‘Treated like a servant, threatened with deportation’: Ukrainian woman’s host family experience

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  1. I’m sorry she had an awful experience. The article mentions that she and her daughter arrived a few days before St Patrick’s Day, so at least she wasn’t there too long.

  2. The racialisation of International Protection (aka Refugee status) combined with the two track system that was introduced as a reaction to Russia’s war in Ukraine is absolutely disgusting and will only ever lead to greater exploitation. This situtation being a prime example.

  3. This really boils my piss now, that Irish woman was trying to blackmail the Ukrainians into staying there to keep her house clean.

    What a disgusting piece of work. I hope she gets a knock on her door from the Gardai.

  4. Awful unfortunate situation. Hopefully someone on here can step up and take them in.

    Anyone interested in helping out?

  5. If Ireland tries to take in such an unsustainable number of refugees when we already grossly exploit our own through the housing/rental market, then this is barely even a taste of how bad it’s going to get.

    If we’re going to be taking such large numbers of these folks in, the government need to be forced to implement a Job Guarantee prioritizing the construction of homes – which every refugee is guaranteed work in, and where _they get first dibs_ on the built houses because they are building them – then they get permanent citizenship for helping resolve our housing crisis, with the Job Guarantee ensuring they (and everyone else) are always able to earn a dignified living.

  6. Would there be an expectation that they would help out in the house? Like of course not as a servant, but like Saturday morning clean.

  7. This was all going to happen, I’m sorry.

    We can’t even house 10,000 Irish people and we are expected to take in 200,000 Ukrainian refugees.

    Take them in but for holy christ sake will someone fix the housing in this shithole.

  8. This is why whole hotels need to be block booked and refugees placed in them

    They have laundry services, ensuite bedrooms, conference and reception rooms that could double up as classrooms, creches.

    Refugees could be raped, groomed and exploited in homes.

    That is why they are better all together in refugee centers, hotels etc.

    Refugees can help each other learn English, translate, keep each other company etc.

    They can come and go as please.

    They won’t always feel awkward as a guest in someone’s home.

  9. One of my neighbours is like this. A total entitled wagon. Apparently she gives the staff at her husband’s business dogs abuse and treats the Spanish au pairs like slaves. Heard she was blacklisted by at least one agency.

    I’d say she rubbed her hands together in glee when she heard Putin invaded and has kitted out the store room in her husband’s supermarket with a few bunk beds.

  10. Yeah i basically expected this to happen. Theres a load of people here who saw the ukranian crisis and started thinking of the savings in childcare or cleaning immediately

  11. I have experienced a similar thing. This is what it’s like when you are a licensee living with your landlord. I was emotionally abused by so many landlords. I was once told that if I didn’t do as they say, they’d throw my clothes and other possessions out onto the road, at night, in the rain and then would kick me out. And I was paying shocking rent prices.

  12. People like this really need to be named and shamed, I can image this woman being a real Mrs Bucket type, probably a busy body involved in various shit in the local community, let everyone see what a disgusting cunt she is

  13. People who will take advantage of others in this way are no better than human traffickers to who would have people enslaved imo. Pure fucking scum. Throw the fucking book at them. Let them enjoy a jail cell for threatening someone with no alternatives to find shelter for themselves and their families. Blood boiling news.

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