Integration in Ireland

The Everyday Lives of African Migrants

Mark Maguire author Fiona Murphy author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Manchester University Press

Published:1st Jun '15

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

Integration in Ireland cover

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, now available in paperback, 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.

The book is well written and provides a comprehensive window into the situations facing African migrants in Ireland in their quest to belong., Cati Coe, Rutgers University, Book reviews 245 Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (N.S.) 21, 211-258, 3 February 2015 -- .

ISBN: 9780719097423

Dimensions: 234mm x 156mm x 9mm

Weight: 249g

172 pages