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Migration, life narratives, memory and subjectivity: Reflections on an archival project on Irish migration

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  • Breda Gray

    (Department of Sociology, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland.)

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This article considers three theoretical approaches (late-modern, post-modern and feminist) to the apparent obsession with self-narration and memory in the early twenty-first century as they relate to an archival project on Irish migra-tion. This archival project focused on the life narratives of those who wit-nessed mass out-migration from 1950s Ireland. The article reflects on the ex-tent to which this project and the motivations of both the researchers and con-tributors reflect these theoretical accounts of the biographical turn.

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  • Breda Gray, 2009. "Migration, life narratives, memory and subjectivity: Reflections on an archival project on Irish migration," Migration Letters, Migration Letters, vol. 6(2), pages 109-117, October.
  • Handle: RePEc:mig:journl:v:6:y:2009:i:2:p:109-117
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