Integration in Ireland : the everyday lives of African migrants / Mark Maguire and Fiona Murphy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Maguire, Mark., author.

Murphy, Fiona (Business researcher), author.

Series:

New ethnographies.

New ethnographies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Africans--Ireland--Social conditions.

Africans.

Immigrants--Ireland--Social conditions.

Immigrants.

Ireland--Ethnic relations.

Ireland.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (159 pages) : illustrations; digital files(s).

Place of Publication:

Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press, 2012.

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, [2015]

System Details:

data file

Summary:

"The integration of new immigrants is one of the most important issues in Europe, yet not enough is known about the lives of migrants. This book draws on several years of ethnographic research with African migrants in Ireland, many of whom are former asylum seekers. Against the widespread assumptions that integration has been handled well in Ireland and that racism is not a major problem, this book shows that migrants are themselves shaping integration in their everyday lives in the face of enormous challenges. The book will appeal to scholars and students interested in migration and ethnicity and to a general reading public interested in the stories of integration in Ireland. The book is situated within current anthropological theory and makes an important contribution, both theoretically and empirically, to understandings of the everyday and a site of possibility and critique."--Publisher's website.

Contents:

Taxis, deregulation and racism in Irish border towns

Inside the politics machine

Enchanting Ireland

Hallelujah Halloween

Miss Nigeria, and emergent forms of life

Conclusion.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 144-155) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781784992019

1784992011

9781784992002

1784992003

OCLC:

936294167