Ireland: An “Emigrant Nursery” in the World Economy

Laughlìn, Jim Mac

doi:10.1111/j.1468-2435.1993.tb00722.x

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“…By the 1980s, professional and non‐manual workers (NESC ) were over‐represented among emigrants, but emigration continued to act as a survival strategy for working‐class and small‐farming families (McLaughlin ). While most went to Britain and Europe, many entered the US as undocumented migrants.…”

Section: The Irish Catholic Church – a Sending Churchmentioning

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The Politics of Migration, Church, and State: A Case Study of the Catholic Church in Ireland

Gray

2016

International Migration Review

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This article investigates the ways in which a shift from post-colonial nation building to neoliberal state restructuring has shaped church and Irish state relations regarding migrant welfare. It develops the extensive work of B€ ackstr€ om and Davie (2010) and B€ ackstr€ om et al.(2011) on how majority churches in European countries are reclaiming a social welfare role as the state relinquishes this responsibility: first, by examining the domain of migrant welfare which is not developed in their work; and second, by arguing that majority church promigrant service provision, as it has evolved in recent decades, can be understood in relation to an emergent neoliberal mode of collective responsibility for migrant welfare. It suggests that in spite of other factors and forces that undermine Irish Catholic Church authority, the marketization of more domains of life in the first decades of the twenty-first century has given new significance to Catholic Social Teaching and pro-migrant church initiatives.

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The Politics of Migration, Church, and State: A Case Study of the Catholic Church in Ireland

Gray

2016

International Migration Review

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“…This process has, however, been stopped in the beginning of the 1990s and for the last decade of the 20 th century Ireland has been the net importer of the labour force. Some authors (Mac Laughlin, 1994 andHazelkorn, 1990) show that for the most part of the 20 th century Ireland remained highly-dependent upon Britain both as a market for its exports and as a host of its "surplus" labour. The population shifts from Ireland to the U.K. were merely a part of a broader general process of urban-rural drift.…”

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Ready to Go? EU Enlargement and Migration Potential: Lessons for the Czech Republic in the Context of Irish Migration Experience

Strielkowski¹,

O’Donoghue²

2006

Prague Economic Papers

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Abstract:EU enlargement is hardly to be seen as the major push factor for migration. There are mainly economic factors that influence the migration decisions. Besides it seems that there is a migration potential, unique for every country, that pre-determines the migration or labour mobility. In our paper we (i) analyze the impact of internal economic factors, such as GDP growth, unemployment and wages on the emigration rate and (ii) compare the migration potential for the country distinguished by the high ratio of outward migrations (represented by Ireland) with those of the post-communist economy as well as the "new" EU member (represented by the Czech Republic). We come to conclusions that economic factors have the decisive role on pre-determining the migrations and that migration potential and the propensity to migrate as a reaction to worsening of the economic conditions at home are highly correlated. These can explain why there was no mass emigration from the EU "new" Member States to the "old" Member States after the recent enlargement, as far as it comes to migration potential needed for inducing such labour moves. The potential emigrants from new EU Member States are simply not ready to go to wealthier Member States in search of better wage and employment opportunities.

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“…Citizenship and Nationality Issues in 21st Century Ireland Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique, XXI-1 | 2016 growth in several of its reports when it stressed the link between "changes in migration flows and relative changes in economic conditions in Ireland", 15 this time though with a rather positive perspective in the context of the Celtic Tiger. Previously known as an Emigrant Nursery, 16 Ireland gradually became an immigration country. In that respect, 1996 appears to have been a turning point as it marked the first year of net in-migration, Ireland being the last country in the EU to display such a trend.…”

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Who is Irish Today? Citizenship and Nationality Issues in 21st Century Ireland

Guillaumond¹

2016

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Ireland: An “Emigrant Nursery” in the World Economy

Cited by 6 publications

References 21 publications

The Politics of Migration, Church, and State: A Case Study of the Catholic Church in Ireland

The Politics of Migration, Church, and State: A Case Study of the Catholic Church in Ireland

Ready to Go? EU Enlargement and Migration Potential: Lessons for the Czech Republic in the Context of Irish Migration Experience

Who is Irish Today? Citizenship and Nationality Issues in 21st Century Ireland

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