Spatial Justice and the Irish Crisis: Migration - Mary Gilmartin

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Royal Irish Academy Conference: Spatial Justice and the Irish Crisis 23 April, 2013, Academy House The on-going crisis and associated responses to it (political, governance, popular etc.) provides an entry point for a wide-ranging exploration of spatial justice as a theoretical construct and a departure point for empirical analysis. Discourses of justice, equality and fairness remain central to a range of interconnected debates as Ireland seeks to recover from the interrelated collapses of the banking system and property markets and the knock on effects through the rest of society and the economy. Scale is an important dimension in framing and constructing popular discourses concerning issues of justice, e.g. the role of EU institutions in shaping Ireland’s treatment of banking debt or the impact of national budgetary measures on particular places. The focus of this conference is on understanding these spatially connected processes, how they are functioning at different scales, their impact on particular or specific places and spaces, as they give rise to new or evolving social and economic geographies.

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Immigration and spatial justice g p jin contemporary Ireland

DrMary GilmartinDepartment of Geography

National University of Ireland Maynooth

Spatial Justice and the Irish crisis, Royal Irish Academy, 23 June 2013         

Introducing spatial justice

Immigration policy and d l i j tiprocedural injustice

P l ti   f I l d b   ti litPopulation of Ireland by nationality

Nationality 2006 (%) 2011 (%)Irish 88.8 86.8Irish 88.8 86.8UK 2.7 2.5Rest of EU 3.9 6.1Other European 0.6 0.4USA 0.3 0.2Af i 8African 0.8 0.9Asian 1.1 1.4Other 1 7 1 7Other 1.7 1.7

Source: Gilmartin 2013

Immigrants and distributional j tijustice

Li i g i  I l dLiving in Ireland

Nationality 2006 2011UK 112 259 112 548UK 112,259 112,548Polish 63,276 122,585Lithuanian 24,628 36,683

Source: Gilmartin 2013

H i  t  b   ti lit  Housing tenure by nationality, 2011

Owner occupied with loan or mortgage 

Owner occupied without loan or mortgage 

I i h  Rented from a Local Authority 

Rented from a Voluntary Body 

Irish nationals

Rented from a private landlord

Non‐Irish Occupied free of rent 

Not stated 

Non Irish nationals

Source: Census 2011, Profile 4, Table CD443  

W ki g i  I l dWorking in Ireland

Source: Gilmartin 2013

Occupation by sector and nationality, 2011

Other Overall Irish UK

Other EU‐15 EU‐10 RoW

Wholesale and retail trade 14.6 14.3 15.6 9.3 22.7 10.5

Health and social work 11.0 11.2 12.3 5.5 4.1 19.3

Manufacturing industries 10.2 9.9 10.0 12.7 16.0 6.4

Education 9.2 10.1 8.9 7.7 1.7 4.7

Public administration and d f 6 6defence 6.3 7.2 3.4 1.2 0.4 1.6

Accommodation and food service 5.8 4.2 6.0 10.9 18.1 12.9

Financial and insurance activities 5.1 5.5 5.3 8.5 1.8 2.3

Professional, scientific and t h i l 6 8technical 5.1 5.5 6.0 5.8 2.0 2.9

Construction 4.8 5.1 4.6 1.3 4.5 1.9

Occupation by sector and nationality, 2011

Other Overall Irish UK

Other EU‐15 EU‐10 RoW

Wholesale and retail trade 14.6 14.3 15.6 9.3 22.7 10.5

Health and social work 11.0 11.2 12.3 5.5 4.1 19.3

Manufacturing industries 10.2 9.9 10.0 12.7 16.0 6.4

Education 9.2 10.1 8.9 7.7 1.7 4.7

Public administration and d f 6 6defence 6.3 7.2 3.4 1.2 0.4 1.6Accommodation and food service 5.8 4.2 6.0 10.9 18.1 12.9

Financial and insurance activities 5.1 5.5 5.3 8.5 1.8 2.3

Professional, scientific and technical 5.1 5.5 6.0 5.8 2.0 2.9

Construction 4.8 5.1 4.6 1.3 4.5 1.9

Occupation by sector and nationality, 2011

Other Overall Irish UK

Other EU‐15 EU‐10 RoW

Wholesale and retail trade 14.6 14.3 15.6 9.3 22.7 10.5

Health and social work 11.0 11.2 12.3 5.5 4.1 19.3

Manufacturing industries 10.2 9.9 10.0 12.7 16.0 6.4

Education 9.2 10.1 8.9 7.7 1.7 4.7

Public administration and d f 6 3 7 2 3 4 1 2 0 4 1 6defence 6.3 7.2 3.4 1.2 0.4 1.6

Accommodation and food service 5.8 4.2 6.0 10.9 18.1 12.9

Financial and insurance activities 5.1 5.5 5.3 8.5 1.8 2.3

Professional, scientific and t h i l 6 8technical 5.1 5.5 6.0 5.8 2.0 2.9

Construction 4.8 5.1 4.6 1.3 4.5 1.9

Occupation by sector and nationality, 2011

Other Overall Irish UK

Other EU‐15 EU‐10 RoW

Wholesale and retail trade 14.6 14.3 15.6 9.3 22.7 10.5

Health and social work 11.0 11.2 12.3 5.5 4.1 19.3

Manufacturing industries 10.2 9.9 10.0 12.7 16.0 6.4

Education 9.2 10.1 8.9 7.7 1.7 4.7

Public administration and d f 6 3 7 2 3 4 1 2 0 4 1 6defence 6.3 7.2 3.4 1.2 0.4 1.6

Accommodation and food service 5.8 4.2 6.0 10.9 18.1 12.9

Financial and insurance activities 5.1 5.5 5.3 8.5 1.8 2.3

Professional, scientific and t h i l 6 8technical 5.1 5.5 6.0 5.8 2.0 2.9

Construction 4.8 5.1 4.6 1.3 4.5 1.9

Conclusion

Contact: mary.gilmartin@nuim.ie

F th  i f tiFurther information

Central Statistics Office (CSO) (2012) Census 2011. Available online at http://www.cso.ie/en/census/census2011reports/

Gilmartin M (2012) The changing face of Irish migration, 2000‐2012. NIRSA Working Paper No. 69. Available from: http://www.nuim.ie/nirsa/research/working_papers.shtml 

Gilmartin M (2013) Changing Ireland, 2000‐2012: Immigration, emigration and inequality. Forthcoming in Irish Geography

Maps prepared by Justin Gleeson, All‐Island Research Observatory (AIRO), National University of Ireland Maynooth. http://www.airo.ie/