Between 1921 and 1965 Irish and Scottish migrants continued to seek new homes abroad. Using the personal accounts of these migrants from letters, interviews, questionnaires, and shipboard journals, together with more traditional documentary sources such as immigration files and maritime records, this book examines the experience of migration and settlement in North America and Australasia. Through a close reading of personal testimonies the author highlights the assorted similarities and differences between the Irish and Scots. Subtle differences rather than yawning cultural gaps are...

A Global Clan explores the impact of Scottish migration on New World development. With a new approach linking personal accounts to ""networks"" of kin and social groups, this book taps into the expanding academic debate on migration linking imperial history and the European diaspora. Migration from the British ""Celtic fringe"" since the eighteenth century has had a significant impact on the politics, economics, demography, sociology, and culture of the New World, as a force shaping international politics and even war. The contributors use new material to explore Scottish migrant...