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‘I Had a Sister in England’: Family-Led Migration, Social Networks and Irish Nurses

Dr Louise RyanCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 453-470 | Published online: 08 Feb 2008

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Marc Scully. (2020) Irish soccer migrants: a social and cultural history. Irish Studies Review 28:1, pages 132-135.
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CARLA DE TONA & RONIT LENTIN. (2011) Networking sisterhood, from the informal to the global: AkiDwA, the African and Migrant Women's Network, Ireland. Global Networks 11:2, pages 242-261.
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Louise Ryan. (2011) Transnational Relations: Family Migration among Recent Polish Migrants in London. International Migration 49:2, pages 80-103.
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