ABSTRACT
The chapter focuses on the rights of Irish-born children to Irish citizenship. It discusses these policy developments in more detail, suggesting that they reflect the ways in which migrant children and youth are positioned in Irish society. The ways in which a number of global, European and local phenomena intersected in recent times make Ireland a particularly interesting context for the study of migrant childhoods. The chapter draws on the research across the four strands and explores the multiple ways in which these structures and policies are articulated in migrant children's lives in terms of material realities, mobilities and social capital. Global economic processes intersect with migration and citizenship regimes to shape the economic and material resources of children in very powerful ways. According to World Health Organisation (WHO) figures, Ireland is the safest country in Europe and its children are among the most physically active and most likely to have friends among 41 WHO countries.
