asylumseekers
The Irish government has said it is planning to enact legislation by the end of May that would allow it to resume sending asylum seekers who arrive over the border with Northern Ireland back to the United Kingdom. Justice Minister Helen McEntee said the emergency legislation would allow for faster processing of migrants. “This has never been a panacea when we talk about returns, the most effective way that we can have an immigration system that's firm but fair is a fast processing system and what this means is that people's applications are turned around much more quickly,” she said. Ireland’s...
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Most refugees who arrived in Germany thanks to Angela Merkel's "Open Door" policy have now found work, according to a recent study by the Institute for Employment Research (IAB). For the cohort who arrived in 2015, the employment rate in 2022 was 64%, compared with 77% for the wider German population. Some 90% of employees in this group were subject to social security contributions, claimed IAB, and the median gross hourly wage for 2015 arrivals was €13.70. This is above the low-wage threshold of €12.50, despite the fact that the mean age of refugees is much lower than the national average. "D...
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Ireland is looking to implement emergency legislation to enable the return of asylum seekers to the UK, as Taoiseach Simon Harris seeks to address the increasing influx of arrivals through Northern Ireland. This comes amid concerns that Rishi Sunak's deterrence strategy, known as the Rwanda plan, is rerouting asylum seekers towards Ireland. 80 percent of asylum seekers from Northern Irish borderHarris has urged Justice Minister Helen McEntee to bring forward proposals to the cabinet next week, highlighting the need to address the potential impact of Sunak's deterrence measures on Ireland's asy...
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A coalition of European digital rights groups say that the European Union’s sweeping new Migration and Asylum Pact will "usher in a deadly new era of digital surveillance". The Protect Not Surveil coalition, which includes groups like the Border Violence Project, Privacy International, and Access Now, said in a statement that the pact "represents the further embedding of surveillance technologies in the EU". "It therefore represents a further erosion of fundamental rights, and the normalisation of digital surveillance at, and within, borders, justified by an approach to migration policy based ...
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"All member states have to implement it and apply it," Ylva Johansson, the Commissioner who spearheaded the sweeping reform, told Euronews on Thursday. "If not, the Commission will of course act and use – if necessary – infringement (procedures)," she added. "But I must say that I'm pretty convinced that member states will implement the Pact now quite quickly." The New Pact is a set of five inter-connected pieces of legislation aimed at establishing common, predictable rules to manage the reception and relocation of asylum seekers. This, the thinking goes, will turn the page on a decade of go-...
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Hemyar Saad knew no-one in Hong Kong – nor did he speak English or Cantonese – when his family fled unrest in the Middle East and took him to the city in 2014. “The first priority for me was to be safe,” said Saad, now 25, who has worked as a business analyst. “The second thing… I wanted to resume my life. I wanted to adapt to a new society.” Saad is among the handful of successful applicants who have had their claims for “non-refoulement” – the right not to be deported to a home country because of the threat of persecution – substantiated by authorities. He has recently relocated to Canada bu...
Hong Kong Free Press
Last weekend in Dublin, a distressing scene unfolded as numerous asylum seekers were obliged to sleep outside the government's International Protection Office in tents. They had no access to basic necessities – no electricity, no running water, no sanitation. The result could be described as a localised humanitarian disaster. According to Jed, an asylum seeker from Jordan, the recent conditions were deplorable. He described a lack of essential services, including toilets and showers, leaving people without proper hygiene facilities for weeks, enduring harsh weather conditions. Yet as we conduc...
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We know what it’s like to have to leave your home against your will and at short notice. To travel to a new country and try to rebuild your life. And we know that the UK Government’s cruel "cash for humans" deal with Rwanda won’t stop people from taking dangerous journeys to seek safety in the UK. We’re part of a group of people with lived experience of the UK immigration and asylum system — some of us are torture survivors, some of us refugees, and some of us are stuck in the backlog still trying to find safety. But we all had a life, family, role, and respect in our homelands, and we can tel...
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Last month, a report documented vicious punishment beatings of people held in Greek refugee camps and detention centres. Most who spoke to the Border Violence Monitoring Network (BVMN) reported having been beaten indiscriminately. Others said they were beaten for daring to complain about inhumane conditions in Greece’s EU-funded detention camps. Respondents also reported being shocked with electric weapons and subjected to racist abuse. Such violence should make headlines across the continent. Instead, we have normalised it. The week the report emerged, the European Court of Human Rights censu...
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In the Italian city of Trieste, up to 400 people shelter each day in a crumbling, abandoned building next to the train station. This is not out of choice. With an average wait of 70 days before asylum seekers can access formal reception facilities, they have nowhere else to go. And while the International Rescue Committee (IRC) and other NGOs work tirelessly to provide food, water, information and legal advice, it’s simply not enough to match the soaring level of needs. It’s clear that EU member states like Italy need to urgently invest in their reception systems, ensuring these are part of a ...
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