Migration narratives and conspiracies
‘We need to have a conversation about immigration.’Since the November 2023 riot in Dublin, calls for an ‘honest’ national debate about Ireland’s immigration rules and system have been heard - on the airwaves and in front of accommodation centres for asylum seekers and refugees. As part of that continuing debate, people have tried to differentiate between ‘legitimate’ concerns about the movement of people around the globe and what are racist, far-right or xenophobic reactions to people seeking asylum on this island. The conversation has taken place in the context of an unprecedented number of refugees being given international protection by the Irish Government, mostly due to the war in Ukraine but also the result of other conflicts and humanitarian crises in Africa and the Middle East. Simultaneously, far-right movements have fed off the “migrant crisis” in the Mediterranean Sea where each week people try to make dangerous crossings in unsuitable rafts and boats.
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