Childhood and Migration in Europe: Portraits of Mobility, Identity and Belonging in Contemporary Ireland

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Childhood and Migration in Europe explores the under-researched and often misunderstood worlds of migrant children and young people, drawing on extensive empirical research with children and young people from diverse migrant backgrounds living in a rapidly changing European society. Through in-depth exploration and analysis of the experiences of children who moved to Ireland in the first decade of the 21st … Read More

Author(s):Caitríona Ní Laoire, Fina Carpena-Méndez, Naomi Tyrrell and Allen White.
Publisher:Ashgate
Publication Date:01 Dec 2012
Geographic Focus:Europe, Ireland
URL:http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409401094
ISBN:9781409401094
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Nigerian Migration to Ireland: Movements, Motivations and Experiences

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This article focuses on the different Nigerian groups that have migrated to Ireland from the 1980s. Data from a series of interviews in Ireland and Nigeria are employed to identify distinct groups of Nigerian migrants to Ireland and their specific migration patterns. The article identifies two broad categories of Nigerian migrants to Ireland: those who have moved from other European … Read More

Author(s):Julius Komolafe
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Online
Publication Date:06 Jun 2008
Geographic Focus:Ireland
URL:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00750770802077016
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Dublin: An Emerging Gateway?

Immigration today touches the lives and economies of more people and places than ever before. Yet the places that are disproportionately affected by immigrant flows are not countries but cities. This remarkable collection examines contemporary global immigration trends and their profound effect on specific host cities. The book focuses not only on cities with long-established diverse populations, such as New … Read More

Author(s):Mary Gilmartin
Publisher:Syracuse University Press
Publication Date:01 Jan 2008
Geographic Focus:Europe, World
URL:http://www.syracuseuniversitypress.syr.edu/spring-2008/migrants-to-the-metropolis-rise-immigrant.html
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