Immigrants, Diasporas and Faith-Based Welfare

In Ireland, as elsewhere, many of the most vulnerable migrants – refugees, those with irregular status or people who have been trafficked – disproportionately depend on forms of informal community welfare. Much of this has been instigated by faith-based communities and organisations – centred on churches, mosques, and synagogues that have either accompanied or responded to waves of migration in ways that have been broadly similar across time and space.