Children of the diaspora: coming home to 'my own country'?

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2011
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Ní Laoire, Caitríona
Carpena-Méndez, Fina
Tyrrell, Naomi
White, Allen
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Routledge
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This chapter focuses on an invisible child migrant population, that is, children who migrated to Ireland with Irish return migrant parents. It explores the complex nature of these children's negotiations of identity and belonging, problematising notions of unproblematic belonging for children of return migrants, and thus problematising ethno-national definitions of belonging.
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Migration , Return migration , Children , Young people , Home , Belonging , Identity
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Ni Laoire, C., Carpena-Mendez, F., Tyrrell, N. and White, A. (2011) 'Children of the diaspora: coming home to 'my own country'?' in Childhood and Migration in Europe: portraits of mobility, identity and belonging in contemporary Europe, London: Routledge. isbn:978-1-4094-0109-4
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© Caitríona Ní Laoire, Fina Carpena-Méndez, Naomi Tyrrell and Allen White 2011. Caitríona Ní Laoire, Fina Carpena-Méndez, Naomi Tyrrell and Allen White have asserted their right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the authors of this work. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.