{"id":55703,"date":"2018-02-12T22:14:24","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T22:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=55703"},"modified":"2018-02-12T22:14:24","modified_gmt":"2018-02-12T22:14:24","slug":"race-it-would-appear-complicates-things-an-irish-immigration-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=55703","title":{"rendered":"“Race, It Would Appear, Complicates Things”: An Irish Immigration Story"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Race, It Would Appear, Complicates Things”: An Irish Immigration Story<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Away<\/a>
\nTravel Journal<\/a>
\n2018-01-23<\/p>\n

Emma Dabiri<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nEmma Dabiri<\/a> is Irish, but when the inevitable \u201cWhere do you come from?\u201d is asked, the answer rarely satisfies the inquisitor. Photo by @thediasporadiva<\/a>.<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

In this series, we\u2019re highlighting the stories of people who remain connected to their home countries\u2014either those with immigrant parents or those who are immigrants themselves. With \u201cWe Are All Immigrants: Stories About the Places We\u2019re From,\u201d you\u2019ll hear from those most acutely affected by changing policies and a shifting reality, those who exist as part of multiple cultures at once. Here, London<\/a>-based professor and writer Emma Dabiri<\/a> explores what being an immigrant means to her and to her family.<\/em><\/p>\n

And although my parents were born and raised in countries not their own, I\u2019m not sure that the term immigrant applies to them in the way it does to me.<\/p>\n

I was born in Dublin<\/a> and have lived in London<\/a> for almost 20 years\u2014since I finished school\u2014which quite straightforwardly makes me an Irish immigrant. Ostensibly I am Irish, but when the inevitable \u201cWhere do you come from?\u201d is asked, that answer, rarely, if ever, satisfies people. Race, it would appear, complicates things…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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