Nearly 1,000 Irish immigrating to the UK each month
by Patricia R - December 23, 2010
United Kingdom, 23rd December: Around 1,000 Irish are moving to the UK every month in order to find jobs there and the numbers are likely to increase in the next year.
The Irish are not just moving to the UK, they are also immigrating to Canada and Australia in increasingly high numbers.
As per the official figures for the years 2000-2009, the number of people hailing from the Republic of Ireland and immigrating to Canada have increased three fold. Similarly, since the year 2007, the official figures of Irish moving to Australia on temporary Australian visas to find jobs in the nation have also increased by a whopping 80 percent.
And the latest data released by the UK Department of Work and Pensions, a total of 5,630 Irish made registrations for working in the UK in the first half of the year 2010.
Presently, every month, around 1,000 Irish are immigrating to the UK to look for jobs there and the figures are likely to increase even further in the times to come, especially in the wake of ongoing economic crisis in the Republic of Ireland.
In the year 2009, a total of 11,050 Irish had move to the UK, the official figures based on the total insurance numbers given to the Irish immigrants in the nation and data made available by Irish Independent reveal.
And this is an increase of around 37 percent in the number of Irish seeking UK immigration since the year 2002 when the number of Irish immigrated to the UK was 8,090 annually.
Its not for the first time that a large number of Irish are exploring options of living and working overseas in order to escape from the poor conditions way back home in the wake of severe downturn in Ireland. Long time back in the 1840s, the Potato famine had compelled around 1 million Irish to nations like the US and the UK.
The global economic crisis that engulfed in 2007 has resulted in a big increase in the number of Irish seeking immigration to other nations. The number has increased from around 15,000 prior to recession to around 30,000 after the onset of recession in the year 2007, the figures from Dublin’s Central Statistics Office maintain.
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