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Narratives of success among Irish and African Caribbean migrants

Brannen, J; Elliott, H; Phoenix, A; (2016) Narratives of success among Irish and African Caribbean migrants. Ethnic and Racial Studies , 39 (10) pp. 1755-1772. 10.1080/01419870.2015.1124125. Green open access

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Abstract

This paper compares the narratives of two men in midlife who migrated to the UK from Ireland and from the Caribbean as children, in the middle of the last century. We examine how success is narrated over the life course to show how migrants’ positioning of themselves differs from the ways in which they are positioned by outsiders, including in policy and public discourse. We conclude that while outsider narratives often polarise success and failure, insider understandings of success are dynamic and culturally and historically situated.

Type: Article
Title: Narratives of success among Irish and African Caribbean migrants
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2015.1124125
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2015.1124125
Language: English
Additional information: © 2016 The Author(s). Published by Taylor & Francis. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Social Research Institute
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1475740
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