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Hundreds gathered in Belfast today for a Refugees Welcome demonstration, showing solidarity with refugees following recent ...
Two months on, Clonavon Terrace and its surrounding streets feel like a ghost town. Houses that were torched remain boarded ...
Almost half of those arrested for race hate disorder in Belfast last August had previously been reported to the PSNI for domestic abuse.
Anti-immigration protests across England, Northern Ireland, Spain and Poland have grown more frequent – and in some cases ...
For weeks, there has been a drumbeat of anti-immigrant episodes in Northern Ireland. Ali Watkins, a reporter for The New York Times based in Belfast, describes what she’s seen covering these ...
Riots broke out in Northern Ireland in mid-June following an alleged sexual assault by two Romanian-speaking youths – signaling xenophobia in an area already divided by religion and class ...
Vasundhara Sirnate, an Indian journalist who has lived in NI since 2017, reflects on years of experiencing racism in her adopted community, and explains why recent anti-immigrant violence felt ...
Most of the other areas where anti-immigrant violence spread last week - Larne, Newtownabbey, Portadown and Coleraine - were similar, mostly Protestant towns.
Immigration has historically been low in Northern Ireland, where the years of conflict bred an insular society unused to assimilating outsiders. There are other factors at play too, said Bryan.
Legacy of Past Hangs Over Anti-Immigrant Violence in Northern Ireland By Padraic Halpin BELFAST (Reuters) -Bullets and bombs were a part of life in the Belfast that Raied al-Wazzan moved to from ...
BELFAST (Reuters) -Bullets and bombs were a part of life in the Belfast that Raied al-Wazzan moved to from Iraq in 1990, but he never felt threatened as a member of one of the divided region's tiny ...