Illegal employment of third country nationals: 2017 – 2022 EMN Study

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  This EMN study documents the illegal employment of third-country nationals in EMN Member Countries between 2017-2022, building on the earlier EMN study until 2017. It includes an up-to-date analysis of key legislative and policy frameworks and practices to prevent, identify and tackle the illegal employment of third-country nationals, including beneficiaries of temporary protection (BoTP). It also provides examples of … Read More

Author(s):European Migration Network
Publisher:Directorate General Migration and Home Affairs, European Commission
Publication Date:24 Feb 2025
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Illegal employment of third country nationals: 2017 – 2022 EMN Flash

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  This EMN Flash offers a short overview of the main topics covered by the EMN study on Illegal Employment of third-country nationals: 2017 – 2022 situation analysis. For the purposes of this study, in the EU context, illegal employment covers both the illegal employment of third-country nationals irregularly staying on the territory of an EU Member State and legally … Read More

Author(s):European Migration Network
Publisher:Directorate General Migration and Home Affairs, European Commission
Publication Date:24 Feb 2025
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Illegal employment of third-country nationals: 2017 – 2022 EMN Inform

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  This EMN Inform offers a concise overview of the main topics covered by the EMN study on illegal employment of third-country nationals: 2017 – 2022 situation analysis. It documents the illegal employment of third-country nationals in EMN Member Countries between 2017-2022, building on the earlier EMN study until 2017. It includes an up-to-date analysis of key legislative and policy … Read More

Author(s):European Migration Network
Publisher:Directorate General Migration and Home Affairs, European Commission
Publication Date:24 Feb 2025
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Integration of applicants for international protection in the labour market: EMN Study

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  This EMN Study offers an overview of how EMN Member Countries are supporting the integration of applicants for international protection in the labour market. Labour market integration is a crucial aspect of migrant integration and successful engagement in society. This is not only due to its role in providing economic independence but also because it has an impact on … Read More

Author(s):European Migration Network
Publisher:Directorate General for Migration and Home Affairs, European Commission
Publication Date:09 Oct 2023
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Getting Right to Work: Access to employment and decent work for international protection applicants in Ireland

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  Click here to download the report This report contributes to the realisation of the right to decent work for international protection applicants in Ireland. It does so by documenting the barriers they face to obtaining employment and decent work, examining the effectiveness of employment support programmes, and identifying measures to be taken to ensure access to decent work for … Read More

Author(s):Doras
Publisher:Doras
Publication Date:29 Mar 2021
Geographic Focus:Ireland
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Working to the bone: the experiences of migrant workers in the meat sector in Ireland

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  View File  Migrant Rights Centre Ireland (MRCI) has been supporting agri-food workers to address workplace issues since its inception in 2001. MRCI supports workers with an average of 2,200 cases annually across agri-food, home care, cleaning, hotel, restaurants and catering, and on a range of work permit and immigration issues. Workers in the meat processing sector were some of … Read More

Author(s):Migrant Rights Centre Ireland
Publisher:Migrant Rights Centre Ireland
Publication Date:26 Nov 2020
Geographic Focus:Ireland
URL:https://www.mrci.ie/app/uploads/2020/11/Report_Working-to-the-bone_final.pdf
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Ethnicity and nationality in the Irish labour market


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This study entitled looks at Central Statistics Office data from the Quarterly National Household Survey Equality Modules from 2004, 2010 and 2014 to capture how labour market outcomes and the experience of discrimination have changed through economic boom, recession and early recovery. The research published by the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission and the Economic and Social Research Institute … Read More

Author(s):Frances McGinnity, Raffaele Grotti, Sarah Groarke, Sarah Coughlan
Publisher:Economic and Social Research Institute
Publication Date:18 Dec 2018
Geographic Focus:Ireland
ISBN:978-0-7070-0479-2
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Illegal employment of non-EU nationals in Ireland


