Blogs

On April 20th, the Spanish government approved a new set of austerity measures, modifying the conditions of access to health system. Among other aspects, this new regulation denies access to [...]

On 17th April 2012 more than sixty professionals and members of civil and political society who work with undocumented children in Belgium, came together for PICUM and Plate-Forme Mineurs en [...]

By Bahar Shoghi, and Setareh Masoumbeiki.  Setareh and Bahar and Gita are part of a team of independent artists and practitioners based in Tehran, Iran. In the last several years, the team has [...]

By PICUM. On 10 April 2012, the Belgian far-right party Vlaams Belang launched a new website inciting citizens to denounce through on-line application crimes committed by undocumented migrants. [...]

By Karl Kopp, PRO ASYL Director of European Affairs. Refugee children are detained in despicable Greek jails along the Turkish border. Homeless Afghan boys roam the city centre of Athens, Greek [...]

By Jack Cervantes, Vice-president of Migrante NL Den Haag. On 2 January 2012, I spoke at a forum on human rights. Thankfully, I managed to reach the meeting location despite the large amounts of [...]

By Sangeetha Iengar, PICUM Project Assistant. On 23 February 2012 The Children’s House in Leiden saw almost fifty municipal officials come together for PICUM’s joint workshop on the local [...]

By Kadri Soova, Advocacy Officer, PICUM, Brussels. It is difficult to imagine that in Europe today exists a group of persons who are unable to call the police to seek protection and assistance in [...]

By Yasmine Soraya, Indonesian Migrant Workers Union (IMWU NL),  (Sub-editor: Celia Mather). Undocumented migrants in the Netherlands are made up of various groups such as rejected asylum [...]

By Tetyana Zhyla, University of Gothenburg. “I moved to Sweden with one of my friend in 2007. I had another Mongolian friend who was working in Sweden and she persuaded me by saying that there [...]

By Devin Cahill, PICUM Program Officer. Last week a momentous conference took place in Warsaw, Poland which focused on the fundamental rights of undocumented migrants and for once, it was not a [...]

By Barbara Stricker (PICUM Project Assistant), and Lilana Keith (PICUM Project Officer). The week of 3-7 October 2011 saw much needed debate on improving access to basic social rights for [...]

By Anna Simola, PICUM Volunteer,  Former researcher on migration related issues at the University of Tampere, Finland. The recent estimates on the number of undocumented migrants in Finland vary [...]

By Eve Geddie, PICUM Programme Officer. “I told him to stop, but he laughed, ‘What will you do, call the police?” This past year, I have spoken with women across Europe about [...]

By Daniel Izuzquiza, Pueblos Unidos – General Coordinator, Jesuit Migrant Service (SJM-España). In Spain, there are some 700.000 domestic workers. Although there are no clear data on this [...]

By Alan Desmond, PhD Candidate at the Faculty of Law, University College Cork, Ireland. On Friday, 26 August 2011, the President of Poland, Bronislaw Komorowski, signed legislation which will [...]

By Alan Desmond, UCC Law Faculty PhD student at University College Cork, Ireland. Earlier this month Barack Obama delivered a speech on comprehensive reform of the US immigration system in, aptly [...]

By Eve Geddie, PICUM Program Officer (from Flyktingbloggen). What do Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Sweden, have in common? They each have monarchies, low population [...]

By Kadri Soova, PICUM Advocacy Officer (from Flyktingbloggen). In the coming years, the working age population in Europe is faced with an important decline. The demographic urgency mixed with [...]

By Alan Desmond, UCC Law Faculty PhD student at University College Cork, Ireland. Poland’s long-awaited draft migration strategy, Migration Policy of Poland – Current State and Suggested [...]