EmigrantAdvice.ie
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Emigrant Advice
Description
Emigrant Advice was established in 1987. However it was not a new service, but rather an updated response by the Dublin Diocese to the increased rate of emigration in the 1980s. Its predecessor was the Catholic Social Welfare Bureau established in 1942, which offered advice and assistance to emigrants of the 1940s, 50s, 60s, and 70s.
The Catholic Social Welfare Bureau was disbanded in 1982 but the emigrant section continued as the Emigrant Welfare Bureau until 1987 when it moved to Cathedral Street and became Emigrant Advice.
Emigrant Advice is one of the 14 programmes of Crosscare, the Dublin Diocese Social Care Agency. Since 1987, Emigrant Advice has been working with migrants in vulnerable situations. Originally, Emigrant Advice worked with intending emigrants. In recent years, clients of Emigrant Advice include intending emigrants, emigrants, immigrants, returnees and intending returnees. Importantly, the common factor for all of Emigrant Advice’s clients is that they are migrants in vulnerable situations.
