The Employment Research Centre (ERC) in association with the Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS) held a one day symposium on New European mobilities: education, migration and employment on Monday 16 September 2013
The Ambassador of the Republic of Poland, H.E. Mr Marcin Nawrot, launched a new book 'New Mobilities in Europe: Polish Migration to Ireland post 2004' following the symposium
About the symposium/More information
Between 2004 and 2008, nearly half-a-million European nationals arrived in Ireland from the new member states (NMS) of the EU. Many of these were young Poles joining the Irish labour market at a time when economic opportunities were limited ‘at home’. Importantly though, a history of mobility is an historic part of the Polish story, with an established transnational record of migration. The story of movement for work overseas, to pursue lifestyle opportunity and to enhance professional goals is a familiar part of the Irish story, including amongst the Irish graduate population. The mobility evident amongst high-skilled Polish nationals in the 2000s and an Irish graduate cohort in 2008-2013, reveals an opportunity to capture movement within the broader context of intra-EU and transnational mobility. The Learning from Poland project examined the implications of Polish migration to Ireland for contemporary Irish emigration and the lessons for wider European and transnational mobility today
The symposium will address questions about this new mobility context discussing new forms of mobility including lifestyle migration; education and the relationship with employability and mobility, the need for portable social protections and the impact on national welfare systems. It will feature findings from the Learning from Poland project and international speakers to contextualise Irish and Polish experiences of mobility and ultimately evaluate national and European policy implications of the new mobilities.
Date: Monday 16th September 2013
Venue: Trinity College Dublin
Hosted By: The Employment Research Centre ERC in association with the Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS)
Contact: iiis@tcd.ie