Opinion: Migrants are forced to do the worst work without access to rights
Youth Against Racism and Inequality (YARI) activist writes that immigrants and people of colour are leading the force for change internationally.
By Haritha Olaganathan
Wednesday 7 Apr 2021, 7:01 PM
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Haritha Olaganathan
Youth Against Racism and Inequality (YARI)
A WORLD SLOWED-DOWN has exposed the deep-rooted inequalities in the Irish state, and we must grapple with the fact that the ‘land of a thousand welcomes’ is one that consciously ostracises people of colour, immigrants and Travellers in the world of work.
Under the current system, far too many of the employees deemed ‘essential’ enough to put their health on the wheel everyday are not considered worthy of lives free from precarity and financial stress.