Immigration Into Ireland

Towards asylum Ireland of the 1990s Ireland became a booming country. The Celtic Tiger as it was known continued from 1995 to 2007. From 2000 on tens of thousands of non federal employees and asylum seekers came to Ireland.

The Irish authorities also rallied on regulations pertaining to labour permits because they expected to get workers from the enlarged European Union since 10 new nations joined the EU on 1st May 2004.

Ireland has relatively few migrants cause of its geographical position on the Western edge of Europe. The simple fact it's an island also cuts the number of immigrants. Illegal immigrants include people who come into the nation via Northern Ireland from the UK and a few researchers may not depart Ireland if their work permits expire and in addition, there are students who work more than the legal limit of 20 hours each week. The main threat against illegal immigrants is deportation. Ireland has repatriation agreements with Poland, Nigeria, Romania and Bulgaria and has delivered a lot of people back to their country of origin when they'd exhausted the legal process of applying to stay here.

The reason that Irish companies wish to bring in non federal workers is they have a skills and labour shortage. It is also accurate to say that Irish people didn't wish to work in fast food restaurants, even as cleaners and in other lower skilled jobs. There was also a shortage of people with specific skills like nurses and doctors and those are employed in private training and in hospitals.

There is a difficulty in the fact that non nationals are used in lower skill occupations. I recently heard of a Polish radiographer working as a care assistant in a nursing home. The National Qualifications Authority has established the National Framework of Qualifications to try and establish where degrees and diplomas from overseas academic institutions fit into Irish standards. Even the Economic Social Research Institute has done a great deal of work on researchers and they've produced reports on how well non national workers have incorporated into the work force and whether or not they're getting the same promotional opportunities as Irish employees. Migrant workers are in danger of being exploited by unscrupulous companies.

Many people today say that as we're now in recession we shouldn't be worried about migrant workers, we ought to focus on the Irish people who have lost their jobs and are being forced to emigrate. I think that many of the people that are emigrating are professionals who want to broaden their expertise and make a better life for themselves in Canada or Australia. We also have a moral duty to people who reside and work in this nation to provide aid, be conscious of discrimination and the possibility of poverty and social exclusion.