This attracted a wave of incomers to a country where, traditionally, mass emigration had been the norm.

BBC: Ireland profile

It seems most unlikely that a majority voters would want to keep Mr Mugabe as their president, given the country's economic collapse, plummeting life expectancy and mass emigration.

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Restrictionist immigration laws passed in the 1920s made the U.S. miss the last four decades of mass European emigration.

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