Migration is a big issue at the moment in Europe, not least in the UK
where public fears about migration (stoked by a racist press and a Home
Secretary and now PM who, let’s say, seems to have a visceral unreasoned
belief that the presence of foreigners in some way harms Britain) lie
behind the Brexit vote.
There are other reasons for being interested in migration, of course.
For instance, I’ve been wondering a bit about gender differentials in the age profile
of migration and re-migration. So I started looking for data, initially
on the Irish CSO site, where I found annual year-of-age
population estimates.
Continue reading Comparative perspective on migration from Eurostat population data