Emigration at a time of Austerity

Emigre Conference and Report Launch 

Venue: CACSSS Seminar Room, Ground Floor, O’Rahilly Building, UCC  

Friday, 27th September 2013 

Conference Programme

Morning Session 

Session Title: Ireland’s Migration Experience since 1945

• Keynote: Prof. Mary Hickman (St Mary’s University College, London)
• Paper 1: Irish Emigration from the late 1940s to the early 1960s (Prof. Mary Daly, UCD)
• Paper 2: The 'new wave' of Irish emigration in the 1980s (Prof. Bronwen Walter, Anglia Ruskin University)
• Paper 3: 'Lost generations?' Taking the longer view on Northern Ireland migration (Dr. Johanne Devlin Trew, University of Ulster)

Afternoon Session 

Session Title: Current European Emigration Compared

• Paper 1:Emigration governance in the EU Dr Agnieszka Weinar (European University Institute, Florence)
• Paper 2: Nuove mobilità(new mobility): Italian emigration, State discourses and policies in the 2000s/2010s, Dr. Guido Tintori (Leiden University/Collegio Carlo Alberto, Turin)
• Paper 3: The mutually reinforcing relation between international migration of highly-educated labour force and economic crisis: The case of Greece Professor Lois Labrianidis (University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki)
• Paper 4: Perspectives on Current Migratory Flows and Policies in Portugal Dr Joana Azevedo (CIES, Lisbon)
• Paper 5: Out-migration of Spanish immigrants Dr Gemma Larramona (University of Zaragoza)

EMIGRE Report

Presentations by Irial Glynn, Piaras Mac Einri, Tomas Kelly