ABSTRACT

This chapter considers the role of extended family and kinship in the experiences of children who move to Ireland as part of return-migrant families. Evidence suggests that children who were born outside Ireland and moved there as children with Irish return-migrant parents during the economic boom comprise a significant, though under-acknowledged, demographic group (Ní Laoire et al. 2011). Positioned simultaneously as children in Irish families and migrants to Ireland, they provide a unique perspective on family dynamics and structures of belonging in contemporary Irish society.