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White SA woman requests asylum in Ireland
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Dianne Louise Jefferson, 22, 'fears for her life' if deported to South Africa
By Louise Hogan, The Independent.
Tuesday September 22 2009 -- A white South African has claimed her life may be at risk due to racial discrimination if she is deported from Ireland.
- If granted by the court, she would become the 47th white South African granted refugee-status in Ireland since 1994.
Dublin High Court bid:
Dianne Louise Jefferson (22), who works as a product builder with Boston Scientific in Galway, yesterday launched a legal bid at Dublin's High Court to remain in the (European-Union) State.
Judge Elizabeth Dunne granted an interim injunction preventing the state immigration services from arresting, detaining or transferring Ms Jefferson, who lives in Doughiska, County Galway.
"I say and believe that as a white South African there is a real possibility of criminal racial discrimination against me and I fear for my well-being and ultimately my life if I am returned," the court heard directly from Ms Jefferson's affidavit.
- She left South Africa on June 1, 2002, following the death of her grandmother and moved to Ireland to be with her father.
During her seven years living in Ireland, writes Hogan, Ms Jefferson completed her Junior and Leaving Certificate, studied at college, married and took up a job as a product builder with Boston Scientific in 2006.
- On September 16 last, Ms Jefferson was notified by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service that her application for a resident's card was refused. She was informed her permission would expire on September 20 and after that date she would be an illegal resident. She says she was advised to "go home".
The court heard she has instructed her solicitor to apply for Irish citizenship on the basis of her marriage.
- In 2005, at the age of 18 she married Kevin Curran.The court heard Mr Curran was forced to move to the Netherlands in search of a full-time job but regularly returns to spend time with his wife.
- Louise Hogan : http://www.independent.ie/national-news/woman-fears-for-her-life-if-deported--to-s-africa-1892639.html
More than 600 official white SA refugees worldwide:
- Ireland forms part of the European-Union community: due to their close cultural affinity with the continent, many hundreds of thousands of ‘white’ South Africans have already settled legally in greater-Europe since 1994 – and increasingly, asylum-seekers are also amongst them, mainly due to the dramatic increase in armed attacks targetting this small. very visible minority group in SA.
- This fact came to light recently when Brandon Huntley, a white SA asylum-seeker, was granted formal refuge in Canada, stating in his application that his life would be in danger if he were forced to return. His application created a storm of outrage in ANC-government circles. However, Huntley wasn’t the first one: Canada has also granted asylum to a further 32 South Africans thus far since 1994.
- And there are more than 600 South Africans living as refugees across the world. Some reasons for asylum are however also medical: several Afrikaans families have literally fled from South Africa’s abundant sunlight: they were granted permanent refuge because they suffer from familial porphyria – an potentially deadly, extreme sensitivity to sunlight which occurs often in Afrikaner families. These porphyria-sufferers were allowed to resettle in a small northern Canadian town which has the lowest number recorded sunlight hours per year and reportedly they now are thriving and contributing to the economy as new settlers.
There are 170 South Africans with legal refugee status in Germany, 111 in the USA, 46 in Ireland, 33 in Canada, 24 in the UK, 18 in France and 15 in Australia. (From our information, it is also believed that some ten applications are also pending in New Zealand.) http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=180&art_id=vn20090905081708384C542654
Other asylum seekers: http://censorbugbear-reports.blogspot.com/2009/08/white-man-gets-refugee-status-in-canada.html
Job link Ms Jefferson: Boston Scientific: Ballybrit Business Park http://www.bostonscientific.com/SectionData.bsci/,,/navRelId/1004.1010/seo.serve
Ballybrit,
Galway , Ireland TEL: 353-91-756300
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