Abstract
This paper examines the social characteristics and destinations of just under 1200 recent emigrants from selected urban and rural areas in the west and south-west of Ireland. It calls for a community-centred, regional approach to counteract the aspatial element in national accounts and cost-benefit analyses of recent emigration. It suggests that the incidence of emigration may vary regionally and socially, and that young adults in the west of Ireland may now regard this country and Great Britain as an integrated labour market for skilled and unskilled labour. Media coverage and recent literature suggest that contemporary emigration is qualitatively different from earlier outflows. The findings of this survey suggest that the qualitative aspects of recent emigration can be exaggerated and that it may be premature to talk of the modernisation of Irish emigration.
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