Disadvantages Of Migration In Ireland

The purpose of this essay is to examine and discuss how cumulative disadvantage constitutes itself in Europe, with particular focus on the migrant student in both Ireland and Europe. Firstly, I will consider migration in Ireland and Europe over the past two decades. Next, I will consider the Education structure in Ireland and Europe. Finally, I will looking at equality in general for migrant students in Ireland and the European countries. Glen H. Elder's ideas about Cumulative disadvantage is that disadvantaged individuals experience early in their lives and that they can accumulate over time. That is likely to determine how individuals or groups fare over time (Pohlig, 2011) . It is, of course, always possible that some groups face disadvantage

The last three decades have seen greater mobility in Europe, demonstrated, for example with the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 as well as EU enlargement in 2004 (CSO, 2011). Compared to Europe Ireland has seen a large growth in the immigration of groups of migrants from diverse parts of the world in a very short space of time (Loyal, 2011) . In particular, Ireland has witnessed large numbers from Poland, the UK and Africa (CSO, 2014). Although there are still many immigrants arriving into Ireland, the rate seems to have slowed somewhat, as seen in the 2006 Census carried out by the CSO. The number of migrants was 93,200, whereas in 2011 it fell to, 33,674 (CSO, 2011). What distinguishes Ireland from most other European countries is that over a period of approximately ten years from 1998 – 2007 the number of immigrants doubled from 7.8% to 15.7% of the Irish population (Devine, 2013). High levels of immigration is not always welcomed by the citizens of European countries, with only 19% of citizens of European countries seeing it as a good thing for their country (Loyal, 2011). The arriving immigrants are often well educated but do not always have a grasp on the social culture or a network sufficient to gain employment in their qualified field which leaves them in lower paid or unskilled employment . To this end, unfortunately, a strong predictor of a child's success or failure at school is the economic and occupational status of the child’s parents and, as a result the seeds of disadvantage are sown early in Children (UNICEF,