Transition and transformation

Nigerian familial formations in Ireland's spaces of regulation and regimentation

Bibliographic Data

ID12915774
AuthorsAnaele Diala Iroh (Bard College at Simon's Rock, corresponding author)
Year2009
Volume3
Issue1
Pages69-89
Publication date2009-12-16
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAfrican and Black Diaspora An International Journal (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1752-8631 • E-ISSN: 1752-864X
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17528630903319847
OpenAlexW1967603274
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited22

Beginning in the late 1990s, Ireland witnessed a phenomenal growth in the number of immigrants arriving in the country. Nigerian families constitute a part of this immigrant presence in Ireland, underlying a discernable contrast to previous patterns of male, or single migration from Nigeria. Based on a visual ethnographic work on Nigerian immigrant families in Ireland, this paper explores the dialogic relation between the Irish state and its Nigerian immigrant family subjects. On one hand, the paper evaluates regulatory immigration and citizenship policies, with a special focus on the institution of Direct Provision for asylum seekers in Ireland, to demonstrate how the Irish state suspends and alters generally applicable rights and laws based on the necessity to discourage the inflow of particular immigrants populations. On the other hand it examines how the motives for migration for the families in view, as well as the strategies and processes they deploy in negotiating citizenship present a strategic subversion of Ireland's borders and citizenship. The transformation of normative and emergence of new familial practices as well as the demographic structure of Nigerian migration to Ireland, the paper argues, are contingent upon such dialogic relations

Citizenship · Dialogic · Immigration · Irish · Migration studies · Negotiation · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Gender Studies · HIV, TB, and STIs Epidemiology · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Romani and Gypsy Studies

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