Irish Migration: Characteristics, Causes and Consequences

Barrett, Alan

doi:10.2139/ssrn.219882

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“…Emigration has been a feature of Irish life since the Famine, and even before that, so it was to be expected that the impact of emigration would be evident among TILDA participants. Barrett (2005) shows how net outward migration was at its highest level in the 1950s in a data series dating back to the 1870s. This outflow would have been occurring when the older TILDA respondents were young adults and so would have been part of the socio-demographic circumstances in which they lived and made decisions.…”

Section: Emigration From Irelandmentioning

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“…High rates of net outflow also arose in the 1980s and this would have been the Ireland in which the younger TILDA respondents found themselves. Barrett andMosca (2013a, 2013b) examined the impacts of emigration on the TILDA respondents. According to Barrett and Mosca (2013a), 24 percent of men and 21 percent of women in the TILDA sample have lived abroad for at least six months.…”

Section: Emigration From Irelandmentioning

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A New Look at the Recession and Ireland’s Older People: The Emigration of Adult Children and the Mental Health of their Parents

Mosca¹,

Barrett²

2014

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Barrett and O'Sullivan (2014) showed that the well-being of Ireland's older people had not suffered over the course of the recent recession. While this may be the case on average, recent demographic research suggests that this aggregate view may have missed an important channel through which a recession can impact on older adults. Specifically, Antman (2010, 2011 and 2013) has shown how parents can suffer declines in mental health as a result of the emigration of their children. Given the high rates of emigration from Ireland as a result of the recession, it is important to explore if this effect has occurred. Using data from the first two waves of The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA), we explore whether the mental health of parents who saw children emigrate between 2009 and 2013 declined relative to parents whose children stayed in Ireland.Looking across three measures of mental health -depressive symptoms, self-rated mental health and indicators of loneliness -we find general and robust evidence of mental health declines for the mothers of emigrants. There is less evidence of fathers being affected with one exception -older fathers appear to experience a greater sense of loneliness as a result of the emigration of their children. We do not find evidence of the effect differing with the characteristics of the children, such as whether they are male or female or whether they lived with their parents immediately prior to emigration.

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Section: Emigration From Irelandmentioning

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Section: Emigration From Irelandmentioning

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A New Look at the Recession and Ireland’s Older People: The Emigration of Adult Children and the Mental Health of their Parents

Mosca¹,

Barrett²

2014

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Freedom of Movement: the Common Travel Area between Ireland and Britain and the Treaty of Amsterdam

Meehan¹

2001

Migration and Mobility

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From ‘flood’ to ‘trickle’: Irish migration to Britain 1987–2006

Walter

2008

Irish Geography

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A dramatic change in the size and direction of emigration from Ireland has taken place over the past 20 years. The most striking feature is the sharp decline in movement to Britain from the Republic of Ireland, a traditional supplier of labour for well over 200 years. By contrast there has been a small increase in emigration from Northern Ireland, an important element of which is higher education students from Protestant backgrounds, who may be permanent migrants. Detailed statistics available from the Central Statistics Office of the Republic of Ireland show that proportionately more women have left as gross numbers have declined. This reflects the persistence of social, rather than predominantly economic, causes of emigration, also evident in the range of socially excluded people for whom Britain represents a 'safety valve'. Two groups now characterise the Irish population in Britain; the ageing 1950s cohort and their children and grandchildren, the large second and third generations.

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Irish Migration: Characteristics, Causes and Consequences

Cited by 9 publications

References 8 publications

A New Look at the Recession and Ireland’s Older People: The Emigration of Adult Children and the Mental Health of their Parents

A New Look at the Recession and Ireland’s Older People: The Emigration of Adult Children and the Mental Health of their Parents

Freedom of Movement: the Common Travel Area between Ireland and Britain and the Treaty of Amsterdam

From ‘flood’ to ‘trickle’: Irish migration to Britain 1987–2006

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