1. Objectifs

Intentions :
In this book, the author wants to «[…] sho[w] that emigration was a family affair.» (quatrième de couverture)

2. Méthode

Échantillon/Matériau :
The author uses « […] ‘information wanted’ notices that appeared in colonial newspapers as well as emigrants’ own accounts» (quatrième de couverture) And especially, «[...] stories of a few of those made up what newspapers at the time called the ‘tide’ that swept across the Atlantic in the years after the Napoleonic Wars.» (p. 9)

Type de traitement des données :
Analyse de contenu

3. Résumé

This book «[...] gives a voice to the Irish, Scottish, English, and Welsh women and men who negotiated the complex and often dangerous world of emigration between 1815 and 1845. […] Individuals made their decisions within a matrix of kin and community, their experiences shaped by their identities as husbands and wives, parents and children, sibling and cousins. The Atlantic crossing divided families, but it was also the means of reuniting kin and rebuilding old communities. Emigration created its own unique world, a world whose inhabitants remained well aware of the transatlantic community that provided them with a continuing sense of identity, home, and family.» (quatrième de couverture) Quebec is mentioned in this research because Quebec City was the emigrants’ arrival port.