ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the children's discussions and visual representations of their experiences of moving from EU member states in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) to Ireland. It addresses the key gap in current conceptualisations of East-West family migration in Europe, namely, the experiences of children in EU migrant worker families. The primary motivation for the families with children who had migrated to Ireland from CEE between 2004 and 2008 was economic. The chapter shows the processes of migration and integration are not necessarily insurmountable for children or necessarily problematic in long term but they are challenging and need to be understood within context of their everyday socio-spatial practices and migration trajectories. It explores the young people's apparent foregrounding of their national identities in context of their recent experiences of migration to Ireland. Children asserted agency in their everyday lives in relation to their friendships and spatial practices, and these are often based on shared nationality and/or a shared migrant experience.
