Report flags migrant living conditions

MIGRANTS often end up sharing poor-quality, privately-rented housing and suffer theft and harassment from locals, according to a report published today.

The study, entitled Making a Home in Ireland, looks at the experiences of Chinese, Lithuanian, Indian and Nigerian migrants living in the Dublin suburb of Blanchardstown.

Published today by Focus Ireland and the Immigrant Council, it shows the poorest living conditions were found in the privately-rented sector, where the quality of accommodation was rated as average or bad.