Changing Ireland, 2000–2012: immigration, emigration and inequality

Abstract

At the start of the twenty-first century, there have been significant changes in patterns of migration to and from Ireland. This paper provides a comprehensive account of available statistics on these migration patterns, and assesses the quality of this information, highlighting issues with the measurement of migrant flow in particular. The paper also provides information on migrant stock in Ireland, drawing on detailed information from the 2002, 2006 and 2011 Censuses, and shows how available data sources might illuminate the relationship between migration and inequality.

‘I have not witnessed it personally myself, but…’: Epistemics in managing talk on racism against immigrants in Ireland

“…These orientations resonate with findings from other studies that examine broader phenomena such as media discourses on migration and racism in Ireland (Burroughs, ; Conway, 2007). In settings such as Ireland, where it is routinely held that racism and anti‐racism simultaneously occur (Lentin & McVeigh, 2002) and where complexities of migration (Gilmartin, , ) upend the standard story of an inward migration that is unwanted or problematic, it is perhaps the case that issues of epistemic access and rights become available as resources for negotiating talk on racism. The experiences and accounts of Irish emigrants to the United Kingdom or the United States of America, and the subsequent racialisation and exclusion (Mac an Ghaill, ; Gilmartin, ), while complex, could perhaps inform such explicit negotiation of rights.…”

“…Scholars argue that in Ireland, owing to its complex migration history (Conway, ; Gilmartin, ), issues of racism and discrimination against migrants are also complex (Garner, ; Lentin, ). These features make Ireland a unique context in which to examine epistemic issues involved in racism.…”

“…Over much of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries Ireland was an ‘emigration nation’ (Crowley, Gilmartin, & Kitchin, ). Recently, however, there has been a notable immigration into Ireland mostly from counties within the European Union (EU) and also from countries outside the EU such as Nigeria, India, and Philippines (Gilmartin, ). In 2017, there was a net inward migration of 19,800 (CSO, , ).…”

Religion And The Social Integration Of Migrants In Dublin, Ireland

“…First, the Republic of Ireland has historically been a nation of emigrants. Net migration into Ireland did not begin on a sustained level until the mid‐1990s (Gilmartin ) and based on the 2011 census (CSO ), the foreign‐born population now represents approximately 17 percent of Ireland's total population, which is a higher percentage of foreign‐born individuals than a majority of European countries (UN ) . Moreover, the relatively recent nature of this demographic development means that we are witnessing firsthand how a nation that has had no real history with such a large‐scale immigrant population is adjusting to this new reality.…”

Home stories: immigrant narratives of place and identity in contemporary Ireland

“…In the period from 2000 to 2012, almost 1 million people immigrated to the Republic of (Gilmartin 2013). EU nationals are free to move to and work in Ireland.…”