Blogs

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 [...]

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 [...]