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Title: Ireland: A crash course in immigrant integration


1
Ireland A crash course in immigrant integration
  • By Abel Ugba
  • University of East London, London

2
From Emigrations to in-migrations
  • Nation of emigrants until the 1990s
  • Immigrants/a minority ethnic group present before
    dramatic increases in in-migrations
  • Greater/diversified in-flows from mid-1990s.
    Reasons are manifold
  • Irelands rising international profile
  • The Celtic Tiger
  • Citizenship/immigration policies
  • Social/political unrests in parts of the world

3
Categories of immigrants
  • Workers (work permit/visa/authorisation)
  • particular nationalities dominate particular
    professions
  • Asylum seekers/Geneva Conv. Refugees
  • Rapid increases from mid-1990s to early 2000s
  • Students - burgeoning English Lang. Market
  • Post January-2004 Influx from the former
    communist bloc

4
Crash courses in immigration policies
  • Adhoc measures meant to discourage
    long-term/large scale presence of immigrants
  • Asylum seekers/refugees
  • Migrant workers
  • Students
  • Migrants from new EU countries

5
Crash courses in citizenship and integration
policies
  • Residence permits and immigrant parents of Irish
    children
  • The Citizen Referendum and the IBC fiasco
  • Amnesty and respite for hounded immigrants
  • Racism, anti-racism and equality measures
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