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Cover image for Dublin Inquirer print edition #100
“This month’s cover is inspired by Dublin’s ‘Fortress Grand Canal’, perhaps the most striking example of hostile architecture, of designing against humanity, in the city in recent years.”
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.
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.”
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.”
In Churchtown, a couple invite a former asylum seeker into their home
“We were like, we have a space at the moment in the house.”
A former asylum seeker teaches newcomers how to navigate parenthood under pressure
In a new country, with different norms, while coping with the extreme stresses of life in the asylum process.
For parents raising children in direct provision, the fear of the state taking them away is ever-present
Especially for lone parents, who can face having inadequately trained shelter staff call in Tusla if they leave their children alone even briefly.
Shuttled out of the city ahead of St Patrick’s Day, some homeless men seeking asylum reclaim their lives on Mount Street
On Saturday evening, a group of guys put together a modest meal to break their Ramadan fast: yogurts, fruit and bottled water on a Tesco bag on the ground.