My Rights as a Migrant Refugee in Ireland

This factsheet is an extract from the publication Know Your Rights: The Rights of Children and Young People published by the Children’s Rights Alliance. It is reproduced here with their kind permission. Know Your Rights is a public information project designed to inform everyone, in plain language, of the rights and entitlements children have in Ireland and where to go when they are not respected.

If you or your parents have come to Ireland from another country, you will be known as migrants. Migrant children or children of migrants have different rights and entitlements depending on their own or their parent’s citizenship or immigration status. Ireland has rules about who can come here to live, work, study, visit as a tourist, seek asylum or start a business. These are known as immigration rules.

If you were born in Ireland but your parents are not Irish citizens or have no legal right to reside/live in Ireland, different immigration rules may apply to you.

Know Your Rights: My Rights as a Migrant Refugee

• How to register your immigration status as a young person in Ireland 
• Who can get Irish citizenship?
• Your right to education and healthcare as a young migrant in Ireland
• What are my rights in Direct Provision in Ireland?
• What is International Protection in Ireland?
• Processing International Protection applications for young people in Ireland