EUROPEAN MIGRATION NETWORK. POLICY ANALYSIS REPORT ON ASYLUM AND MIGRATION: IRELAND, REFERENCE YEAR 2003 TO MID-2004

Quinn, Emma and Hughes, Gerard (2005) EUROPEAN MIGRATION NETWORK. POLICY ANALYSIS REPORT ON ASYLUM AND MIGRATION: IRELAND, REFERENCE YEAR 2003 TO MID-2004. UNSPECIFIED.

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Abstract

In the last ten years or so Ireland has changed from being a country of net emigration to being a country of net immigration. In the year to the end of April 1994 about 35,000 people left Ireland and about 30,000 people entered so that there was a net loss of population of nearly 5,000 people. In the year to the end of April 2004 about 18,000 people left and just over 50,000 people entered resulting in a net gain in population of almost 32,000 people. Over the same period the number of people who have sought asylum in Ireland under the 1951 Geneva Convention relating to the status of refugees has increased from 91 in 1993 to 7,900 in 2003.

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