M. Moskal
‘When I think home I think family here and there’: Translocal and social ideas of home in narratives of migrant children and young people
Moskal, M.
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Abstract
This paper offers theoretically informed empirical insights into migrant children’s experiences of mobility and home. Drawing on research into the first-generation children of Polish labour migrants in Scotland, the paper explores the meanings that children attach to home and other specific places. In particular, it focuses on questions of the translocal and social nature of migrant children’s sense of place and construction of home. The spoken narratives, subjective maps and drawings analysed here reflect children’s multiple and intersecting relationships and identifications, with both their country of origin and the host country, in addition to how their notion of home is grounded in social attachments. Emphasising the continuing importance of ‘place’ in migrant children and young people’s everyday experiences, the research concludes that subjective homemaking practices are just as important as objective educational attainment and other traditional social indicators in providing an understanding of the outcomes of migrant settlement. It also suggests that there is an emerging translocal identity among some young Polish migrants, whose changing understanding of home incorporates images and emotions from both their locality of origin and their current place of residence.
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Moskal, M. (2015). ‘When I think home I think family here and there’: Translocal and social ideas of home in narratives of migrant children and young people. Geoforum, 58, 143-152. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2014.11.011
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Nov 11, 2014 |
Online Publication Date | Nov 27, 2014 |
Publication Date | Jan 1, 2015 |
Deposit Date | May 9, 2017 |
Publicly Available Date | May 11, 2017 |
Journal | Geoforum |
Print ISSN | 0016-7185 |
Publisher | Elsevier |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 58 |
Pages | 143-152 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2014.11.011 |
Related Public URLs | http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/100695/ |
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NOTICE: this is the author's version of a work that was accepted for publication in Geoforum. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Geoforum, 58, January 2015, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2014.11.011
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