A Tolerant Nation?

Description

The population of Wales is the product of successive waves of immigration. During the industrial revolution many diverse groups were attracted into Wales by the economic opportunities it offered – notably Irish people, black and minority ethnic sailors from many parts of the world, and people from continental Europe. More recently, there has been immigration from the New Commonwealth as well as refugees from wars and oppression in several parts of the world. This volume engages with this experience by offering perspectives from historians, sociologists, cultural analysts and social policy experts. It provides analyses of the changing patterns of immigration and their reception including hostile and violent acts. It also considers the way in which Welsh attitudes to minorities have been shaped in the past through the activity of missionaries in the British Empire, and how these have permeated literary perceptions of Wales.

In the contemporary world, this diverse population has implications for social policy which are explored in a number of contexts, including in rural Wales. The achievements of minorities in sport and in building a multi-racial community in Butetown, for instance, which is now writing its own history, are recognised. The first edition of this book was widely welcomed as the essential work on the topic; over a decade later much has changed and the volume responds with several new chapters and extensive revisions that engage the impact of devolution on policy in Wales.

Foreword
Vaughan Gethin
List of Contributors
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Race, Nation and Globalization in a devolved Wales
Neil Evans, Paul O’Leary and Charlotte Williams
1.Immigrants and Minorities in Wales, 1840–1990: A Comparative Perspective
Neil Evans
2.Slaughter and Salvation: Welsh Missionary Activity and British Imperialism
Jane Aaron
3.The Other Internationalism? Missionary Activity and Welsh Nonconformist Perceptions of the World in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Aled Jones
4.Apes and Cannibals in Cambria: Literary Representations of the Racial and Gendered Other
Kirsti Bohata
5.Wales and Africa : William Hughes and the Congo Institute
Neil Evans and Ivor Wynne Jones
6.Through the Prism of Ethnic Violence: Riots and Racial Attacks in Wales, 1826–2014
Neil Evans
7.Playing the Game: Sport and Ethnic Minorities in Modern Wales
Neil Evans and Paul O’Leary
8.Changing the Archive: History and Memory as Cultural Politics in Multi-ethnic Wales
Glenn Jordan and Chris Weedon
9.Religious Diversity in Wales
Paul Chambers
10.Extending the parameters of social policy research for a multicultural Wales
Roiyah Saltus and Charlotte Williams
11.Experiencing Rural Wales
Charlotte Williams
12.‘This is the place we are calling home’: Changes in Sanctuary Seeking in Wales
Alida Payson
13.Getting Involved: Public Policy making and Political Life in Wales
Paul Chaney
14.Claiming the National: Nation, National Identity and Ethnic Minorities
Charlotte Williams

Sujets

• Histoire
• Great Britain
• History
• Wales
• Europe

Informations

• Publié par: University of Wales Press
• Date de parution: 15 mars 2015
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781783161904
• Langue: English

