Polish Migration to Ireland: ‘Free Movers’ in the New European Mobility Space

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Since EU enlargement in 2004, Ireland has emerged as a major destination for Polish migrants. What are the particular features of this East–West migration? Based on repeat interviews with Polish migrants as part of a Qualitative Panel Study, we show that this migration is characterised by new mobility patterns. As ‘free movers’, Polish migrants are more mobile across national borders … Read More

Author(s):Torben Krings, Alicja Bobek, Elaine Moriarty, Justyna Salamonska and James Wickham
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Online
Publication Date:03 Oct 2012
Geographic Focus:Ireland, Poland
URL:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2012.723250
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Managing Sameness and Difference: the Politics of Belonging among Irish-born Return Migrants from the United States

Contemporary immigration in Western countries spurs intense debates about immigrant–host society relationships, asking questions about who and what it means to belong in such immigrant-receiving societies. In the Republic of Ireland, the debate about belonging in the wake of large-scale in-migration during the ‘Celtic Tiger’ years placed the onus on newcomers to shed their ‘difference’ and conform to Irish society’s … Read More

Author(s):David Ralph
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Online
Publication Date:28 Jun 2012
Geographic Focus:Ireland, United States of America
URL:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2012.698747
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Temporary and Circular Migration: What are the current policy, practice and future options for EU Member States?: EMN Inform


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The EMN’s Temporary and Circular Migration Study analysed the characteristics of temporary (broadly understood to refer to a single movement and then limited stay in the EU) and circular (considered in the context of a back-and-forth movement between the EU and a country of origin) migration policy and practice across 24 EU Member States. The interest in temporary and circular … Read More

Author(s):European Migration Network
Publisher:Directorate General Home Affairs, European Commission
Publication Date:31 Dec 2011
Geographic Focus:Europe
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Temporary and Circular Migration: empirical evidence, current policy practice and future options in EU Member States: EMN Synthesis Report


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Abstract This study explores the characteristics of circular and repetitive migration patterns and temporary labour migration, looking at third-country nationals moving to the EU for short-term employment, seasonal work and research, as well as at settled migrants, living in the EU, moving temporarily to their countries of origin. The study provides  an overview of the different policy preferences, views and … Read More

Author(s):European Migration Network
Publisher:Directorate General Home Affairs, European Commission
Publication Date:04 Oct 2011
Reference Period:01 Jan 2004 to 31 Dec 2010
Geographic Focus:European
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Annual Policy Report 2010: EMN Synthesis Report

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This report provides an overview into the most significant political and legislative (including EU) developments, as well as public debates, in the area of asylum and migration, with the focus on third-country nationals rather than EU nationals, for the period 1 January 2010 to 31 December 2010.  The report was also used in the elaboration of the Commission’s Tracking Method … Read More

Author(s):European Migration Network
Publisher:Directorate General for Home Affairs, European Commission
Publication Date:01 Sep 2011
Reference Period:01 Oct 2010 to 31 Dec 2010
Geographic Focus:Europe
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Temporary and Circular Migration: Ireland

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Abstract The current study is intended to promote understanding of temporary and circular migration by Third Country nationals to Ireland. Most migration policy development in Ireland has been related to migration that is ultimately viewed as temporary. Ireland’s policy decision to prioritise migration from the enlarged EU in 2004 facilitated the entry of workers to a tight labour market. Emigration … Read More

Author(s):Emma Quinn
Publisher:Economic and Social Research Institute
Publication Date:27 Jul 2011
Reference Period:01 May 2004 to 31 Jan 2011
Geographic Focus:Ireland
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Narratives of ‘Innocent Irish Childhoods’: Return Migration and Intergenerational Family Dynamics

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There is growing recognition of the significance of circular and return migration in contemporary global migration flows. Although many return moves involve adults accompanied by their children, these migrant children are a relatively invisible and under-researched group. In this article I explore the experiences of children who have moved to Ireland with their Irish return-migrant parent(s)—a group who were born … Read More

Author(s):Caitríona Ní Laoire
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Online
Publication Date:30 Jun 2011
Geographic Focus:Ireland
URL:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2011.590928
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Returning to the Question of a Wage Premium for Returning Migrants

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Using data from a large-scale survey of employees in Ireland, we estimate the extent to which people who have emigrated from Ireland and returned earn more relative to comparable people who have never lived abroad. In so doing, we test the hypothesis that migration can be part of a process of human capital formation. We find through OLS estimation that … Read More

Author(s):Alan Barrett and Jean Goggin (ESRI)
Publisher:Sage Publications
Publication Date:20 Jul 2010
Geographic Focus:Ireland
URL:http://ner.sagepub.com/content/213/1/R43
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Migration and Recession: Polish Migrants in Post-Celtic Tiger Ireland

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In this paper we explore the impact of the current economic downturn on Polish migrants in the Irish labour market. Ireland appears to be well suited to study the impact of the recession on intra-European migration. The country has not only experienced large-scale inward migration from the new EU Member states (NMS) in recent years, but has also been severely … Read More

Author(s):Torben Krings, Alicja Bobek, Elaine Moriarty, Justyna Salamonska and James Wickham
Publisher:Sociological Research Online
Publication Date:30 May 2009
Geographic Focus:Ireland
URL:http://www.socresonline.org.uk/14/2/9.html
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The Process of Reinvention of Self: The Experiences of Returning Irish Emigrants

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Irish migration at the end of the twentieth century encompasses complex and multidimensional processes. Whereas Irish emigrants were once drawn almost exclusively from the agricultural and laborer classes, in the closing decades of the twentieth century emigration came to permeate the entire social system. Thus, Irish migrants are to be found not just among the ranks of skilled and semi-skilled … Read More

Author(s):Mary Corcoran
Publisher:Irish American Cultural Institute
Publication Date:23 Jan 2009
Geographic Focus:Ireland
URL:http://eprints.nuim.ie/1209/
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Multinational Investment and Return Migration in Ireland: A County Level Analysis

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The mobility transition from emigration to immigration in Ireland in the 1990s resulted in significant return migration, whose relationship to new multinational jobs at the micro-scale has not been investigated. Spatial analyses of county data (Census and IDA) reveal that return migration was high in areas with high MNC and other job growth such as greater Dublin and the central … Read More

Author(s):Richard C. Jones
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Online
Publication Date:01 Jan 2003
Geographic Focus:Ireland
URL:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00750770309555819#.UZOapLWG1i4
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