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.
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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. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education 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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