Immigration Figure Breaks Records
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They will go home
Doubtful. I can’t think of any other country where that happened en masse. Of course, some of them will move somewhere better, but once a person puts down roots somewhere, they tend not to move unless they have to. Immigration isn’t just for Christmas, it’s for life.
It’s foolish to argue from experience, so I won’t give any proscriptive stuff. But in my own entirely unscientific experience those of us who left for the UK in the late 80s early 90s, about seventy percent came back, thirty percent stayed. With the US it was more like 80 per cent stayed. However I’d suspect that the language issue would probably be a significant obstacle to people staying on permanently - not that people won’t learn it, but rather that they might feel it a hinderence to putting down roots. And then as Poland and other Eastern European states improve economically perhaps that will have a pull effect.
But to be honest I’ve no real idea. Perhaps we could expect ten to fifteen percent to stay?
We are in an age of ryanair flight. Not that difficult to go somewhere else. Also immegration into Ireland tends to be young single people coming for a 18 months or less. True people with roots will stay . But I am not sure if they would be in the majority
Shows the need for controls on Romania and Bulgaria.
Why would that be, Brian? Have the emigrants we’ve got from the rest of Eastern Europe really been that horrible and nasty?