A step forward towards ending immigration detention in Spain
This blog post was written by Nacho Hernández Moreno, lawyer at the International Affairs Department at Fundación Cepaim, Spain. The world is currently facing one of the most dramatic and fast [...]
Amplifying the voices of undocumented people in Europe
This blog post was written by PICUM’s Communications Trainee Bettina Guigui. As a migrant working for a migrants’ rights organisation in Brussels, I am very aware of the need to include the [...]
That time when British and Irish youth rights campaigners met in Dublin
At PICUM, we’re happy to facilitate bilateral exchanges between our members so they can learn from each other’s work to advance the rights of undocumented people locally. In this blog [...]
Momentum builds towards ending detention of children
By Pablo Gómez-Escolar Arias, PICUM Advocacy Trainee. Pour lire le texte en français: cliquez ici The immigration detention of children is an issue that is increasingly in the public [...]
“Firewall”: A tool for safeguarding fundamental rights of undocumented migrants
By Camille Van Durme, PICUM Intern. 19 December 2017 In December, several news outlets reported that a pregnant woman who went to the police in the UK to report having been raped was brought to a [...]
Immigration Detention and Deportation: Legal Practitioners and Civil Society Jointly Address Strategic Litigation
By Kadri Soova, PICUM Advocacy Officer and Alyna Smith, PICUM Advocacy Officer Over the past years, political pressure to detain and deport more migrants has led to more case law that challenges [...]
ANNUAL GENERAL ASSEMBLY 2017
BUILDING ON COLLECTIVE STRENGTH TO OVERCOME CHALLENGES By Elisabeth Schmidt-Hieber, PICUM Communications Officer. Para leer la versión en español, por favor haga clic AQUI. Pour lire le blog en [...]
The Employers Sanctions Directive – a law to address exploitation of undocumented workers?
By Jan Knockaert, Director of OR.C.A. – Organisation for Undocumented Workers and a Board member of PICUM-the Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants. Adapted from [...]
Will more and longer detention solve the ‘migration crisis’?
By Jerome Phelps, Director of Detention Action. This is a shortened version of the original blog published by University of Oxford, Faculty of Law, Border Criminologies Blog. Earlier this month, [...]
Dealbreaker: EU migration policy causes more harm and chaos one year after EU-Turkey deal
By Michele LeVoy, PICUM Director. This was first published by Open Democracy. As we mark the first anniversary of the EU-Turkey deal, the EU’s migration policies are more contradictory than ever. [...]
Risks of statelessness for children of undocumented parents in Europe
By Lilana Keith, Advocacy Officer on Children’s Rights and Labour Rights at PICUM. A version of this article was first published in the Institute on Statelessness and [...]
HEAR OUR VOICES’ – UNDOCUMENTED CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE FROM ACROSS EUROPE SHARE THEIR STORIES
Ahead of Universal Children’s Day on 20 November 2016, PICUM launches a collection of testimonies*, which highlights the challenges faced by children and young people considered irregular or [...]
PICUM ANNUAL GENERAL ASSEMBLY 2016: HOPE AND COMMITMENT IN POLARISED DEBATE
By Elisabeth Schmidt-Hieber, PICUM Communications Officer. A fear-mongering rhetoric linking undocumented migrants to criminal activities and security threats, is fueling policies aiming to deter [...]
