Archive explores experiences of returned immigrants

NEW research on Ireland’s returned migrants shows they broadly welcome the growing multiculturalism of Irish society.

Their stories have now been captured in a unique oral archive.

The research showed that those who left Ireland during the 1970s and 1980s but who have returned in recent years empathise with the new arrivals in Ireland, having been new arrivals themselves elsewhere, said project researcher, Dr Caitríona Ní Laoire, from University College Cork’s Geography Department.