What’s the best way to tell area residents about plans for a new asylum shelter nearby?
The government should tell communities directly about plans for new asylum shelters, some activists and politicians say.
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Fires in Crown Paints warehouses haven’t triggered the release of asbestos, fire brigade says
Five of the seven buildings have asbestos roofs, says an estate agent’s brochure.
Tusla has downgraded supports for migrant children who arrive alone, says social care worker
“They have created a new category of young people in care”, affecting their entitlement to a social worker and to support once they turn 18 years old, they said.
In the Docklands, there’s a burnt-out corner where asylum seekers once slept
It is unclear whether the ashes are the aftermath of an arson attack, or an unrelated fire now being used online to rally and intimidate.
Applying for visas at Belgium’s embassy in Dublin, some immigrants say they face mistreatment
“It’s like they see you as inferior as a human being,” says Arpita Chakraborty. She isn’t alone in reporting a sense of belittlement after a visa appointment there.
Exclusion from CE schemes yet another barrier to people working while awaiting asylum decisions
“They all have the desire for work, but there’s barrier after barrier after barrier.”
In Santry, a Bulgarian dance teacher preserves disappearing Balkan folk dances
Ten years into it, Slavi Begov says he’s looking for more Balkan folk-dance buffs as pupils.
People seeking asylum who say they are children are being housed alongside adults
But a statistics blackout means it’s unclear how many.
At the Egyptian embassy in Dublin, Sudanese immigrants plead for a chance to visit their loved ones in Egypt
Arwa Ahmed, a paediatric registrar at Temple Street Children’s Hospital, says she just wants to go visit her mum, who has heart disease.
Two months after an alleged assault on an asylum seeker, IPAS has left the accuser and accused to share shelter
“I saw him today at the canteen, at breakfast time.”
When arguing Algeria is a “safe” country, did Department of Justice officials downplay human rights violations?
When the government designates a country as officially “safe”, it’s harder for someone from there to get asylum in Ireland.
No evidence welfare rates affect where people seeking asylum end up, researchers say
Reducing payments won’t stop people from coming, said researcher Tim S. Müller. “But would make the conditions worse for asylum seekers.”