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Denying Antiretrovirals To Migrants Hurts Us All
Source: Inter Press Service (Johannesburg)
Original Source Interview with Joanna Vearey, Forced Migration Project, Univ. of Witswatersrand JOHANNESBURG, Jul 15 (IPS) - South Africa has become a destination for people from across the continent and beyond. But in spite of migrants having a legal right to free antiretroviral treatment (ART)…
Resource type: News
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South Africa: Migrants Abused by Officials and Farmers
Source: Human Rights Watch
South Africa: Migrants Abused by Officials and Farmers (Johannesburg, February 28, 2007) South African officials involved in the arrest and deportation of undocumented migrant workers often assault and extort money from them, and commercial farmers employing them routinely violate their basic labor rights, Human Rights…
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Increase in number of migrants repatriated
Source: Irish Times
by CARL O'BRIEN THE GOVERNMENT repatriated more than 500 eastern European migrants to their home countries so far this year under a scheme aimed at assisting destitute immigrants. In the eight months leading up to August a total of 511 migrants were repatriated. The number…
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ICI Says Migrants Left ‘In Limbo’ by Immigration Policy
Source: The Irish Times
Immigration Council of Ireland notes ‘busy year’ for its frontline servicesChief executive of the Immigrant Council of Ireland (ICI) Denise Charlton. The ICI criticised Ireland’s immigration policy and how it leaves migrants ‘living in limbo’. Photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish TimesBy Patsy McGarryFailure to provide a…
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Ireland slow to integrate migrants into schools
Source: Irish Times
AMIE SMYTH, Social Affairs CorrespondentIRELAND IS among the least prepared states to help new immigrants enter the school system and do well in their studies, an international study has claimed.The Migration Policy Index, which compares integration policies in 31 countries, concludes that “boom time funding…
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Migrants used as 'scapegoats', conference told
Source: Irish Times
by ALISON HEALY THE GOVERNMENT has been accused of using migrant workers as "convenient scapegoats" to distract from the State's employment problems. Migrant Rights Centre director Siobhan O'Donoghue said there were hints that the work permit system was to be reviewed and she said this…
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Migrants and the Irish Economy
Source: The Integration Centre
Immigration should be viewed as an opportunity to be embraced rather than a cost to be minimised, according to this report from economist Jim Power and the Integration Centre, an Atlantic grantee. The non-Irish population in Ireland is highly skilled with qualification levels exceeding that…
Resource type: Research Report
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RTÉ.ie Video: Irish welcome does not always extend to migrants
Source: RTE.ie News
RTE.ie news interviewed the Immigrant Council of Ireland's Catherine Cosgrave, Senior Solicitor and Nusha Yonkova, Anti-Trafficking Project Coordinator and others on the launch of MIPEX in Ireland. The Migrant Integration Policy Index (MIPEX) research measures the commitment of governments to integration and monitors its translation…
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Sutherland urges Irish to adapt to needs of migrants
Source: Irish Times
Summary: Irish people will have to adapt their sense of nationality to include migrants if we are to integrate immigrants successfully into society, the UN's special representative on migration, Peter Sutherland, said yesterday. Mr Sutherland was speaking at the publication of a policy document on…
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