The limitations of whiteness and the boundaries of Englishness: Second-generation Irish identifications and positionings in multiethnic Britain

Ethnicities

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 160-182

  Hickman, Mary J ^a   Morgan, Sarah ^b   Walter, Bronwen ^c   Bradley, Joseph ^d  

^a LONDON METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Office of the Deputy Prime Minister   (United Kingdom)

^c ANGLIA RUSKIN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Irishness; Minority ethnic group

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745746828     PISSN: 14687968     EISSN: 17412706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1468796805052113     Document Type: Article

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