‘Generation Emigration’: the politics of (trans)national social reproduction in twenty-first-century Ireland.
Placing social reproduction at the heart of the experience of migration, this article attempts to move beyond regulatory discourses of emigration as tragedy, lifestyle choice or ‘the Skype generation’. Following a review of feminist literature on social reproduction, the article returns to research...
| Publicado en: | Irish Studies Review Vol. 21; no. 1; pp. 20 - 37 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Feb2013
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