Immigration: Labour Migrants, Asylum Seekers and Refugees

This chapter reviews the Irish migration experience, covering labour migrants, refugees and asylum seekers. Set within the book Understanding Contemporary Ireland, edited by Brendan Bartley and Rob Kitchin, the chapter provides an introduction to Ireland’s immigration experience. Overall, the book provides a detailed, student-friendly overview of Ireland in the twenty first century and the remarkable economic and social transformations that have occurred since the late 1980s, of which immigration is one part.