A Prison by Any Other Name - The fight against direct provision

MarkH
Sat, 08 Nov 2014 08:41:31 +0000
Asylum, Direct provision, Migration / racism, National, Magazine, Analysis, Paul McAndrew

Here in Ireland over the past eighteen months asylum seekers have been organising protests against the conditions they are compelled to live in, including blockading the ‘hostels’ (effectively for-profit open prisons) where they are forced to live in appalling conditions, which some have been made to endure for over a decade.

For the past several years, Anti-Deportation Ireland, a political campaign run by both asylum seekers themselves and by their supporters has been pushing for three demands:

1/ An immediate end to deportations.

2/The immediate abolition of direct provision

3/The rights to work and to access 3rd-level education