Immigration: Fitting Bras

Fellow Graduates Dept: On Sept. 28, she will take the bus to the airport and fly to Vancouver, a work-study visa in hand and a number of job prospects in Canadian labs. Her boyfriend, a cabinetmaker who hasn’t had work in two years, will join her in December. Half a dozen of her friends and classmates are already there, according to Globe And Mail. After almost 20 years as Europe’s strongest economy, during which hundreds of thousands of Polish, British and North American immigrants flocked to Dublin for work, the Irish are once again a nation of emigrants. Moving abroad, a response to the economic calamities of the past 170 years, has once again become the way out of an impossible situation at home, and is creating a new Irish diaspora and one day a week fitting bras on plus-sized ladies is considered better-than-average work these days for an Irishwoman with an advanced degree and work experience; most of her fellow graduates can’t even find that much. The rest of the week, Ms. Cross, 23, waits for the dole cheque and reads up on the history and culture of British Columbia. “When my sister graduated five years ago, she went straight into a good job and didn’t give a thought to leaving,” she says, “but for those of us trying to work nowadays, the only option is to work in a shop, collect dole or get on the plane.” As reported in the news.
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