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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Life without residence permit is hard, dangerous and depressive. That´s what we realised as we met people without papers in seven EU-countries. We traveled to Spain, Greece, The UK, The [...]
As of 1 January 2011, an extensive amendment to the Czech Aliens Law, significantly tightening up the conditions for residence of foreigners in the Czech Republic, entered into force. [...]
Sponsored by the United Nations, the Global Forum on Migration and Development has been holding annual meetings for the last four years. After its last session, in Mexico in November last year, [...]
By Eve Geddie, Program Officer, PICUM, Brussels. Life through the eyes and voices of irregular migrants in Europe UNDOCUMENTED migrants reside in every single country of the European Union. They [...]
