JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE - EU SCIENCE - Applications for asylum on the rise in Ireland

The number of first time applications for asylum has been rising in Ireland since 2016, according to the recently published JRC Atlas of Migration. There were 4,740 applications in 2019, more than double compared to 2016, when there were 2,235. More than half of the decisions on asylum applications taken by Irish authorities were positive in 2019, while three years before almost 8 out of 10 were rejected.

date: 11/02/2021

The research suggests that the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the government responses to it could reshape migratory movements, shift migration routes and alter the composition of migrant populations worldwide.

The Atlas is published by the JRC Knowledge Centre for Migration and Demography. It is an online reference tool guiding policy-makers, practitioners and the general public through the complexities of migration and demography. It brings together indicators related to migration, asylum, integration, demography, and development from several international data sources.