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"Since the onset of the economic crisis, the migration of European citizens within the European Union -- intra-European migration -- has increased dramatically. Severe recession in some older Western EU countries has led to a sharp rise in labour migration of young Europeans from these countries to other EU states. But amid these shifting migration patterns, another group of migrants has emerged. A growing number of European citizens now work in one EU country, but live in another, shuttling between the two on a routine basis. Work, Family and Commuting in Europe examines this ever-expanding group of 'Euro-commuters'. It examines their lives betwixt-and-between two EU countries, and addresses the following questions: Who are these Euro-commuters? What are their motives for undertaking this particular form of migration? How does commuting across the EU influence their personal, family, and social lives? And, what is the future for this unorthodox type of European migration?"--Provided by publisher

Since the onset of the economic crisis, the migration of European citizens within the European Union -- intra-European migration -- has increased dramatically. Severe recession in some older Western EU countries has led to a sharp rise in labour migration of young Europeans from these countries to other EU states. But amid these shifting migration patterns, another group of migrants has emerged. A growing number of European citizens now work in one EU country, but live in another, shuttling between the two on a routine basis. Work, Family and Commuting in Europe examines this ever-expanding group of 'Euro-commuters'. It examines their lives betwixt-and-between two EU countries, and addresses the following questions: Who are these Euro-commuters? What are their motives for undertaking this particular form of migration? How does commuting across the EU influence their personal, family, and social lives? And, what is the future for this unorthodox type of European migration?

Here I examine the masculinity/breadwinning nexus among a group of intra-European migrants, namely, those who commute for work between European states—or Euro-commuters. I focus specifically on professional male Euro-commuters, who live in the Republic of Ireland but work in another European Union (EU)-28 country. Examining their mobility decision-making process, I argue that the impetus behind Euro-commuting is strongly influenced by normative gender-based expectations around masculinity and breadwinning. Threatened with socioeconomic insecurity in austerity-hit Ireland, respondents struggled to sustain strongly gendered identities as their families' primary breadwinners. Consequently, by securing professional white-collar work in another EU-28 country, not only is downward social mobility from the Irish middle-class offset but also equally so is the threat to their firmly held masculine breadwinner identities. In securing this employment, then, my respondents were compensating for what they felt to be their "failed" masculinity during bouts of underemployment or unemployment; they were now performing masculinity "successfully" by working overseas. Effectively, Euro-commuting is a further means of reasserting hegemonic gender-based identities as middle-class male breadwinners. This mobility thereby contributes to novel patterns of reproducing privileged gender subjectivities.

AbstractIn this article, I examine the transnational identities that return migrants create upon resettlement in their country of origin. Specifically, I draw on interviews with Republic of Ireland‐born return migrants from the United States between the years 1996 and 2006. The analysis shows that return migrants – like other migrant groups – maintain and establish translocal identities and practices that straddle 'here' (Ireland) and 'there' (United States) upon return. However, the article goes further, asking why returnees develop such border‐spanning social fields. Some recent scholarship suggests that some migrants develop transnational identities as an adaptive response to a hostile receiving society. The analysis here shows a similar process at play for certain return migrants in the post‐return environment. Doubtless, for some returnees, a transnational identity is a natural outgrowth of having spent several years in the United States. Yet for others, one can better explain this transnational identity as a coping strategy to buffer resettlement anxieties and disappointments.

In this volume, a group of distinguished international scholars provides a fresh investigation of the most fundamental issues involved in our dependence on natural resources. In Scarcity and Growth (1963) and Scarcity and Growth Reconsidered (1979), researchers considered the long-term implications of resource scarcity for economic growth and human well-being. Scarcity and Growth Revisited examines these implications with 25 years of new learning and experience. It finds that concerns about resource scarcity have changed in essential ways. In contrast with the earlier preoccupation with the adequacy of fuel, mineral, and agricultural resources and the efficiency by which they are allocated, the greatest concern today is about the Earth's limited capacity to handle the environmental consequences of resource extraction and use. Opinion among scholars is divided on the ability of technological innovation to ameliorate this "new scarcity." However, even the book's more optimistic authors agree that the problems will not be successfully overcome without significant advances in the legal, financial and other social institutions that protect the environment and support technical innovation. Scarcity and Growth Revisited incorporates expert perspectives from the physical and life sciences, as well as economics. It includes issues confronting the developing world as well as advanced industrialized societies. --Publisher

Family rhythms is the first textbook of its kind with an explicit focus on Ireland and Irish families. Uniquely, the book draws on original in-depth interviews with people of different ages to introduce contemporary scholarship on the family and to illustrate how Irish families have adapted and changed over time. With chapters on childhood, adolescence, parenting and grandparenthood, the book shows the resilience of families in different social and historical contexts. Each chapter includes a discussion of the challenges that face families and how social research can inform policy makers' responses. A comprehensive, user-friendly textbook, Family rhythms offers a variety of strategies for engaging readers, including direct encounters with qualitative data through the use of classroom oriented discussion panels. Synopses of landmark Irish studies are included throughout, bringing the insights from these key studies together in a single textbook for the first time

This article examines the changing texture of intergenerational relationships in Ireland. Focusing on the young child as 'anchor' generation, we traced changes in the quality and significance of grandchild–grandparent relationships across four birth cohorts, through a secondary analysis of two major qualitative longitudinal datasets made available by the Irish Qualitative Data Archive. The article describes how we addressed the challenges associated with bringing these datasets into dialogue.