Ireland's Furthest Shores: Irish Immigrant Settlement in Nineteenth-Century California and Eastern Australia
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...segmented labor markets, segregated schooling systems, and delineation from their counterparts of European Protestant descent (Campbell 2002)....
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...There is also evidence that western US states attracted families from higher-status backgrounds in Ireland, who may have been better equipped for upward mobility (Campbell 2002)....
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...Historians have Connor 27 highlighted that in western US states, where schooling outcomes were stronger, the Irish were more likely to be perceived as Europeans and “insiders” than in the Northeast (Burchell 1979; Campbell 2002)....
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...Confirming prior arguments by historians (e.g., Thernstrom 1973; Casey 1996; Meagher 2001), I show that upward mobility was curtailed in the traditional Irish communities of the Northeast....
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...In many northeastern cities, the Irish faced ethnically and racially 8 International Migration Review 54(1) segmented labor markets, segregated schooling systems, and delineation from their counterparts of European Protestant descent (Campbell 2002)....
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