THE CHALLENGES OF THE ASYLUM SEEKERS IN THE PROCESS TO OBTAIN THE REFUGEE STATUS IN IRELAND

Abstract

The principal Aims and Objectives of the Dissertation are to find answer to main questions about the challenges of the Asylum in the process to obtain the refugee status in Ireland, this question are focus to find why the people decided to came to Ireland instead of another country and the advantages of disadvantages, to know the challenges in the validation of their application, and focus in the conditions of accommodation provided by the Government in one particular Centre and for the last to know the strengths and weaknesses of the Irish System in relation with the asylum seekers, this information look to be the utility for the authorities and entities interested in the asylum seekers. The method used was qualitative with the existing information related with the asylum seeker process and quantitative through the interview with a sample of asylum seekers in one direct provision centre with a methodology of critical realism focus on explaining what I saw and experienced, with an approach inductive in where the information was judged by observations. The results showed that asylum seekers decided to came to Ireland for the facility of the language but the Irish system is very slow in give resolution for their cases with people spending years with limited conditions of employability and to re start a normal life in Ireland. The principal conclusions founded were that the language is the main reason for the asylum seekers to decide to came to Ireland and the opportunity to came without visa follow, and even with that reason may people had problems in the presentation of their case for the language barrier and the long time of the interviews, and the last conclusion is that the time of waiting for a resolution is excessive.