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Introduction

Immigration is the other side of the coin. Irish people have always emigrated; they have been refugees from Famine, labourers in the worst-paid jobs in other societies, "illegal" immigrants without papers or rights. Now that Ireland has become comparatively wealthy it is beginning attract a broad range of immigrants here, just as a broad range of Irish people went elsewhere down the years. Those with the greatest difficulties are undoubtedly the refugees and asylum applicants, fleeing from war, famine, persecution or discrimination. These pages will provide some basic information.

What is a refugee?

By Tanya Ward, Department of Geography

The dynamics of displacement

By Tanya Ward, Department of Geography

Women as a persecuted group

By Tanya Ward, Department of Geography

The mode of flight

By Tanya Ward, Department of Geography


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