An estimated 20,000 undocumented migrants in Ireland will be able to apply for a new regularization scheme from January 31. But is the application process itself too complicated? Fiona Hurley, policy and communications manager for the migrant and refugee rights association Nasc, spoke with InfoMigrants.
The Irish government has approved a plan set to regularize up to 17,000 undocumented migrants already in Ireland. The scheme begins in January with a six-month window in which applicants can apply.
An Indian asylum seeker who is fighting for his right to stay in Ireland has been hospitalized on day nine of his hunger strike. Nadim Hussain is pleading to be granted permission to remain in Ireland; he says he will be killed if he returns to India.
A new study from the University of Maynooth in Ireland has found that migrant fishermen who work in the industry are often subject to unsafe and unstable conditions. What's more, they can be at risk of exploitation and even human trafficking due to their unclear immigration status.
Ireland has offered to take in 10 asylum seekers from Italy. It is the first country to respond to Italy’s demand that the EU share responsibility for migrants.
A court in Vietnam sentenced four people to several years in prison over their involvement in the deaths of 39 migrants, whose bodies were found in the back of a truck outside London last October.
Despite the encroaching winter weather and the news of the dangers of attempting to reach the UK in refrigerated containers, it appears that some migrants are still willing to risk everything in order to attempt to migrate from the French coast to the UK. Some are setting sail in small boats across the Channel and others are hoping that less frequented routes via Ireland might provide a route to Britain.
16 migrants were found in a sealed trailer on a ferry traveling from France to Ireland on Thursday. The migrants were reportedly all in good health.
If you are an asylum seeker or refugee in Ireland then you will most likely be accommodated in a Direct Provision center. Here’s what you need to know about the service.
The town of Oughterard in the west of Ireland has won a battle to stop a center being built for asylum seekers. The campaign against the direct provision center had been joined by anti-immigrant activists as well as those demanding a more humane system for refugees.
Ireland is being urged to take in 36 refugee children from Greece as soon as possible. The call follows criticism of the government for failing to meet its refugee resettlement target.
More than two-thirds of the 182 migrants disembarked in Italy from the Ocean Viking rescue ship are to be relocated to other EU countries. The Italian Catholic Church has confirmed it will take responsibility for the largest number.