-Eastern enlargement and Ireland recast in the role of bad European.
This study of German press coverage of the two referenda points to a
consensus in the negative representation of Ireland across all strands of
media opinions and ideologies. The corpus of texts analysed also highlights
the construction of a them and us divide between a morally superior in-group
(the Germans) and a defective out-group (the Irish). Whilst much of the
reporting still takes place within a received map of meaning (Hall et al.
1978), the established reference points are now used to de-legitimise
Ireland's role and to reassert Germany's position as a big country within
Europe in order to restore normal power relations.

C 2004 John Benjamins Publishing Company
Keywords: EU Enlargement; media discourse; political discourse; Nice Treaty;
German-Irish relations; power relations

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P.O'S.


Title: Innovation in language contact
Author(s): Kevin McCafferty
Source: Diachronica Volume: 21 Number: 1 Page: 113 -- 160
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Abstract:
The be after V-ing gram has been used in representations of Irish English
since the seventeenth century. In early texts it often has future meanings
that have been regarded as inauthentic because the Irish Gaelic construction
that is the source of the gram is a perfect. This article accounts for the
coexistence of future and perfect uses as an outcome of the interaction of
two types of language transfer: the gram was 'borrowed' ('pull transfer')
into English by English-speakers as well as being 'imposed' ('push
transfer') on English by Gaelic-speakers. In borrowing the gram,
English-speakers attributed to after prospective senses that grammaticalise
as futures, especially desire and goalward movement. In imposition,
Gaelic-speakers and language-shifters used be after V-ing as a perfect, in
line with retrospective meanings of after and the semantics of the Gaelic
construction. Both transfer types occurred simultaneously, though future
uses dominated the record until the mid-eighteenth century. This gave way to
a century of change until mid-nineteenth century, and perfect senses have
dominated since the 1850s. The timing coincides with the spread of
bilingualism and language shift: as more Irish shifted to English,
imposition became the dominant transfer type. Thus, future uses are an
outcome of 'negotiation' in the contact between Gaelic and English: Gaelic
contributed the structure and perfect semantics, English the future
semantics. Comparison with a crosslinguistic model of future
grammaticalisation shows future uses of be after V-ing to conform to the
development typical of future grams.

C 2004 John Benjamins Publishing Company

Keywords: Irish English; language contact; language transfer;
grammaticalisation; tense-aspect; future; hot-news perfect

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Paddy

I think it is a wonderful service and appreciate the time you invest in
typing them out.

Brian

> From: Bruce Stewart
> bsg.stewart[at]ulster.ac.uk
> Subject: RE: [IR-D] Zetoc and TOCs
>
> I too am very grateful for the TOCs you post. It has become an
> indispensable. - Bruce

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From: Dr Brenda Murphy
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Subject: TOC's

Uni of Malta has limited publications. Please DON'T stop mailing TOC's.
Thanks for your efforts

Brenda

Dr Brenda Murphy
University of Malta, Department of Communications Studies, Room 211, Lecture
Centre, University of Malta, Msida, Malta MSD 06
Tel: ++356 23402420 Fax: ++356 21345655 http://staff.um.edu.mt/bmur1/

Research interests - constructions of identity/consumption of advertising,
diaspora, gender and the media

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Subject: Encyclopedia of the Irish in America

Although it's highlighted in E. R. Hamilton's home page, I neglected to draw
IR-D members' attention to the fact that the U.S.-based firm does not ship
overseas.
Apologies for that oversight.
Anyone in Europe or elsewhere who wishes to order it could perhaps have a
U.S. colleague buy it and then ship it independently?

Brian McGinn
Alexandria, Virginia
bmcginn2[at]earthlink.net

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Forwarded on behalf of
David Valone,


Quinnipiac University is located in Hamden, Connecticut, USA.

P.O'S.

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Ireland's Great Hunger: Representation and Preservation

Quinnipiac University will host its second major academic conference on
Ireland's Great Hunger on September 17, 2005. The conference will be =
held in
conjunction with the opening of an exhibition of Quinnipiac's =
unparalleled
holdings of famine commemorative art. This artwork is part of the An =
Gorta
Mor collection of documents, printed materials, paintings, and sculpture
relating to the famine and its impact on Ireland and the world. It is
showcased in the Lender Family Special Collection Room in Quinnipiac's
Arnold Bernhard Library.

