Complicating host-newcomer dualisms: Irish return migrants as home-comers or newcomers?

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dc.contributor.authorNí Laoire, Caitríona
dc.date.accessioned2018-02-20T16:16:52Z
dc.date.available2018-02-20T16:16:52Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.date.updated2018-02-19T14:30:11Z
dc.description.abstractPopular discourses of contemporary Irish society are often structured on the basis of dualisms which oppose a perceived native/Irish/host community to an imagined foreign/non-Irish/newcomer community. This paper uses the example of Irish return migration to challenge these pervasive dualisms and to highlight the blurred nature of boundaries between host and newcomer. The paper draws on life narrative interviews with recent return migrants to reveal the ways in which they constantly move between the shifting positions of ‘insider’ and ‘outsider’. Migrant narratives of home and return are conceptualised in terms of the ways in which home is inhabited and remembered differently with migration, and as a result is continuously being reprocessed. It is argued that neither home nor belonging are static constructs, and that return migrants constantly re-make and reproduce home and belonging. In this way, they ‘bring home’ to non-migrants the inherent instability of accepted concepts of place, identity and belonging, and in doing so, unsettle powerful imagined insider outsider dualisms.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
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dc.identifier.citationNi Laoire, C. (2008) 'Challenging host-newcomer dualisms: Irish return migrants as home-comers or newcomers?', Translocations: Migration and Social Change, 4(1), pp. 35-50.en
dc.identifier.endpage50en
dc.identifier.issn2009-0420
dc.identifier.issued1en
dc.identifier.journaltitleTranslocations: migration and social changeen
dc.identifier.startpage35en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/5527
dc.identifier.volume4en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherDublin City Universityen
dc.rights© 2008 Ní Laoire. Translocations: Migration and Social Change, An Inter-Disciplinary Open Access E-Journal, ISSN Number: 2009-0420en
dc.subjectReturnen
dc.subjectMigrationen
dc.subjectNarrativeen
dc.subjectHomeen
dc.subjectBelongingen
dc.subjectIrish migrationen
dc.titleComplicating host-newcomer dualisms: Irish return migrants as home-comers or newcomers?en
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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