'Germs' in the heart of the other: emigrant scripts, the Celtic Tiger and lived realities of return

摘要: Abstract During the 1990s and 2000s, period coinciding with Ireland's economic social transformation ubiquitously referred to as ‘Celtic Tiger’ years, Irish nation transitioned from being an emigrant-sending immigrant-receiving society. In association this shift, considerable attention has been devoted new immigrant groups, including refugees asylum seekers more recently migrant workers EU accession states. same period, inward migration was consistently comprised of significant numbers former emigrants returning Ireland; however, place experiences return migrants received comparatively little mainstream media sources is a relatively recent development in scholarship on migration. Taking its impetus Piaras MacEinri's (2001) call for that places history emigration alongside contemporary immigration, paper critically explores scripts – representat...