We invite submissions from scholars working on all dimensions of the =
Great
Hunger. Particularly welcome are proposals that fit the themes of the
conference. We are especially interested in:

*representations of the Great Hunger
in art, language, literary and historical works;
at commemorative sites; and
in popular memory.
*papers on aspects of famine preservation, particularly

the preservation of famine era records; issues of archival =
management,
access, and funding; and other ways the famine has been preserved,
culturally, intellectually, and biologically.

Deadline for submissions is March 15, 2005.

Established and younger scholars are encouraged to submit proposals.

Proposals for individual papers and/or full sessions should include =
names of
participants with a c.v. and 250-500 word summary of each paper. We
anticipate publishing a selection of the papers in a volume that will be
assembled subsequent to the conference. Funds will be available to
reimburse some of the travel and lodging expenses of those delivering
papers.

Direct proposals or inquiries via post or email to David Valone, =
Director of
Scholarly and Cultural Programs, The College of Liberal Arts, Mail Code
CL-AC3, Quinnipiac University, Hamden, CT 06518.
Phone 203-582-5269; fax 203=FA-582-3471. Email:
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I second Kerby's response.

Dale

On Mon, 01 Nov 2004 17:06:34 +0000, "Patrick O'Sullivan" wrote:

> From: Miller, Kerby A
> MillerK[at]missouri.edu]
> Subject: RE: [IR-D] Zetoc
>
>
> Sending them all out is great for me. I find them very valuable.
> Kerby
>
> ________________________________

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Dear all,

I wonder whether someone could direct me towards publications that focus on
the _transit_ of Irish (and other) migrants through St John (New Brunswick)
heading for the US. More generally, how common was re-migration to the US of
Irish who were previously _settled_ in New Brunswick or, indeed, elsewhere
in Canada?

Many thanks for any advice!

Oliver Marshall

Centre for Brazilian Studies
University of Oxford
oliver.marshall[at]brazil.ox.ac.uk

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Yes, I too find them very useful and am very grateful to have them
circulated - although I thought perhaps there was some issue of website
propriety involved that you wanted us to comment on. But maybe they
encourage it.

Thanks,

Peter Hart

>From: DALE LIGHT JR
>dbl1[at]psu.edu]
>Subject: Re: [IR-D] Zetoc and TOCs
>
>I second Kerby's response.
>
>Dale
>

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It seems to have been very common in Newfoundland in the mid- and
late-nineteenth century but many such people were well settled before moving
on to the `Boston states' as they were still referred to in my childhood.
Girls became domestic servants, men worked at many things, including
occupying a large niche in High Steel work, including on the twin towers, as
a new book of that title discusses.

As to how specifically Irish this was, no one has really investigated.

Peter Hart

>From: Oliver Marshall
>oliver.marshall[at]brazilian-studies.oxford.ac.uk
>Subject: St John, New Brunswick & onward migration
>
>Dear all,
>
>I wonder whether someone could direct me towards publications that
>focus on the _transit_ of Irish (and other) migrants through St John
>(New Brunswick) heading for the US. More generally, how common was
>re-migration to the US of Irish who were previously _settled_ in New
>Brunswick or, indeed, elsewhere in Canada?
>
>Many thanks for any advice!
>
>Oliver Marshall
>
>Centre for Brazilian Studies
>University of Oxford
>oliver.marshall[at]brazil.ox.ac.uk
>

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To: Patrick O'Sullivan
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Peter Toner of the Univ. of New Brunswick is the expert on these issues.
Try contacting him at .
KM

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IR-D members might be interested in a this inter-disciplinary dust-up, in
Aberdeen, Scotland, between Steve Bruce and Tom Devine... Tom Devine is
quoted as saying "My principal view is that Professor Bruce's discipline is
not capable of understanding the subtleties of this debate."...

An extract from Scotland on Sunday below...

P.O'S.

Bigotry experts won't see eye to eye

EDDIE BARNES

WITH its peaceful quadrangle, and the 500-year-old King's College chapel at
its heart, the ancient University of Aberdeen apparently offers a perfect
glimpse into the serene world of academia.

But in what could have been the plot for a classic David Lodge campus novel,
it has now become the setting for a very bitter feud which is set to
re-ignite the fierce row over one of Scotland's most contentious subjects:
sectarianism.

