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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Just One of the ‘PIIGS’ or a European Outlier? Studying Irish Emigration from a Comparative Perspective

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Abstract:  The return of high levels of emigration has become one of the most debated and sensitive social topics in Ireland in recent years. But Irish emigration continues to be discussed in the singular rather than the plural. This paper compares Irish emigration to other Eurozone states that also encountered serious economic difficulties following the onset of the global financial … Read More

Author(s):Irial Glynn
Publisher:SAGE Journals
Publication Date:02 Nov 2015
Reference Period:01 Jan 2015 to 01 Jan 2020
URL:http://irj.sagepub.com/content/23/2/93.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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‘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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The Global Financial Crisis and migration: the experience of Irish graduates

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Purpose This paper identifies a group of Irish graduates who decided to emigrate following the global financial crash of 2008. The paper explores how the economic crisis in Ireland (2008-14) framed the experience of this group of migrants. Specifically, the paper examines the push/pull factors leading to migration; the experience of the graduate migrants in the host country; and decisions … Read More

Author(s):Simon Stephens, Jan Selmer and Luisa Helena Ferreira Pinto
Publisher:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Publication Date:01 Feb 2015
URL:http://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/abs/10.1108/JGM-06-2014-0017
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The migration of Irish-born footballers to England, 1945–2010

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Abstract Abstract This article will look at the experiences and achievement levels of Irish-born post-war football migrants to England using player interviews and secondary sources. The problems of cultural adaption, ‘bullying’ and anti-Irish abuse will be examined. The majority of Irish footballing migrants between 1945 and 2010 have not played in English football’s top division or gained senior international honours. … Read More

Author(s):Conor Curran
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Online
Publication Date:10 Oct 2014
Geographic Focus:null
URL:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14660970.2014.961372#.VEYfvvldU6V
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Football’s Irish exodus: Examining the factors influencing Irish player migration to English professional leagues

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Abstract The intention of this paper is to examine the range of interdependent processes that influence the decisions of Irish footballers to migrate from teams based in the League of Ireland to English Premier League and Football League clubs. Using data derived from a series of qualitative interviews conducted with a group of Irish players that had relocated to English … Read More

Author(s):Richard Elliott
Publisher:SAGE Publications
Publication Date:11 Feb 2014
URL:http://irs.sagepub.com/content/early/2014/02/09/1012690213519786.abstract
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Changing Ireland, 2000-2012: Immigration, Emigration and Inequality

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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, … Read More

Author(s):Mary Gilmartin
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Online
Publication Date:07 May 2013
Geographic Focus:Ireland
URL:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00750778.2013.794323#.UaifDECG1i4
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Time to go? A Qualitative Research Study Exploring the Experience and Impact of Emigration on Ireland’s Youth

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By interviewing young people who have emigrated to the UK and to Canada about their experience, the study explores: Where are Irish youth emigrating to and why? How are they settling into life in their host country? What are the challenges they have encountered on this journey? What supports would have made their move easier? Do they envisage returning home in … Read More

Author(s):Marie-Claire McAleer
Publisher:National Youth Council of Ireland (NYCI)
Publication Date:01 Apr 2013
Geographic Focus:Ireland
URL:http://www.youth.ie/sites/youth.ie/files/NYCI_Youth_Emigration_Report.pdf
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Compare and contrast: understanding Irish migration to Britain in a wider context

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This article explores the potential for comparative research across different migrant groups. Research on migration is often weakened by the marked tendency to use a single ethnic/national group as the unit of analysis. Analysing migration from the experiences of a particular ethnic group may exaggerate ethnic exceptionalism and understate the extent to which experiences are shared across different migrant groups. … Read More

Author(s):Louise Ryan
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Online
Publication Date:18 Mar 2013
Geographic Focus:Ireland, United Kingdom
URL:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09670882.2012.759710#.UimjwMaG1i4
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‘Generation Emigration’: the politics of (trans)national social reproduction in twenty-first-century Ireland

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Placing social reproduction at the heart of the experience of migration, this article attempts to move beyond regulatory discourses of emigration as tragedy, lifestyle choice or ‘the Skype generation’. Following a review of feminist literature on social reproduction, the article returns to research with Irish women migrants and non-migrants in the 1990s to demonstrate how technologically mediated ‘time-space compression’ and … Read More

