'After the Dublin riots I am afraid to leave my home'

I pay taxes here, pay my bills, and do everything by the book, just like any other individual. All I want is to work and contribute to society, writes Imasha Costa

Rioters clashing with gardaí in Dublin on Thursday. Immigrants, all of us, were blamed for the Dublin knife attack, which gave some people an excuse to riot and intimidate. The violence stems from anti-immigrant rhetoric. Picture Colin Keegan, Collins Dublin

It's the fear. 

Fear to leave my house, fear to walk down the street, to go out for a cup of coffee, to be outside. If Thursday's riots did anything, it was put that fear in me.