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Abstract This is the first comprehensive study on illegal employment concerning both regularly and irregularly staying non-EU nationals in Ireland, which outlines in detail policy and practice with input from a variety of stakeholders. Its purpose is to provide an evidence base for national and EU policymakers, researchers, practitioners working with non-EEA nationals as well as the general public. The … Read More

Author(s):Samantha Arnold, Susan Whelan and Emma Quinn
Publisher:Economic and Social Research Institute
Publication Date:06 Jul 2017
Geographic Focus:Ireland
ISBN:978-0-7070-0436-5
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Ireland’s Recession and the Immigrant-Native Earnings Gap

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Ireland’s Recession and the Immigrant-Native Earnings Gap in Labour Migration, EU Enlargement and the Great Recession Source: Martin Kahanec, Klaus Zimmerman (Ed.) , Labor Migration, EU Enlargement, and the Great Recession

Author(s):Alan Barrett, Adele Bergin, Elish Kelly, Seamus McGuinness
Publisher:Springer
Publication Date:18 May 2016
Geographic Focus:Ireland
URL:http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-662-45320-9
ISBN:978-3-662-45319-3
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“Finding their way”: the negotiation of the city by low-skilled service sector migrant workers in Dublin

Abstract The city has become the context for a dialectical relationship not only between the global and the local but also between migrants and the host society. Whilst there is considerable work on migrant integration, integration is rarely examined from the perspective of the workplace, or from a geographic perspective, which problematizes the spatiality of migrant workers’ experiences. This article … Read More

Author(s):Siobhán Rachel McPhee
Publisher:Taylor and Francis Online
Publication Date:01 Dec 2015
URL:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02723638.2015.1101875
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Determining Labour and Skills Shortages and the Need for Labour Migration in Ireland

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This study explores the extent to which research on the Irish labour market guides economic migration policy-making. An overview is provided of the process in place for identifying labour and skills shortages, and the mechanisms and tools used for that purpose. The study shows that direct information linkages exist between the responsible bodies: the Skills and labour Market Research Unit … Read More

Author(s):Egle Gusciute, Emma Quinn and Alan Barrett
Publisher:Economic and Social Research Institute
Publication Date:25 Nov 2015
Geographic Focus:Ireland
ISBN:ISBN 978-0-7070-0395-5
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Determining labour shortages and the need for labour migration from third countries in the EU: EMN Synthesis

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Shortages of workers with relevant qualifications have become a major challenge affecting European competitiveness. In the context of rapid technological change, Europe’s declining population and ageing workforce mean that labour shortages are expected to increase in the future.   The aim of the study is to analyse how Member States employ labour migration to address the identified labour shortages. The … Read More

Author(s):European Migration Network
Publisher:Directorate General Migration and Home Affairs, European Commission
Publication Date:10 Nov 2015
Geographic Focus:Europe
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Graduate Emigration from Ireland: Navigating New Pathways in Familiar Places

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Abstract This article examines the ability of young Irish graduates to enact mobility as a form of personal and career development both during economic expansion and recession. Of particular interest is the observation that Irish graduates are much more mobile than those in other countries which were also badly affected by the recession. Drawing from a study of recent Irish … Read More

Author(s):Elaine Moriarty, James Wickham, Sally Daly and Alicja Bobek
Publisher:SAGE Journals
Publication Date:02 Nov 2015
URL:http://irj.sagepub.com/content/23/2/71.abstract
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‘It’s Different Now’: A Narrative Analysis of Recent Irish Migrants Making Sense of Migration and Comparing Themselves with Previous Waves of Migrants

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Abstract:  The key aim of this paper is to consider how young professionals, who left Ireland since the economic recession, define their migration project – not just individually but also as a shared experience across their generation. Using narrative analysis and the concept of ‘speech acts’, I explore how these young people working in England talk about and make sense … Read More

