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Migrant Minds Matter campaign launched

Nov 24, 2020 | Campaigns, Direct Provision, Featured, RELEASES, USI News

A new campaign aimed at encouraging students to take action against the significant barriers preventing asylum seekers from taking up or completing third-level education has been launched by the Union of Students in Ireland (USI), the Movement of Asylum Seekers in...

Students’ deportation order and hunger strike ‘explicitly demonstrate why the Direct Provision system must be ended’

Jul 30, 2020 | Campaigns, Direct Provision, Equality, Featured, RELEASES, USI News

The Union of Students in Ireland expresses its support and solidarity to two Athlone Institute of Technology students living in Direct Provision who are facing deportation in 35 days and reiterates its calls for an urgent end to the Direct Provision system. Second...

Vulnerable students should be housed in empty accommodation

Apr 17, 2020 | Accommodation, Direct Provision, Featured, RELEASES, USI News

Vacant Purpose-Built Student Accommodation should be used to ease stress on vulnerable students who are not in appropriate accommodation during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Union of Students in Ireland said today. The USI says the closure of campuses and the stay-home...
Students To Take Action Against Avoca and Aramark Over Direct Provision Ties This Christmas

Students To Take Action Against Avoca and Aramark Over Direct Provision Ties This Christmas

Dec 19, 2017 | Direct Provision, Featured, RELEASES

The Union of Students in Ireland (USI) today announced it will take action against Avoca, a clothing manufacturing, retail and food business in Ireland, because of ties to direct provision centres. The action will take place on Saturday the 23rd of December at 1pm on...
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