Immigration, the Celtic Tiger and the economic crisis

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ID8094605
AuthorsBryan Fanning (0000-0002-8844-0259, Social Justice Ireland, corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume24
Issue1
Pages9-20
Publication date2015-11-17
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueIrish Studies Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0967-0882 • E-ISSN: 1469-9303
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/09670882.2015.1112995
OpenAlexW2225907299
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited7

This article addresses the puzzle of why Ireland has proved so open to immigration. It compares responses to immigrants in the Republic of Ireland during the Celtic Tiger era and during the post-2008 economic crisis and finds no evidence of a political backlash during the latter period even though opinion polls suggest that opposition to immigration had increased and other evidence suggested that there had been an increase in racist incidents within Irish society. Nor did the resumption of large-scale emigration trigger political hostility to immigrants. The outcome of the 2004 Referendum on Citizenship, which removed a constitutional right to Irish citizenship to the Irish-born children of immigrants, suggested that that nationalism still matters hugely and a latent tendency towards ethnic chauvinism amongst the host population. Yet, a decade after the 2004 Referendum it looked as if the old mono-ethnic sense conception of the Irish nation had been disrupted, at least a little bit

Celtic Tiger · Citizenship · Demographic economics · Development economics · Economics · Emigration · Immigration · Irish · Nationalism · Opposition (politics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Population · Referendum · Sociology · Xenophobia · Demography · Irish and British Studies · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Refugees, and Integration

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