Over the past decade of advocacy work for the rights of undocumented migrants, the Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants (PICUM) has recorded how immigration control has [...]
By Leila Marzo. After the boat tragedies off the shores of Lampedusa and Malta made international headlines, the European Union came under high pressure to rethink its immigration policies. [...]
By Eve Geddie, PICUM Programmes Director. An in depth-discussion about the Victims’ Directive The EU Directive establishing minimum standards on the support and protection of victims of crime [...]
By Maria Giovanna Manieri, PICUM Programme Officer The first meeting of the PICUM’s Working Group on Legal Strategies was held in Brussels on 12 December 2013. The meeting brought together legal [...]
By Elisabeth Schmidt-Hieber, PICUM Communications Officer As Christmas approaches, PICUM has received many seasonal greetings underlining the large number of activities and campaigns taking place [...]
By Eve Geddie, Programmes Director at PICUM. The debate on migration to the EU has been very much focused on death at sea, mainly in the Mediterranean, as Europe deliberates how to control [...]
By Nicola Delvino, Advocacy and Communications Intern at PICUM. PICUM hosted its third thematic working group on undocumented children and families on 13 November 2013 in Brussels. PICUM used the [...]
By Eiri Ohtani, The Detention Forum, London, UK. A stone’s throw from a relatively upmarket hotel, near London’s Heathrow airport, stand two detention centres, Harmondsworth and Colnbrook [...]
By Elisabeth Schmidt-Hieber, PICUM Communications Officer. ‘The sea is full of dead bodies.’ ‘Corpses are crammed into the wreck and some of the bodies – even in death – seeming to [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
