TY - BOOK ID - 118344877 TI - Irish migrants in New Zealand, 1840-1937 : 'the desired haven' PY - 2005 SN - 1282080806 9786612080807 1846154049 1843831430 PB - Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, NY : Boydell Press, DB - UniCat KW - Irish KW - Immigrants KW - History KW - Ireland KW - New Zealand KW - Emigration and immigration KW - Ethnic relations. KW - Emigrants KW - Foreign-born population KW - Foreign population KW - Foreigners KW - Migrants KW - Persons KW - Irishmen (Irish people) KW - Ethnology KW - Aotearoa KW - N.Z. (New Zealand) KW - Nea Zēlandia KW - Neu-Seeland KW - Neuseeland KW - Nieu-Seeland KW - Niu-hsi-lan KW - Nouvelle-Zélande KW - Nov-Zelando KW - Nova Zelanda KW - Nova Zelandii︠a︡ KW - Novai︠a︡ Zelandii︠a︡ KW - Novai︠a︡ Zelandyi︠a︡ KW - Novi Zeland KW - Nový Zéland KW - Novzelando KW - Nowa Zelandia KW - Nu Ziland KW - Nueva Zelanda KW - Nueva Zelandia KW - Nuova Zelanda KW - Nya Zeeland KW - Nýja-Sjáland KW - Nýsæland KW - Nyū Jīrando KW - Nyu Ziland KW - Nyūjīrando KW - NZ KW - Seland Newydd KW - Uus-Meremaa KW - Zeelanda Berria KW - Νέα Ζηλανδία KW - Нова Зеландия KW - Новая Зеландыя KW - ניו זילנד KW - ニュージーランド KW - Irish Free State KW - 19th-20th Century. KW - Irish Migrants. KW - Migration History. KW - New Zealand. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:118344877 AB - An innovative and original contribution to the history of European migration between the mid-nineteenth century and the interwar years. I have at last reached the desired haven', exclaimed Belfast-born Bessie Macready in 1878, the year of her arrival at Lyttelton, when writing home to cousins in County Down. There was a huge amount of worldwide European migrationbetween the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, a phenomenon which this book examines. Making close use of personal correspondence exchanged between Ireland and New Zealand, the author addresses a number of central questions in migration history, including the circumstances of departure; why some connections chose to stay; how migrant letter writers depicted their voyage out, the environment, work, family and neighbours, politics, and faith; and the prevalence of return and repeat migration. Throughout, the book gives significant attention to the social networks constraining and enabling migrants. It also considers broader debates in the history of European migration, relating to the use of personal testimony to chart the experiences of emigrants and the uncertain processes of adaptation, incorporation, and adjustment that migrants underwent in new and sometimes unfamiliar environments. ER -