The 2011 Census revealed that people born in N Ireland were nearly twice as likely to have no qualifications as migrants from Central and Eastern European countries. Migrant workers, however, are often employed well below the level of their qualifications and in industries that are different from their area of

When N. Ireland began to receive more incoming migrant workers in the early 2000s it was clear that there was a lack of preparedness for these people and helping them to fit into a new society. Things are better now but there can still be challenges and these are some

People have moved from their home countries for centuries, for all sorts of reasons. Some are drawn to new places by ʻpull ʻ factors, others find it difficult to remain where they are and migrate because of ʻpushʼ factors. These have contributed to the recent inward movement of people to

Migration Terminology Q Who is an immigrant?AThis term has been applied to all people coming into the country to work, but it is now often applied to people who intend to settle and integrate here, as opposed to being a more temporary ‘migrant worker’. It is important not to view

Although we have always been more aware of people leaving, there have always been incomers to Ireland; Anglo-Normans came in the twelfth century, Scots and English in the seventeenth. European Huguenots and Palatines arrived in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Wealthy Jewish people from Germany and Jewish refugees from the