Polish Families in Ireland : A Life Course Perspective

著者名：Share, Michelle (EDT)/Bobek, Alicja (EDT)

Palgrave Macmillan（2024/05/30発売）

• 言語：ENG
• ISBN：9783031546334
• eISBN：9783031546341

Description

This volume explores the family formation and life course of Polish people in Ireland, who make up the largest immigrant group in Ireland. Chapters address key dimensions of the life course in three parts focusing on childhood and youth, adulthood and parenting, and mid-life and futures. Contributions investigate the experiences of children and youth attending school and understanding their identities, the changing nature of families and family support, how families might engage with welfare institutions, and more. Through the life course approach, the book moves beyond the paradigm of studying the Polish population as economic migrants and instead analyzes and illustrates the lives of Polish families living in Ireland since EU enlargement.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Becoming in Ireland? An Autobiographical story of a ‘1.5 generation child.- Chapter 3: A Life course perspective on heritage and education: The role of Polish complementary schools in Ireland.- Chapter 4: Families are changing: Life course trajectories of 1.5 generation Polish teenagers in Ireland.- Chapter 5: “If you are moving forward then you are not going backwards”: Reconfiguration of family and migration - a longitudinal study of Polish migrants in Ireland.- Chapter 6: Moving through Ireland: Narratives of Polish multiple migrants.- Chapter 7: Partnership, parenthood and beyond: Between traditional and progressive ways of doing Polish family in Ireland.- Chapter 8: ‘Mother Pole abroad’: A (re)conceptualisation of motherhood through the experience of migration and employment in Ireland.- Chapter 9: ‘I was more emotional at the beginning … missing Poland a lot. But once you have kids it's different’: Keeping families connected.- Chapter 10: Well-being across the life course: Polish families in rural Ireland.- Chapter 11: Polish families investing in welfare futures: Perceptions, experiences and aspirations.- Chapter 12: Conclusion: Converging paths and new directions of Polish migrant families in Ireland.