http://hdl.handle.net/10468/817 Tue, 21 May 2013 19:49:14 GMT 2013-05-21T19:49:14Z http://hdl.handle.net/10468/816 Addressing the concept and evidence of institutional racism in Irish education Kitching, Karl; Curtin, Alicia Kitching, Karl; Curtin, Alicia This proceedings document tells a critical story of the event. Using a social and cultural perspective on racism, power and education, it provides a set of questions for ongoing public, policy-maker and research debate. The publication and dissemination of this document was planned as part of the ‘New Ideas’ proposal. Its intended audience includes education and social policy-makers, and education and community practitioners, including anti-racism activists. Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10468/816 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10468/939 'Settling back'? A biographical and life-course perspective on Ireland's recent return migration Ní Laoire, Caitríona This paper uses a biographical and life-course perspective to explore some of the key narratives of return among return migrants to Ireland, focusing in particular on the themes of family, child-rearing, relationship breakdown and ‘settling down’. The ways in which return migrants use the concept of life-course transitions in order to make sense of and narrate their migration stories is explored. I argue that their narratives reflect a normative association of life stage with place, and that return migration reflects the ways in which key events in the individual life course transitions and family life cycles of 1980s emigrants have intersected with processes of economic and social transformation in Ireland. This occurs within the context of heteronormative and kinship-based ideals of Irish culture and of powerful myths of return. The data used in the paper is taken from the Narratives of Migration and Return research project, a north south cross-border project which assembled an oral archive of 92 return migrant life narratives. In the paper, I draw on 33 of the interviews conducted in the south, which focused on the cohort of return migrants who had emigrated in the 1980s. Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10468/939 2008-07-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10468/866 The 'green green grass of home'? Return migration to rural Ireland Ní Laoire, Caitríona There have been calls recently to challenge some of the orthodoxies of counterurbanisation. This paper contributes to this by highlighting the complexity of rural in-migration processes, through a focus on rural return migration. There has been a significant increase in return migration to the Republic of Ireland (ROI) since 1996. The paper is based on the life narratives of some of the 1980s generation of emigrants who have recently returned to live in Ireland. It focuses on those Irish return migrants who spent a substantial part of their lives in the large urban centres of Britain and the US, and are currently living in rural Ireland. Their narratives of return are explored in terms of discourses of rurality, in particular through notions of a rural idyll and belonging/not belonging. It is argued that return migrants draw on classic counterurbanisation discourses in their narratives of return, but that these are interwoven with notions of family/kinship. Furthermore, the idyllisation of rural life is complicated by aspects of the specificity of the position of the return migrant. It is suggested that rural return migrants are positioned somewhere between locals and incomers, reflecting the complexity of Irish rural repopulation processes, and that the phenomenon of rural return complicates accepted understandings of counterurbanisation. Sun, 01 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10468/866 2007-07-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10468/898 To name or not to name: reflections on the use of anonymity in an oral archive of migrant life narratives Ní Laoire, Caitríona This paper draws on an oral archive project on narratives of return migration in contemporary Ireland, as the basis for a discussion on the potential of life narrative research to destabilize meta-narratives and to contribute to the mapping of transformative geographies. It is argued that this kind of research requires the creation of safe spaces within which participants can tell their stories and articulate counter-narratives. At the same time, it is important to make their voices available to a wide audience and to recognize their authorial roles. There are contrasting perspectives in oral history and life narrative research on the use of anonymity to protect participants' identities, which reflect different disciplinary traditions and practices. The paper reflects on these different perspectives and on the process of designing a research project that draws on multiple methodological influences. It concludes that it is possible to facilitate access to these voices, while at the same time providing safe conditions for the articulation of counter-narratives, by providing anonymity where possible and desirable in agreement with the participant. Mon, 01 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10468/898 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z