CHILDHOOD AND MIGRATION IN EUROPE
Studies in Migration and Diaspora
Series Editor:
Anne J. Kershen, Queen Mary College, University of London, UK
Studies in Migration and Diaspora is a series designed to showcase the interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary nature of research in this important field. Volumes in the series cover local, national and global issues and engage with both historical and contemporary events. The books will appeal to scholars, students and all those engaged in the study of migration and diaspora. Amongst the topics covered are minority ethnic relations, transnational movements and the cultural, social and political implications of moving from over there, to over here.
Also in the series:
Expatriate Identities in Postcolonial Organizations
Working Whiteness
Pauline Leonard
ISBN 978-0-7546-7365-1
Multifaceted Identity of Interethnic Young People
Chameleon Identities
Sultana Choudhry
ISBN 978-0-7546-7860-1
The Invisible Empire
White Discourse, Tolerance and Belonging
Georgie Wemyss
ISBN 978-0-7546-7347-7
Lifestyle Migration
Expectations, Aspirations and Experiences
Edited by Michaela Benson and Karen OReilly
ISBN 978-0-7546-7567-9
International Migration and Rural Areas
Cross-National Comparative Perspectives
Edited by Birgit Jentsch and Myriam Simard
ISBN 978-0-7546-7484-9
Childhood and Migration in Europe
Portraits of Mobility, Identity and Belonging in Contemporary Ireland
CAITRONA N LAOIRE
University College Cork, Ireland
FINA CARPENA-MNDEZ
Oregon State University, USA
NAOMI TYRRELL
University of Plymouth, UK
and
ALLEN WHITE
University College Cork, Ireland
First published 2011 by Ashgate Publishing
Published 2016 by Routledge
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Childhood and migration in Europe : portraits of mobility, identity and belonging in contemporary Ireland.(Studies in migration and diaspora) 1. Immigrant childrenIrelandHistory21st century. 2. AfricansIrelandSocial conditions21st century. 3. East EuropeansIrelandSocial conditions21st century. 4. Latin AmericansIrelandSocial conditions 21st century. 5. Return migrationIrelandHistory21st century. 6. EthnicityIrelandCase studies.
I. Series II. Ni Laoire, Caitriona.
305.2308691209415-dc22
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Childhood and migration in Europe : portraits of mobility, identity and belonging in contemporary Ireland / by Caitriona Ni Laoire [et al.].
p. cm. (Studies in migration and diaspora)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4094-0109-4 (hardback : alk. paper) ISBN 978-1-3155-7148-5 (ebook) 1. Immigrant childrenIreland. 2. AssimilationIreland. 3. Identity (Psychology) Ireland. 4. Emigration and immigrationSocial aspectsIreland. I. Laoire, Caitriona Ni.
HQ792.I73C45 2010
305.230869120417dc22
2010034779
ISBN 9781409401094 (hbk)
ISBN 9781315571485 (ebk)
ISBN 9781317167884 (ebk-ePUB)
Contents
List of Figures
Notes on Authors
Caitrona N Laoire is based at the Institute for Social Sciences in the 21st Century at University College Cork, Ireland. She was Team Leader of the Marie Curie Migrant Children project and conducted the research with children in returning Irish families. Her research interests lie in the areas of migration and childhood/youth, return migration, identities and belongings, migrant life narratives, rurality and gendered identities. She has published in these areas in journals such as Journal of Rural Studies, Translocations and Social and Cultural Geography.
Fina Carpena-Mendez is assistant professor of anthropology at Oregon State University. She received her PhD in anthropology from the University of California at Berkeley. She conducted research on the effects of neoliberal globalization processes on the Mexican countryside, on Nahua youth taking the lead in new migration processes to the US, and the children left behind in new migrant sending communities. Before her postdoctoral research as a Marie Curie Fellow at University College Cork on Latin American migrant children in Ireland she was a researcher at the Center for US-Mexican Studies and the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at the University of California, San Diego.
Naomi Tyrrell (ne Bushin) is a Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Plymouth, UK. Broadly, her research interests are focused on aspects of population geography and childrens geographies. She was responsible for Strand B of the Migrant Children Project, researching with children who had migrated to Ireland from Central and Eastern Europe. Her current research project examines the impacts of scientific mobility on the children of mobile scientists across the European Research Area. She has published in several refereed journals including Area, Population, Space and Place and Childrens Geographies.
Allen White is based in the Department of Geography, University College Cork. His research interests lie in the intersections between migration studies, childhood studies, citizenship, asylum and identities. He was responsible for Strand A of the Migrant Children Project, researching with children from African societies. Currently he is researching transnational child-raising practices between Africa and Europe. He has published in refereed journals including Political Geography, Geoforum, Population Space and Place, Womens Studies International Forum and Area.
Series Editors Preface
In recent years there has been a burgeoning of published works on migration. In the late 1970s, post colonial immigration galvanised academics into exploring the impact on the receiving society of those who had previously been subjects of metropolitan domination. Others deconstructed the experiences of those who had made the journey from periphery to core in search of economic advancement. In the following decades, political tensions and pressures in the Middle East and Southern Africa produced a new wave of migrants and with them, the geographical and theoretical expansion of academic interests. The accession of the A8 countries to the EU in 2004 and then Romania and Bulgaria in 2007 brought the focus back to Europe. However, in spite of the vacillating globalisation and localisation of migration studies, as the authors of this book so rightly claim, the worlds of migrant children and young people have been, under-researched and often misunderstood. This volume seeks to (re)evaluate the experience and behavioural patterns of migrant children in order to highlight their agency as well as their vulnerability and to record their interpretations and experiences of transnationalism in order to expand upon the more frequently studied regions of integration and/or marginalisation.