The free movement of labour across invisible national borders is a central tenant of the European Union (EU) project. With the United Kingdom (UK) voting to leave the EU in 2016, EU nationals living in the UK are now faced with uncertainty over their right to stay, similarly those aspiring to immigrate to the UK face new barriers to entry (Wandsworth et al, 2016).   Given the dependence of the Northern Ireland economy on the supply...

This study will examine morbidity, mortality, and migration between 1991, 2001, and 2011. Using individual and area level data from the NILS, I plan to compare census derived variables and health outcomes of agricultural workers against other distinct occupations. This study’s target audience will be farmers from different farming sectors and by extension their farming families. This study will analyse sub-groups of agricultural workers, their health circumstances, death rates, and migration trends against other detailed...

The aim of the project is to shed light on how frequently people move home, and especially about the types of people who change address the most and also the least. This question is prompted by our recent research on England and Wales using the ONS Longitudinal Study to examine change of address between one census and the next, 1971-2011, which itself was prompted by observations of sharp declines in migration intensity in the USA...

This study will adopt the ‘life course’ approach as a theoretical and methodological framework to examine how demographically selective flows of internal migration by age, religion, social class, gender and health contributes to the process of segregation and desegregation between 1974 and 2015. Using the key components of the life course (cohorts, aging and time periods) as a framework the study will conduct the following investigations;

The project is concerned with the impact of residential (im)mobility on the later health, labour market and educational outcomes of rural residents in 1991 and 2001. In particular, an answer is sought to the question of whether moves from remote rural areas to urban areas lead to more favourable outcomes in comparison with those who live continuously in rural areas. One level of analysis will be to look at the changing demography of places through...

It is well known that migration sorts people between places according to individual socio-demographic characteristics.  This project aims to add to this evidence base by focussing on the characteristics in 2001 of those who entered, left and moved within the group of SOAs that were eligible for inclusion in the Social Investment Fund (SIF) according to criteria provided by OFMDFM. The analysis will group SOAs by selected social deprivation domains such as health with flows...

Shuttleworth and Green (2010) examined the daily work-related (commuting) expectations of Incapacity Benefit (IB) claimants in NI by means of a DEL-sponsored survey. Lower levels of expected work-related mobility were associated with urban neighbourhood contexts, limited access to private transport, poor educational attainment, and public rented housing. The proposal builds on this work by examining the housing mobility of a similar and closely matched set of NILS respondents to understand the wider dimensions of the...

There is empirical evidence that those who live far from their place of work make residential moves nearer to it as substitute to long-distance commutes. However, there is little known about this process in NI. People may only move house if their commute exceeds a certain threshold and this may vary between urban and rural areas and by dependent on the general, investigating questions about motives for housing moves, the size of housing/labour markets and...

Annual migration flows between local authorities are published as part of estimating the mid-year population. These flows are actually based on movements on the health card registration systems measured by changes of addresses but only the marginal flows are published. The link to the NILS data opens the possibility of estimating the annual cross-flows between areas and by characteristics not measured on health card registration data (such as self-reported health status in the previous Census)...

The current project seeks evidence of a 'retirement transition' affecting the mobility patterns of the 50 to 64-year-old age group within the UK’s Celtic fringe. The retirement transition concept refers to the behavioural changes affecting pre-retirement age groups and assumes that the expectation of retirement acts as a catalyst for change, including a change of residence. Such migration in the UK is commonly associated with peripheral and scenically attractive areas. Accordingly, the project focuses on...