Policing Ireland, Policing Colonies: The Irish Constabulary ‘Model’

This chapter considers the responses given by respondents to two surveys which enquired about the migration experience from Ireland to Australia. Those surveyed emigrated between 1969 and 2013. This study's sample has demonstrated differences in attitudes towards the permanency of the move to Australia, in habits of socialisation with their own ethnocultural community and in their intention to return to Ireland compared with earlier studies. That its findings are more in line with the 2013 Emigre Report indicates that the characteristics of the trend of migration from Ireland since 2008 differ markedly from the post-1980 period and the more recent years before the collapse of the Irish economy. World systems and other external forces play their part in migration flows, the agency of the individual migrant is important in determining how much emotion plays a role in this human traffic.