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 [...]
Hidden lives in front of us
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 [...]
AIM’s concerns about new restrictions in Czech Republic
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. [...]
Don Flynn’s views on the GFMD
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, [...]
UNDOCUMENTED AND UNAFRAID
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 [...]
