“The treatment of migrant workers is a vexed one which poses considerable difficulties to the regulation of the labour market…
Reception Conditions for Asylum Seekers in Ireland: The Need for a Legislative Basis
Some 12 years after the introduction of the direct provision system for asylum seekers in Ireland, there is an urgent…
UNHCR #do1thing: Subsidiary Protection
In an earlier post, I outlined the core meaning of the terms refugee and asylum seeker. In addition to refugee protection…
UNHCR #do1thing: Sexuality & Refugee Status
The definition of refugee includes those who are members of a particular social group. Section 1 of the Refugee Act 1996 defines…
UNHCR #do1thing: Decisions of the Refugee Appeals Tribunal
The Refugee Appeals Tribunal (RAT) do not make their decisions publically available. In 2006, two barristers resigned resigned amid allegations of secrecy of the RAT…
UNHCR #do1thing: Refugees & Asylum Seekers
Who is a refugee? A refugee is somebody who is outside her country citizenship, or the country where she formerly…
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