Latvian migrant workers' experience of discrimination in the Republic of Ireland
2012
Parker, P., University of Limerick (Ireland). Dept. of Sociology;Shannon Development, Limerick (Ireland). National Technological Park
In 2009 and 2010, through a nation-wide research study conducted at the University of Limerick, over 250 Latvians residing in the Republic of Ireland were asked about their experience of discrimination in employment. They were asked three specific Likert-scale questions and one open-ended question dealing with discrimination through their first-hand experience; perceptions in general about discrimination against Eastern European and Baltic migrant workers; and about the Irish employers. Then the results were compared against the responses from Lithuanian, Polish, and Slovak respondents. Statistical analyses indicate that the Latvian respondents did not express any more or less compelling cases of discrimination vis-à-vis the other three nationalities groups studied. Chi-square analyses of the three questions on the experience of discrimination were inclusive. This paper, however, offers some explanations as to why the stories of discrimination and incidents of negative experience from the Latvian migrant workers in the Republic of Ireland were not present and proposes for a further longitudinal study in 2015.
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