The Odyssey of Unaccompanied Minors in Europe
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 [...]
Undocumented Domestic Workers Find a Strong Ally in the Church
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 [...]
Local Authorities Workshop on Strategies for the Reception of Undocumented Families
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 [...]
Undocumented victims of crime: no recourse to protection and justice
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 [...]
Indonesian (undocumented) migrant workers in the Netherlands
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 [...]
Strategies of undocumented immigrants pursuing work and their working conditions: the case of Gothenburg, Sweden.
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 [...]
EU Agency holds conference on fundamental rights of undocumented migrants
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 [...]
An important week for undocumented children’s rights
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 [...]
Finland’s first clinic for undocumented migrants was received with both enthusiasm and opposition
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 [...]
The Denial of Justice for Undocumented Migrant Women in Europe
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 [...]
Undocumented domestic workers in Spain
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 [...]
Poland’s 2012 Regularisation Programme
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 [...]
Obama’s El Paso Speech on Comprehensive Immigration Reform: Allow those who can benefit the US economy to realise the American dream. by Alan Desmond
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 [...]
Who is afraid of International Accountability on Migrants Rights?
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 [...]
Recent EU labour migration policy – a cause for concern.
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 [...]
Researcher Alan Desmond on Regularisation of Irregular Immigrants in Poland: Third Time Lucky?
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 [...]
Rebecca Smith, NELP Coordinator of the Immigrant Worker Justice Project, on Cesar Chavez day
On March 31st, in the United States we celebrated Cesar Chavez day Chavez was an inspirational hero, leader and teacher who organized the most vulnerable immigrant workers in the country, and [...]
Researcher Alan Desmond on newly released “Immigrants and the Right to Stay” by Joseph Carens
By Alan Desmond, UCC Law Faculty PhD student at University College Cork, Ireland. Joseph Carens’s Immigrants and the Right to Stay (MIT Press, 2010) is based on the author’s essay The Case for [...]
Dr Sylvie Da Lomba on health care charges for undocumented migrants in France
By Dr Sylvie Da Lomba, University of Strathclyde, Law School, Glasgow, UK. HEALTH CARE CHARGES FOR UNDOCUMENTED MIGRANTS: HOW FRANCE IS MAKING LIFE MORE DIFFICULT FOR UNDOCUMENTED MIGRANTS AT ALL [...]
The Reception and Care of Unaccompanied Minors
By PICUM Member I-Red Unaccompanied minors are a group of undocumented migrants who are subject to multiple violations of rights in the EU as in many cases and reception realities – Greece [...]
