A Negotiated Sharing of Space: Globalization, Borders, and Identity of African Asylum Seekers in Ireland

Narratives of negotiation: Transnational marriage migration in northern British Columbia.

“…As a result of this multi-sited positioning, transmigrants may experience feelings o f fragmentation or 'inbetweenness' (Ley 2004, 169-70); alternatively, engagement in new activities and the construction o f new relationships may result in the reshaping, hybridization, or multiplication of transmigrants' understanding of self, identity, and culture. Undoubtedly, these multi-local interactions and experiences provide transmigrants with opportunities to negotiate place making strategies and/or identities which either resist or accommodate new constructions o f self, "race", ethnicity, gender and nationality within their social fields (Glick Schiller et al, 1992, 12-14;Smith 2009). …”

“…Rather, transnationalism informs my theoretical approach, and as such, my analysis will highlight specific behaviors to explore how foreign brides' transnational experiences affect the renegotiation of sense o f self, place and identity. As such, the value in using transnationalism is threefold: 1) a transnational lens allows me to conceptualize the world as a dynamic system, rather than categorizing my analysis within fragmented understandings o f specific locations and networks of influence (Goldring & Krishnamurti 2007); 2) transnational theory will enable me to understand, define and describe how my participants' experiences are situated in, and transformed by, social, cultural, political, and economic conditions of their home and host countries (Nolin 2001, 61;Smith 2009); and 3) awareness o f transnationalism 'from above' and 'from below' (Smith & Guamizo 1998) will allow me to evaluate how power and mobility is manifested within the process of marriage and migration, as well as assess how transnational factors will affect the development and maintenance o f social, cultural, political, and financial relationships during settlement and integration (Levitt & Glick Schiller 2004, 1013.…”

Examining integration of refugees in multicultural Ireland: policy, advocacy and lived experience

“…However, it is important to note that the government is invoking these terms with specific intents and goals in mind for the purpose of governing the Irish state. The underlying assumptions of these themes at the government level therefore have major implications for how these terms are understood within the country (Bryan 2008; Busbin & White 20 1 0; Cullen 2009;Fanning 2006Fanning , 2011Gray 2006b;Smith 2008Smith , 2009.…”

“…These questions include: how spatial control is used in response to migrants (Bushin & White 201 0;Smith 2009); what the roles ofNGO advocacy groups are in response to refugees (Barasko 2005;Cullen 2009); and how racism affects refugees (Fanning 2011;Lentin & McVeigh 2006;McVeigh & Lentin 2002). These are valuable points of inquiry because they explore social dimensions between marginalized groups and socially dominant or powerful groups.…”