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English Language Study Unit location – U.0.20 date – 13 September 2007 time – 9:30am-10:30am. emigration, immigration, and migration. introduction – emigration, immigration and migration. defining the debate PIRES – Politics, International Relations and European Studies
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English Language Study Unitlocation – U.0.20date – 13 September 2007 time – 9:30am-10:30am emigration, immigration, and migration
introduction – emigration, immigration and migration • defining the debate • PIRES – Politics, International Relations and European Studies • international students @ lboro • Ireland and … the United Kingdom • Ireland’s evolving population • emigration – the Irish in Italy … and new Italians • immigration – Italians in the UK • migration – internal movements in Italy … and new arrivals • the role of the European Union • conclusions
defining the debate • emigration – the act of leaving one’s home or country for permanent residence elsewhere • immigration – the act of coming into a country of which one if not a native to take up permanent residence • migration – the act of moving from one locality or region to another, often seasonally sources: Robert Allen (ed.), The Penguin English Dictionary 2nd ed. (London: Penguin, 2003); Iain McLean & Alistair McMillan (eds.), The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics 2nd ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003)
PIRES – Politics, International Relations and European Studies new PIRES teaching staff from 2007-08 include: Daniel Conway Rob Dover Ana Juncos Matt McCullock Taku Tamaki source: “Flags of the World”, http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/ [5 September 2007]
international students @ lboro International Day sources: “Country/Region Specific Pages”, International Office (Loughborough University), http://www.lboro.ac.uk/admin/ar/international/index.htm; “International Day” [both 5 September 2007]
the United Kingdom Ireland and … source: “Country Maps - Ireland (Political) 1982”, University of Texas (Perry-Castañeda LibraryMap Collection), http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/europe/ireland_rel_1982.pdf [5 September 2007] source: “Country Maps - United Kingdom (Political) 1987”, University of Texas (Perry-Castañeda LibraryMap Collection), http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/europe/united_kingdom_pol87.pdf [5 September 2007]
Ireland’s evolving population Irish population classified by nationality, 2006 Irish immigration, emigration and net-migration, 1987-2003 source: Martin Ruhs, “Ireland: A Crash Course in Immigration Policy ” http://www.migrationinformation.org/Profiles/display.cfm?ID=260 [5 September 2007] source: “Population classified by religion and nationality 2006”, Central Statistics Office Ireland, http://www.cso.ie/statistics/popnclassbyreligionandnationality2006.htm [5 September 2007]
emigration – the Irish in Italy … and new Italians • “Gli irlandesi in Italia / the Irish in Italy: from James Joyce to Robbie Keane” • “Irish Italian links: an introduction to their 20th century” translatable as: “He was born in Italy. He goes to school with our children. He cheers for Totti. He loves pizza. Why can’t he vote like an Italian? “From immigrant to citizen, with the right to vote in Italy. source: “Diritto di voto agli immigrati”, Democratici di Sinistra, http://wwww.dsonline.it/partito/comunicazione3.asp [5 September 2007]
immigration – Italians in the UK Italian women arriving in the North of England in the 1950s UK – concentrations of people born in Italy source: “Women in migration”, Italian honorary consul (Liverpool), http://www.it-consul.org.uk/italian/Donne.jpg [5 September 2007] source: Dante Alighieri Society (Loughborough), http://www.danteloughborough.co.uk [5 September 2007] source: “Born abroad: an immigration map of Britain: Italy”, BBC, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/uk/05/born_abroad/countries/html/italy.stm [5 September 2007]
migration – internal movements in Italy Italian migrant workers head north in the 1950s centred on Turin & Milan source: “History of Fiat”, Fiat, http://www.fiat.com [5 September 2007] … and new arrivals centred on Rome source: “Key migrant routes from Africa to Europe”, BBC, 14 April 2007 source: “Principal flows of inter-regional migration, 1955-81”, in Paul Ginsborg, A history of contemporary Italy: society and politics, 1943-1988 (London: Penguin 1990), p.438
the role of the European Union four freedoms • goods • persons • services • capital sources: “The EU at a glance”, European Commission, http://europa.eu/abc/index_en.htm [5 September 2007]
conclusions • emigration, immigration and migration have historical resonances and contemporary impacts, and they each have positive and negative connotations • in an increasingly globalised world – where capital, goods and services travel around the planet – the freer movement of people is not only an observable fact, it is a cultural, economic, political, and social necessity