Two of its most eminent academics have clashed over the subject, following
highly controversial claims by one of them that far from sectarianism being
the Scottish disease, it no longer exists.

Professor Steve Bruce, head of the University's School of Social Science,
author of 18 books on religion and politics, and veteran of more than a
decade studying the Troubles at Queen's University in Belfast, declared in
his most recent book that claims of a major conflict between Catholics and
Protestants in Scotland were "scaremongering".

Anti-bigotry groups have howled with indignation at Bruce's claims, pointing
to the continuing scar of religious hatred which they claim still afflicts
the west of Scotland.

Now Bruce is being taken on by one of his own colleagues, Professor Tom
Devine, bestselling author of The Scottish Nation, Professor of Irish and
Scottish Studies at the University, and proud owner of the Royal Medal, the
highest academic accolade given in Britain.

In the courtly manner in which academics do battle, the pair plan to set out
their competing theses at a head-to-head debate to be called 'Myth and
Reality', which will be staged with deliberate irony on St Valentine's Day
next year.

FULL TEXT AT...
http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=1179822004

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Anthropology and Migration: Essays on Transnationalism,
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It seemed worth sharing this H-Migration book review with the IR-D list.
The reviewer, Steve Garner of the University of the West of England,
Bristol, makes connections between Caroline Brettell's book on the
Portuguese diaspora, and a number of things of interest to IR-D - like the
work of Breda Gray... He also mentions the ESRC research programme on
'transnationalism' - see my earlier IR-D messages about this programme over
the years...

Without going over old ground, I have looked at that Special Edition of the
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 27 [4] 2001... Surely there must
be more to research that the generating of new combinations of abstract
nouns...

P.O'S.

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From: H-Net Network on Migration History
Subject: review: Caroline Brettell Anthropology and Migration: Essays on
Transnationalism, Ethnicity and Identity

Caroline Brettell
Anthropology and Migration: Essays on Transnationalism, Ethnicity and
Identity Walnut Creek CA, Altamira Press, 2003. xxi + 239 pp.
Tables, references, index.
ISBN 0-7591-0320-8 [Paper]

Reviewed for H-MIGRATION by Steve Garner, School of Sociology, University of
the West of England, Bristol.

Gendered Migration from the Bottom Up

Anthropologist Caroline Brettell has been writing on the Portuguese diaspora
since 1977, and in the course of her research has focused on the themes of
gender, ethnicity, the importance of place, the roles played by return
migration and the meanings attached by migrants to their own stories. This
book is a collection of essays published at various times over the 1979-1996
period, and is split into four thematic sections; "Situating the
Anthropological Perspective"; "Return Migration, Transmigrants and
Transnationalism"; "Cities, Immigrant Communities and Ethnic Identity", and
"Gender and Migration". Each section contains two or three essays and is
prefaced by short introductory pieces placing them in context.

Bretell's approach is laid out in the first introductory essay. "An
anthropological approach to migration should emphasize both structure and
agency; it should look at macro-social contextual issues, micro-level
strategies and decision-making, and the meso-level relational structure
within which individuals operate. It needs to articulate both people and
process" (p.7).

In "Migration Stories", Brettell posits that much can be learned about
migration from individual stories, since migration is as much a cultural as
a material phenomenon. This is a challenging methodological manifesto to
comply with, and one that might raise eyebrows among world systems analysts
for example. The distinction between the material and cultural, or structure
and agency, emerges as being as salient in anthropology as in sociology, as
does the need to bear in mind that actors do not necessarily or very often
see the bigger picture, or become aware of the multiple process that set
down parameters to their choices. Yet on the evidence of this collection,
the author has managed, just about, to maintain a balance between the two
dimensions referred to. The tools utilized range from engaging with the
personal narratives of contemporary migrant women, in "Migration Stories",
through historical archive work on a Northern Portuguese village, in
"Emigration and Household Structure in a Northern Portuguese Parish,
1850-1920", to an analysis of the Portuguese ideology of return migration in
"Emigrar para Voltar", and a consummate blending of research instruments in
"Women are Migrants Too".

