This paper examines the migratory experiences of a sub-group of Irish emigrants, namely, the transnational professional elite. It explores a number of themes that emerged from interviews with a sample of returners, who travelled to live and work in Britain and North America in the 1980s and returned to Ireland in the 1990s. It will argue that the migratory process as experienced by these returners is framed within a discourse of modernity that is both contradictory and ambivalent. Those contradictions and ambivalences will be explored though an analysis of the returners' self-identity as it is expressed in relation to work, ethnicity and homecoming. The paper concludes that their insider/outsider status in both the host society and the soci...
We bring into dialogue the migrant identities of young Irish immigrants in the UK and young returnee...
This paper uses oral history to consider the relative merits of symbolic interactionism in revealing...
This article addresses the applicability of Gloria Anzaldúa’s new mestiza consciousness in contempor...
This paper examines the migratory experiences of a sub-group of Irish emigrants, namely, the transna...
In this paper I examine the migratory experiences of a sub-group of Irish emigrants, namely, the tra...
IRISH migration at the end of the twentieth century encompasses complex and multidimensional process...
Irish migration at the end of the twentieth century encompasses complex and multidimensional proces...
This article presents a sociological analysis of current Irish identity using two strands of globali...
A new research agenda is needed for the study of Irish "middle class" emigrants. Globalisation and i...
Through the prism of current state discourses in Ireland on engagement with the Irish diaspora, this...
While migration has become emblematic of an era of accelerated globalization in Ireland, public and ...
There is a long history of migration from Britain to Ireland, but it is rarely theorised as migrati...
This article will examine the interaction between New Irish immigrants and Irish-American ethnics du...
Though immigration has become one of the key issues facing Irish society, geographers in Ireland ha...
International audienceOver the last two decades, many European States have altered their immigration...
We bring into dialogue the migrant identities of young Irish immigrants in the UK and young returnee...
This paper uses oral history to consider the relative merits of symbolic interactionism in revealing...
This article addresses the applicability of Gloria Anzaldúa’s new mestiza consciousness in contempor...
This paper examines the migratory experiences of a sub-group of Irish emigrants, namely, the transna...
In this paper I examine the migratory experiences of a sub-group of Irish emigrants, namely, the tra...
IRISH migration at the end of the twentieth century encompasses complex and multidimensional process...
Irish migration at the end of the twentieth century encompasses complex and multidimensional proces...
This article presents a sociological analysis of current Irish identity using two strands of globali...
A new research agenda is needed for the study of Irish "middle class" emigrants. Globalisation and i...
Through the prism of current state discourses in Ireland on engagement with the Irish diaspora, this...
While migration has become emblematic of an era of accelerated globalization in Ireland, public and ...
There is a long history of migration from Britain to Ireland, but it is rarely theorised as migrati...
This article will examine the interaction between New Irish immigrants and Irish-American ethnics du...
Though immigration has become one of the key issues facing Irish society, geographers in Ireland ha...
International audienceOver the last two decades, many European States have altered their immigration...
We bring into dialogue the migrant identities of young Irish immigrants in the UK and young returnee...
This paper uses oral history to consider the relative merits of symbolic interactionism in revealing...
This article addresses the applicability of Gloria Anzaldúa’s new mestiza consciousness in contempor...