ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book focuses on migrant children's belongings and the lived realities of longing and attachment which mark their social worlds. It explores the connections between the children's articulations of identity and their formations of belonging and attachment. The book presents the evidence of the ways in which migrant children and young people can experience processes of othering or exclusion among peers. The narratives and conversations with African/Irish children and young people revealed how discourses of inclusion and exclusion organised around 'race' and ethnicity are deeply entrenched within the structures of Irish society. Thus while articulating that English language tuition polices in schools reinforced their sense of not-belonging in Ireland, many Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) young people spoke of the centrality of shared nationality and language in forming peer friendship groups.