The specificity of the Portuguese case is forcefully argued from the outset.
"The emigrant", she maintains, is a "core symbol" (p.16), in Portuguese
culture, metamorphosing from the _navegador_ to the _emigrante_ via the
_colono_ to reflect the changing phases in the country's history. Moving on
to the topic of return migration, Brettell highlights the functional uses of
migration. The Portuguese migrants she interviews, "view the host society as
a detoured route to social mobility and social prestige within their own
society" (p.72).

While later essays introduce more (and sometimes gendered) ambivalence about
return, the theme that strikes me as a reader more familiar with work on
Irish and Caribbean emigration is the implied high actual level of return
and implementation of the planned return, presumably (going by the date)
even before Portugal's economy recovered to the point where it became a net
importer of labor.

Although women migrants are now receiving much more attention than they did
in the 70s and 80s, Brettell's work from this period assumes a pioneering
character. She conceptualizes women as individual workers with their own
agendas, rather than docile, one-dimensional appendages to male labor
migrants. Arguing this case in contemporary migration studies might seem
redundant, yet writers such as Eleanore Kofman, Jacqueline Andall and Annie
Phizacklea [1] for example, have all recently urged their colleagues to do
what Brettell was already doing in the 80s. She provides nuanced studies
elucidating some of the criteria required to answer the question of whether
life as a migrant is better or worse for women than in the country of
origin. Portuguese women, she maintains, have a long experience of
separation and shared decision-making, which may contrast with the
experiences of other groups and reduce the gap in autonomy (if not in
material gain) between their lives in Portugal and in their host societies.

The author's emphasis in the collection is on anthropology's unique set of
criteria for studying migration, but she might be pleasantly surprised to
see how much some methodologies within sociology, to just cite my own
discipline, overlap with hers. Reading Brettell alongside Breda Gray's
recent work on Irish women in the UK [2] is a rewarding exercise, not only
because of the clear parallels between Portugal and Ireland as mass
exporters of people, but also in the way women's voices can be dealt with so
adeptly and placed at the center of an intellectual endeavor in which the
tensions between structure and agency become so immediate.

Last but not least, Portugal, as Brettell points out, is now a country of
net immigration. The countries of new migration in Europe; Portugal, Spain,
Ireland, Italy and Greece, are on the agenda for research as places in
transition between two ways of life, the country of emigrants and the
country of immigrants, each with their own sets of problems to solve. Add to
this the fact that they are all experiencing continued emigration at the
same time as both return migration and new immigration, and Brettell's work
becomes even more interesting in its provision of insights into the process
of return migration in the European context, an area that has produced
ludicrously little published work so far.

While this is a fine book overall, I have one principal criticism. This is
to do with an overarching view. Maybe it is partly a sociologist's unhealthy
taste for theories, but I feel there was an opportunity here to do something
extra in the conclusion. The introduction is concise and well-focused, yet
the separation of the three levels of analysis contained in it raises
questions about the relationships between them. While to some extent this
emerges implicitly from particular essays, the collection could really have
benefited from a more heavyweight attempt to draw this out and tie up the
loose ends. The outlining of a multi-dimensional methodological mission
statement in the introduction could have been satisfyingly responded to by a
'with-the-benefit-of-hindsight' concluding essay. However, the excellent and
engaging fieldwork is not supported by a concluding essay of corresponding
breadth, scope or quality. This is particularly disappointing given the
topicality of 'transnationalism' as a research paradigm that has recently
thrown up a large-scale project funded by the Economic and Social Research
Council in the UK. Some of its findings are summarized by that program's
Director, Steven Vertovec and others in a special edition of the Journal of
Ethnic and Migration Studies [3]. There is plenty over the 27 years since
the author's first publication to have got her teeth into, and it makes me
wonder whether she is planning the review that suggests itself from the
back-to-back reading of these articles. If she does get round to that
project, it might be a seminal piece.


Notes

[1]. Kofman, E. [2004] "Family-related migration: a critical review of
European Studies" _Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies_ 30 [2]:243-262
; Andall, J. "Introduction" in Andall [ed.], _Ethnicity and Gender in
Contemporary Europe_ Oxford: Berg, 2003 ; Phizacklea, A. "Gendered Actors in
Migration", in Andall, op.cit., pp. 23-37.

[2]. Gray, B. [2004] _Women and Migration_ London: Palgrave

[3]. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 27 [4] 2001. Special Edition:
"Transnationalism and Identity". Vertovec's review article is
"Transnationalism and Identity", pp.573-82 of that issue.