Extrait

A Tolerant Nation?
A Tolerant Nation?
Revisiting Ethnic Diversity in a Devolved Wales
Edited by
Charlotte Williams, Neil Evans and Paul O Leary
The Contributors, 2015
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CONTENTS
Foreword
Vaughan Gething
List of Contributors
List of Illustrations
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Race, Nation and Globalization in a Devolved Wales
Neil Evans, Paul O Leary and Charlotte Williams
1. Immigrants and Minorities in Wales, 1840-1990: A Comparative Perspective
Neil Evans
2. Slaughter and Salvation: Welsh Missionary Activity and British Imperialism
Jane Aaron
3. The Other Internationalism? Missionary Activity and Welsh Nonconformist Perceptions of the World in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Aled Jones
4. Apes and Cannibals in Cambria: Literary Representations of the Racial and Gendered Other
Kirsti Bohata
5. Wales and Africa: William Hughes and the Congo Institute
Neil Evans and Ivor Wynne Jones
6. Through the Prism of Ethnic Violence: Riots and Racial Attacks in Wales, 1826-2014
Neil Evans
7. Playing the Game: Sport and Ethnic Minorities in Modern Wales
Neil Evans and Paul O Leary
8. Changing the Archive: History and Memory as Cultural Politics in Multi-Ethnic Wales
Glenn Jordan and Chris Weedon
9. Religious Diversity in Wales
Paul Chambers
10. Extending the Parameters of Social Policy Research for a Multicultural Wales
Roiyah Saltus and Charlotte Williams
11. Experiencing Rural Wales
Charlotte Williams
12. This is the place we are calling home : Changes in Sanctuary Seeking in Wales
Alida Payson
13. Getting Involved: Public Policy Making and Political Life in Wales
Paul Chaney
14. Claiming the National: Nation, National Identity and Ethnic Minorities
Charlotte Williams
Foreword
I am very pleased to be able to write a foreword to the updated version of this pioneering book of essays. When the first edition was published over a decade ago it was the first publication of its kind to document and debate in a sustained way the contribution of black and ethnic minority groups to the history, culture and modern society of Wales. It was the first overview of around 200 years of ethnic diversity in the country and it demonstrated the significance of that diversity for modern society. At the time of its publication devolution was still in its infancy. Since then the devolution settlement in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland has been embedded and the distinctiveness of each society has become more obvious, as well as what they share with a wider world.
As the contributions to this book show, Wales is becoming an even more diverse society than it has been in the past. That pattern of diversity is subtly different to the picture to be found elsewhere in the UK and this book provides informed guidance on the nature of those differences, both past and present. Understanding the roots and nature of our diversity as a society and the extent to which some groups are disadvantaged or experience inequalities is an urgent task. At the same time, the book locates developments in this small country in a broader international context. The impact of globalization is to be found here as in other countries, with all the complexities that involves.
In this context, there is a powerful argument for up-to-date research on ethnic diversity in the devolved nations. This fully updated and augmented edition of A Tolerant Nation? provides new data and fresh analyses to help inform policy makers and the wider public in Wales and beyond. I welcome this book because systematic research is essential for an understanding of contemporary developments. We need informed and challenging debate rather than comforting platitudes if we are to meet the challenges that face us.
Vaughan Gething AM
Cardiff South and Penarth,
National Assembly for Wales
Contributors
Professor Jane Aaron teaches Welsh writing in English at the University of South Wales. Her publications include the monographs Pur fel y Dur: Y Gymraes yn Ll n Menywod y Bedwaredd Ganrif ar Bymtheg (1998), which won the Ellis Griffith prize in 1999, Nineteenth-Century Women s Writing in Wales (2007), which won the Roland Mathias Award in 2009, and Welsh Gothic (2013). With others, she co-edited the essay collections Our Sisters Land: The Changing Identities of Women in Wales (1994), Postcolonial Wales (2005) and Gendering Border Studies (2010). She is also co-editor of the series Gender Studies in Wales and Writers of Wales, both published by the University of Wales Press, and editor of Honno Press s reprint series, Welsh Women s Classics, for which she has edited five volumes, the latest of which is Allen Raine s A Welsh Witch (2013).
Kirsti Bohata is Associate Professor of English and Director of CREW, the Centre for Research into the English Literature and Language of Wales, at Swansea University. She is the author of Postcolonialism Revisited: Writing Wales in English (2004) and her most recent publication is Rediscovering Margiad Evans: Gender, Marginality, Illness (2013), co-edited with Katie Gramich.
Paul Chambers is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of South Wales. He is the author of Religion, Secularization and Social Change in Wales and numerous articles on aspects of religion, both in Wales and Europe. His current research interests include desecularization, migration and faith-based social action.
Paul Chaney is Reader in Public Policy at Cardiff University School of Social Sciences. His books include Women, Politics and Constitutional Change (2007; co-authored), Equality and Public Policy (2011) and Public Policy-Making and the Devolved State (forthcoming). He is co-editor of Contemporary Wales: An Annual Review of Economic, Political and Social Research.
Neil Evans is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, an Honorary Research Fellow in History at Cardiff University and vice-chair of Llafur: The Welsh People s History Society. He has published work on many aspects of Welsh and British history, including urban history, protest movements, on ethnic minorities and most recently on the British Empire and its impact on Wales. He is working with Paul O Leary on a study of processions and urban culture in south Wales c. 1870-1914 and has just edited a book (with Huw Pryce): Writing a Small Nation s Past: Wales in Comparative Perspective, 1850-1950 (2013).
Dr Aled Jones is Chief Executive and Librarian at the National Library of Wales at Aberystwyth. Until 2013 he was the Sir John Williams Professor of Welsh History and Senior Pro-Vice Chancellor at Aberystwyth University. He is the author of Powers of the Press: Newspapers, Power and the Public in Nineteenth-Century England (1996), Press, Politics and Society: A History of Journalism in Wales (1993) and co-author of Welsh Reflections: Y Drych and America, 1851- 2001 (2001). He is associate editor of the Dictionary of Nineteenth Century Journalism (2009) and a contributor to Banglapedia: The National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh (2003). His research encompasses the history of journalism, the writings of Welsh missionaries and travellers in the British Empire and the connections between British and North American journalism.
Ivor Wynne Jones (deceased) was a local historian and international authority on the Congo Institute and its founder. He authored numerous books, including the pioneering Shipwrecks of North Wales (1973, 1978, 1986); Llandudno, Queen of the Welsh Resorts (1976); Colwyn Bay, A Brief History (1995); Gold Frankenstein and Manure (1997); Money for All (1969); and many smaller but seminal booklets. Ivor Wynne Jones was a member of the Welsh Academy/ Yr Academi Gymreig.
Professor Paul O Leary teaches History at Aberystwyth University, where he is Director of Welsh Language and Culture in the Institute of Geography, History and Politics. He is co-editor of the Welsh History Review and has written widely on Irish migration and urban history. He is author of Claiming the Streets: Processions and Urban Culture in South Wales, c.1830-1880 (2012), which was shortlisted for the Katherine Briggs Award for 2013; Immigration and Integration: The Irish in Wales, 1798-1922 (2000); and editor of Irish Migrants in Modern Wales (2004). The projects he is currently working on deal with the interactions between Wales and empire and technological transfer between Britain and the European Continent during the Industrial Revolution.
Alida Payson is a PhD candidate in the School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies at Cardiff University. Her research is about how migrant women in Cardiff engage in creative practices of belonging and cultural citizenship. Prior to her PhD, she worked with young people from Somalia, Sudan, Rwanda, Burundi and Cambodia as part of a community gardening and food justice project in the United States. Her research interests include gender and migration, refugee rights, foodways and food justice, and everyd