'It's Different Now': A Narrative Analysis of Recent Irish Migrants Making Sense of Migration and Comparing Themselves with Previous Waves of Migrants. Issue 2 (November 2015)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- 'It's Different Now': A Narrative Analysis of Recent Irish Migrants Making Sense of Migration and Comparing Themselves with Previous Waves of Migrants. Issue 2 (November 2015)
- Main Title:
- 'It's Different Now': A Narrative Analysis of Recent Irish Migrants Making Sense of Migration and Comparing Themselves with Previous Waves of Migrants
- Authors:
- Ryan, Louise
- Abstract:
- The key aim of this paper is to consider how young professionals, who left Ireland since the economic recession, define their migration project – not just individually but also as a shared experience across their generation. Using narrative analysis and the concept of 'speech acts', I explore how these young people working in England talk about and make sense of recent Irish migration. In particular, the paper explores the extent to which the participants construct a sense of 'cohorts' to articulate their shared experiences and expectations as a 'group', 'wave' or 'generation' of recent migrants and, in so doing, contrast themselves with previous waves of migrants from Ireland. I highlight their emphasis on 'choice', 'opportunities' and 'mobility' in contrast to their image of the older Irish migrants as 'forced', disadvantaged and 'stuck'. I suggest that this is not just an over-simplification of the past, but more importantly represents a device for making sense of the present. The paper also adopts a reflexive approach and situates myself as a researcher and an Irish migrant in the research process. In this way, I consider how my questions and comments may have influenced how narratives were constructed and shared as well as how I may have approached the analysis of the data through a specific socio-temporal mind set.
- Is Part Of:
- Irish journal of sociology. Volume 23:Issue 2(2015)
- Journal:
- Irish journal of sociology
- Issue:
- Volume 23:Issue 2(2015)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 23, Issue 2 (2015)
- Year:
- 2015
- Volume:
- 23
- Issue:
- 2
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2015-0023-0002-0000
- Page Start:
- 114
- Page End:
- 132
- Publication Date:
- 2015-11
- Subjects:
- migration -- narrative analysis -- generation -- teachers -- Ireland
Sociology -- Ireland -- Periodicals
Ireland -- Social conditions -- Periodicals
Ireland -- Civilization -- Periodicals
301.09415 - Journal URLs:
- http://irj.sagepub.com/ ↗
http://manchester.metapress.com/content/122706 ↗
http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?db=slh&jn=H3R&scope=site ↗
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/manup/ijs ↗
http://www.uk.sagepub.com/home.nav ↗ - DOI:
- 10.7227/IJS.23.2.8 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0791-6035
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