Author(s):Louise Ryan
Publisher:SAGE Journals
Publication Date:02 Nov 2015
URL:http://irj.sagepub.com/content/23/2/114.abstract
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Recruiting the “culturally compatible” migrant: Irish Working Holiday migration and white settler Canadianness

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Abstract Working Holiday programs have been identified as an increasingly significant source of temporary migrant labor for several wealthy states. This case study adds to limited work on this phenomenon in the Canadian context by offering a partial chronology of Irish Working Holiday migration to Canada and a critical analysis of Canadian government discourse that positioned Irish migrants as not … Read More

Author(s):Jane Helleiner
Publisher:SAGE Journals
Publication Date:16 Oct 2015
URL:http://etn.sagepub.com/content/early/2015/10/15/1468796815610354.abstract
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Social Networks and Labour Market Access among Brazilian Migrants in Ireland

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Abstract  This paper investigates migrant access to employment using concepts from Granovetter [1973. “The Strength of Weak Ties.” American Journal of Sociology 78 (6): 1360–1380; Granovetter, M. 1983. “The Strength of Weak Ties: A Network Theory Revisited.” Sociological Theory 1: 201–233] relating to ‘strong’ and ‘weak’ ties in networks and from Coleman [1988. “Social Capital in the Creation of Human … Read More

Author(s):Garret Maher and Mary Cawley
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Online
Publication Date:14 Oct 2015
URL:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369183X.2015.1061424#.ViDUSflVhBc
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‘Always up for the craic’: young Irish professional migrants narrating ambiguous positioning in contemporary Britain

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Abstract Abstract This paper explores the experiences of recent Irish highly qualified migrants who, having left post-Celtic Tiger Ireland, arrive in post-‘Peace Agreement’ Britain. Our paper contributes to understanding the enduring salience of place and how expressions of identities are framed by specific place-based factors as well as by temporality. We explore how these migrants’ narratives, as ‘successful’ professionals, are … Read More

Author(s):Louise Ryan and Edina Kurdi
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Online
Publication Date:04 Aug 2015
URL:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13504630.2015.1058707#.Vcm2PvlVhBc
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Friendship-making: Exploring Network Formations through the Narratives of Irish Highly Qualified Migrants in Britain

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Abstract The paper, drawing on narrative analysis of qualitative research with Irish highly qualified migrants in Britain, examines the processes of friendship-making in contexts of mobility. In so doing, I consider what stories of making new friends in new places, reveal about interconnections between selection opportunities but also obstacles, as well as the role of preferences and shared interests. My … Read More

Author(s):Louise Ryan
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Online
Publication Date:11 Mar 2015
URL:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369183X.2015.1015409
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Discrimination in the labour market: nationality, ethnicity and the recession

Abstract Previous research shows that immigrants, in common with other groups that suffer disadvantage in the labour market, are more vulnerable during recession. However, little research has focused on the impact of the Great Recession on work-related discrimination. We examine the extent to which discrimination varies across different national-ethnic groups in Ireland, and whether discrimination increased between 2004, during an … Read More

Author(s):Gillian Kingston (ESRI), Frances McGinnity (ESRI) and Philip J O’Connell (UCD)
Publisher:SAGE Journals
Publication Date:06 Mar 2015
URL:http://wes.sagepub.com/content/early/2015/03/04/0950017014563104.abstract
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Migrant workers and the north of Ireland: between neo-liberalism and sectarianism

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Abstract Abstract In 1998, the north of Ireland emerged from a protracted civil insurgency sustained by a socio-political infrastructure comprising an expanded Keynesian welfare state and a developing neo-liberal economy. This provided the context for significant migration to the North after 2004. While research highlights migrant experiences not dissimilar to those in other parts of the UK and Ireland after … Read More

Author(s):Brian Garvey and Paul Stewart
Publisher:SAGE Journals
Publication Date:06 Mar 2015
URL:http://wes.sagepub.com/content/29/3/392.abstract?etoc
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