By Juliana Moya, Portuguese Association for Victim Support (APAV). A change of legislation grants more protection to undocumented migrants in Portugal such as a residence permit for victims of [...]
By Michele LeVoy (PICUM Director), and Kadri Soova (PICUM Advocacy Officer). 1999 saw the historic conflation of the security agenda with migration that would shape all the future EU policy [...]
By Nacho Sánchez, Málaga Acoge. On 31 December last year, a radio programme gathered several individuals and groups to spend an untypical New Year’s Eve together and to start the New Year [...]
By Pablo Rojas Coppari, Strategic Advocacy Officer MRCI Ireland. Recent news reported on efforts of Spanish and Moroccan authorities to reinforce border security and raised the question of [...]
By Navina Khanna, Joann Lo and Cathi Tactaquin. What do food banks, food chain workers, and Dreamers all have in common? The answer, when it comes to immigration, is just about everything. Today, [...]
Side Event prior to the United Nations Day of General Discussion (DGD) on “The rights of all children in the context of international migration” The Platform for International Cooperation on [...]
By Kadri Soova, Advocacy Officer, PICUM, Brussels. This blog will look at how lack of authorised migration status contributes to increased vulnerability of migrants in situations of human [...]
Par Marta Grosso, PICUM Project Officer. Sans accès à la santé, à l’éducation, à un logement décent, sans recours à la justice, comment pensons-nous pouvoir créer des citoyens forts et actifs ? [...]
By PICUM. With a recently published position paper, the Italian Association for Juridical Studies (ASGI), expresses its concerns over the transposition of the Employers’ Sanctions Directive in [...]
By Yasmine Soraya, Indonesian Migrant Workers Union (Netherlands). (Editor: Cilia Mather) Sixty seven years is a quite old for human being. At this age, a person perhaps is already retired and [...]
By Nicola Flamigni, PICUM Communications Officer. Migrants, activists, lawyers, designers, web developers, journalists, photographers, engineers and musicians…. all together to attend [...]
By Eve Geddie, PICUM Program Officer. On Thursday 21st June, the launch of a seminal report on undocumented women was cohosted by members of the European Parliament from across the political [...]
By Eva Valentová, Association for Integration and Migration in Czech Republic. In its new campaign, the Association for Integration and Migration urges employers to respect the rights of domestic [...]
Miltos Pavlou is a sociologist with legal and interdisciplinary formation, author of numerous publications and public presentations on migrants and minorities, racism and discrimination in Europe [...]
By Nicola Flamigni, Communications officer, PICUM, Brussels. Everywhere is the same. When elections approach, the moderate party tries to gain some votes by echoing some of the slogans of the [...]
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 [...]
