The experiences of forced migrants in the US and Ireland shows the need for more humane and sustainable refugee and asylum policies

As forced migrants arrive in their destination countries their struggles do not necessarily end. Serena Clark, Kevin Marshall and Katriona O’Sullivan give an account of interviews conducted with migrants in the US and Ireland to uncover the problems they face in trying to integrate in their new society. The continuing difficulties that migrants face in these countries and elsewhere suggest that the current management of refugees and asylum-seekers in the United States and Ireland is in need of reform.