Young people, intergenerationality and the familial reproduction of transnational migrations and immobilities
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2023-03-17
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Ní Laoire, Caitríona
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Edward Elgar Publishing
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This chapter explores the role of intergenerationality in migration, highlighting the ways in which migrations and im/mobilities unfold and reverberate over generations within families. It presents a discussion of existing literature together with findings from qualitative research (including a longitudinal component) with multigenerational transnational Irish families, in order to develop a conceptualisation of transgenerational reproduction of migration and im/mobilities. In particular, it explores the potential for transnationalism, diaspora and mobilities perspectives to shed light on these dynamics. The chapter focuses on how young people from migrant backgrounds engage with their familial migration histories and legacies as they forge their own life-paths. It argues that migrant family background shapes the structural possibilities and im/mobility dispositions of young people who grow up in migrant/transnational families, through intergenerational relations and transmission of capital.
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Intergenerational , Migration , Transgenerational reproduction of migration , Young people , Family
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Ní Laoire, C. (2023) 'Young people, intergenerationality and the familial reproduction of transnational migrations and immobilities', in Waters, J. and Yeoh, B. (eds.) Handbook on Migration and the Family. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 118–134. doi: 10.4337/9781789908732.00014
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© 2023, Johanna L. Waters and Brenda S. A. Yeoh. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical or photocopying, recording, or otherwise without the prior permission of the publisher.