Briefing paper for the Economic and Social Research Institute and the Shared Island Unit at the Department of the Taoiseach on child and family poverty and the asylum system in NI
Decades of successive governments’ ‘hostile environment’ policies eroded the supports and options available to families seeking international protection, denying them the ability to support themselves and making them wholly dependent on a hostile system while they waited for a decision on their claim.
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Decades of successive governments’ ‘hostile environment’ policies eroded the supports and options available to families seeking international protection, denying them the ability to support themselves and making them wholly dependent on a hostile system while they waited for a decision on their claim.