Abstract:
This chapter considers the role of extended family and kinship in the experiences of children who move to Ireland as part of return migrant families. Evidence suggests that children who were born outside Ireland and moved there as children with Irish return migrant parents during the economic boom comprise a significant, though under-acknowledged, demographic group (Ní Laoire et al 2011). Positioned simultaneously as children in Irish families, and migrants to Ireland, they provide a unique perspective on family dynamics and structures of belonging in contemporary Irish society.
