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We’re only paying lip service to asylum seekers’ right to work
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| Title: | We’re only paying lip service to asylum seekers’ right to work | Authors: | Thornton, Liam | Permanent link: | http://hdl.handle.net/10197/9618 | Date: | 25-Jan-2018 | Online since: | 2019-02-27T14:48:31Z | Abstract: | For more than two decades Irish governments have refused to permit asylum seekers to look for or enter employment. Two excuses are trotted out: it would lead to abuse of the Common Travel Area with the UK; and allowing them to work would prompt a surge in the number of people seeking asylum in the Republic. | Type of material: | Contribution to Newspaper/Magazine | Publisher: | Irish Times | Keywords: | Direct provision; Asylum seekers; Ireland; Right to work | Other versions: | https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/we-re-only-paying-lip-service-to-asylum-seekers-right-to-work-1.3367349 | Language: | en | Status of Item: | Not peer reviewed |
| Appears in Collections: | Law Research Collection |
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