The Right to Have Rights – Seamus Deane Lectures

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Seamus Deane Annual lectures for Field Day.

The theme of these lectures is “The Right to Have Rights,” specifically regarding Direct Provision and the Mediterranean migrant crisis.

It’s a set of two events.

Galway (14th October) – Bryan McMahon lead author of the McMahon Report on Direct Provision
Derry (20th October) – Conor Kenny, field doctor with Médecins Sans Frontières. He has worked on the Greek-Macedonian border, Lesbos and on the MV Aquarius.

Free admission for asylum seekers, please send an email to info@newhorizonathlone.org if you would like to attend.

Transport details to follow shortly.

More details here. SDlecture2017 Press Release_General-1

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FAQ’s

We are a front line refugee support group mainly working on the Lissywollen Direct Provision site in Athlone. Our focus is on providing information and help to the 300 (on average) residents living there.

We also work on the Temple Direct Provision site in Horseleap, Moate.

Everyone in the DP sites in Athlone and Temple is what is described as a ‘Convention’ refugee. People who have arrived in Ireland under a United Nations resettlement program are known as ‘Programme’ refugees.

Convention refugees are people who have made their own way to Ireland and have applied for recognition of refugee status when they arrive.

Various official and unofficial routes and methods are used to travel to Ireland. These change continually, depending on weather conditions and enforcement levels at crossings.

On arrival people are normally housed for a few weeks in Baleskin, near Dublin airport. They are then dispersed to various direct provision centres around the country.

People can get protection if they meet the conditions set out in The United Nations Convention on Protection of Refugees.

See Definition of a Refugee

Seamus Deane Annual lectures for Field Day.

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