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My Syrian Refugee Grandparents’ Lost America
By Christopher Oechsli Almost 115 years ago, Abraham and Camelia George left the small Syrian village of Mattan Arnouk. They sailed past the Statue of Liberty and landed on Ellis Island. They were refugees. Syrian refugees. They passed through a Manhattan neighborhood known as Little…
Author: New York Daily News
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Lives in Limbo: ‘It Affects You As a Parent and a Man’
The direct provision system for asylum seekers has a high human and social cost, and adapting to normal life afterwards is a slow process. VIDEO: Heidar has recently gained refugee status and has left the direct provision system. He speaks about the difficulties he has…
Author: The Irish Times
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‘Two Countries, No Home’
By Verity Oswin Earlier this year, I met a group of young people in Mexico City who call themselves “the other Dreamers,” undocumented young people taken to the United States as children who returned to their birth countries. Some had been deported, while others had…
Author: The New York Times
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ECRE Launches Asylum Information Database (AIDA) Website
The European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE) has launched the Asylum Information Database (AIDA) website, mapping asylum procedures, reception conditions and detention in 14 EU countries. The website is part of a project funded by EPIM and carried out in partnership with the Hungarian Helsinki Committee,…
Author: European Programme for Integration and Migration (EPIM)
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Immigrants Play Vital Economic Role, Even in Slump
By Donal O’Donovan Inward migration of workers remains crucial for Ireland’s economy regardless of the current downturn, according to new research. The research by economist Jim Power for the Integration Centre, a charity supported by Atlantic Philanthropies and the One Foundation, is the first major…
Author: Independent.ie
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Dublin’s Joint Policing Committee Opens Its Door to Migrants
Zephyrin Ngaliema Mukoko, the first migrant to be given a reserved place on the joint policing committee. (Image: Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland) A representative of the migrant community in Ireland, Zéphyrin Ngaliema Mukoko, today joined Dublin’s Joint Policing Committee, a move that is part of a…
Author: TheJournal.ie
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Asylum Children Go Hungry, Says Report
By Eoin Burke-Kennedy Many children in the State’s asylum process are living in extreme poverty in overcrowded accommodation with inadequate food, according to a report published yesterday. The Irish Refugee Council report paints a grim picture of the State’s system for accommodating asylum-seekers, known as…
Author: Irish Times
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Petition Shows Public Support for the Regularisation of Undocumented in Ireland
The Migrant Rights Centre Ireland (MRCI) and supporters today presented the Minister for Justice’s Special Advisor with over 4000 signatures in support of the regularisation of undocumented migrants in Ireland. “These signatures show support from the Irish Public to find a solution for an estimated…
Author: Migrant Rights Centre Ireland
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30,000 Undocumented Migrants Live in Fear of Deportation
By Aideen Sheehan Friday March 16 2012 ABOUT 30,000 men, women and children living in Ireland are undocumented — meaning they live in constant fear of deportation, the Migrant Rights Centre of Ireland has warned. As the Government lobbies in Washington this St Patrick’s week for the…
Author: Independent.ie
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Three in Five TDs Met Racist Views - Survey
By Deaglán de Bréadún, Political Correspondent Three in every five of the TDs responding to a survey carried out by a professional polling company said they had encountered racist sentiments while canvassing in last year’s general election. More than a third of the TDs surveyed…
Author: Irish Times