Ireland
: From Rapid Immigration to
Recession
By Martin Ruhs, Centre on Migration, Policy and Society
(COMPAS)
Oxford
University
Updated by Emma Quinn, Economic and Social Research
Institute,
Dublin
September 2009
Ireland
's economic boom during the 1990s brought unprecedented levels of
prosperity and helped transform it into a "country of net
immigration" by the early 2000s. For the first time in its history,
Ireland
experienced a significant inflow of migrants — both workers and asylum seekers
— from outside the European Union.
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