Women in immigration-related detention suffer racist abuse from inmates

A SMALL number of foreign women held in immigration-related detention have complained about the conditions in the Dóchas Centre, including in some cases, racist abuse from other inmates.

The findings are based on interviews with nine women detained in the Dóchas Centre — seven from Nigeria, one from Brazil and one from Zimbabwe — and contained in a report published recently entitled Becoming Vulnerable in Detention.

The chapter on Ireland was carried out by the Jesuit Refugee Service.