Co-founder and external member of Irish Centre for Transnational Studies

Gillian Jein (Member)

Activity: Other › Types of External academic engagement - Membership of external research organisation

Description

I am co-founder and external member of the Irish Centre for Transnational Studies based at Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick.

Period	2011 → …
Held at	Irish Centre for Transnational Studies

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The need for a transnational approach within different academic disciplines has become even more pressing in light of the current processes of globalisation and migration. While collective and individual identities seem increasingly hybrid, questions of alterity and exclusion remain relevant issues. This also applies to Ireland, not least because of its own history of migration, and the more recent experience of immigration following the EU-enlargement in 2004. While global phenomena traditionally have been defined in terms of the nation state, this concept is insufficient to account for complex networks and the movements of people, goods, and ideas throughout history. Transnational networks have been instrumental in shaping the course of Irish and other national histories and in the formation of cultural identities. Our experience is never only ‘national’ but rather a complicated dialectic of diverse ethnic, linguistic, regional, institutional and migrant identities.