Author(s):Breda Gray
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Online
Publication Date:14 Mar 2013
Geographic Focus:Ireland
URL:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09670882.2012.759707#.UimkBsaG1i4
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Fatherhood and Transmission in the Context of Migration: An Irish and a Polish Case

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  Abstract The article compares men’s biographies and fatherhood across two generations among the Irish and the Polish, who represent different waves of migration to Britain, focusing on two chains of fathers and sons. It examines different aspects of transmission between fathers and sons and, in the context of migration, the part that generational experience played in how men identify … Read More

Author(s):Julia Brannen, Ann Mooney, Valerie Wigfall and Violetta Parutis
Publisher:John Wiley and Sons
Publication Date:08 Mar 2013
Geographic Focus:null
URL:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/imig.12067/abstract
ISBN:null
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Irish Emigration in an Age of Austerity

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This research project is a study of contemporary Irish emigration. The project adopted a complex and statistically precise sampling strategy to obtain a sample of households in Ireland, and emigrants abroad, that maximized representativeness. This is a critical difference between it and studies that have gone before, insofar as the statistics reported are built upon a solid statistical foundation and … Read More

Author(s):Irial Glynn, Tomás Kelly and Piaras MacÉinr
Publisher:Emigre
Publication Date:01 Jan 2013
URL:http://www.ucc.ie/en/emigre/emigrereport/
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Irish Emigration in an Age of Austerity

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This research project is a study of contemporary Irish emigration. The project adopted a complex and statistically precise sampling strategy to obtain a sample of households in Ireland, and emigrants abroad, that maximized representativeness. This is a critical difference between it and studies that have gone before, insofar as the statistics reported are built upon a solid statistical foundation and … Read More

Author(s):Irial Glynn, Tomás Kelly and Piaras MacÉinr
Publisher:Emigre
Publication Date:01 Jan 2013
URL:http://www.ucc.ie/en/emigre/emigrereport/
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Irish Emigration in an Age of Austerity

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This research project is a study of contemporary Irish emigration. The project adopted a complex and statistically precise sampling strategy to obtain a sample of households in Ireland, and emigrants abroad, that maximized representativeness. This is a critical difference between it and studies that have gone before, insofar as the statistics reported are built upon a solid statistical foundation and … Read More

Author(s):Irial Glynn, Tomás Kelly and Piaras MacÉinr
Publisher:Emigre
Publication Date:01 Jan 2013
URL:http://www.ucc.ie/en/emigre/emigrereport/
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A short survey of Irish people using bus services to emigrate to Britain

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This survey was an attempt to measure to what extent people used the Eurolines Bus services to Britain for the purposes of emigration, employment and more specifically the crisis type of emigration as reported in the Still Leaving report from 2005. The survey also aimed to obtain some case studies from people in these categories. The Eurolines services are one … Read More

Author(s):Crosscare Migrant Project
Publisher:Crosscare Migrant Project
Publication Date:01 Aug 2012
Geographic Focus:Ireland, Britain
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‘I want to be all I can Irish’: the role of performance and performativity in the construction of ethnicity

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Abstract Over the past few decades, ethnicity, amongst third generation and beyond descendants of European immigrants in America, is thought to have evolved from a group-oriented protectorate to a more individualized form of identity. ‘Symbolic ethnicity’ is the name given by sociologists, who, working in the 1980s and 1990s within the confines of traditional assimilation theory, thought this to be … Read More

Author(s):Thomas Sullivan
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Online
Publication Date:28 Jun 2012
Geographic Focus:null
URL:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14649365.2012.698746#.U9ZmQ_ldU6V
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Annual Report on Migration and International Protection Statistics 2009

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Abstract This EMN Synthesis Report summarises the main findings of National Reports analysing migration and international protection statistics for the year 2009. Topics covered are Indicators of the Effect of the Economic Crisis; Legal Immigration and Emigration; Irregular Migration: Refusals, Apprehensions and Return; and International Protection, including Asylum.

Author(s):European Migration Network
Publisher:Directorate General for Home Affairs, European Commission
Publication Date:01 Jun 2012
Reference Period:01 Jan 2009 to 31 Dec 2009
Geographic Focus:Europe
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