By Nicola Flamigni, PICUM Communications Officer. Migrants, activists, lawyers, designers, web developers, journalists, photographers, engineers and musicians…. all together to attend [...]
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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 [...]
BORDERS UNITED NATIONS EUROPEAN POLICY DEVELOPMENTS NATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS HEALTH CARE LABOUR AND FAIR WORKING CONDITIONS UNDOCUMENTED WOMEN UNDOCUMENTED CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES DETENTION AND [...]
BORDERS NATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS HEALTH CARE LABOUR AND FAIR WORKING CONDITIONS UNDOCUMENTED WOMEN UNDOCUMENTED CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES DETENTION AND DEPORTATION PUBLICATIONS AND OTHER RESOURCES [...]
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 [...]
BORDERS UNITED NATIONS EUROPEAN POLICY DEVELOPMENTS NATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS HEALTH CARE LABOUR AND FAIR WORKING CONDITIONS UNDOCUMENTED CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES DETENTION AND DEPORTATION [...]
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 [...]
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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. [...]
BORDERS UNITED NATIONS EUROPEAN POLICY DEVELOPMENTS NATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS HEALTH CARE LABOUR AND FAIR WORKING CONDITIONS UNDOCUMENTED CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES DETENTION AND DEPORTATION [...]
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 [...]
BORDERS UNITED NATIONS EUROPEAN POLICY DEVELOPMENTS HEALTH CARE LABOUR AND FAIR WORKING CONDITIONS UNDOCUMENTED CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES DETENTION AND DEPORTATION PUBLICATIONS AND OTHER [...]
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 [...]
BORDERS EUROPEAN POLICY DEVELOPMENTS NATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS HEALTH CARE LABOUR AND FAIR WORKING CONDITIONS UNDOCUMENTED WOMEN UNDOCUMENTED CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES DETENTION AND DEPORTATION [...]
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 [...]
BORDERS EUROPEAN POLICY DEVELOPMENTS NATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS HEALTH CARE LABOUR AND FAIR WORKING CONDITIONS UNDOCUMENTED WOMEN UNDOCUMENTED CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES DETENTION AND DEPORTATION [...]
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 [...]
MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR Dear subscribers, As we begin 2012, PICUM looks back with hope and promise gained from some milestones in the last months of 2011, as several institutions demonstrated [...]
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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 [...]
BORDERS UNITED NATIONS NATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS HEALTH CARE LABOUR AND FAIR WORKING CONDITIONS UNDOCUMENTED WOMEN UNDOCUMENTED CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES DETENTION AND DEPORTATION PUBLICATIONS AND [...]
BORDERS UNITED NATIONS EUROPEAN POLICY DEVELOPMENTS NATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS HEALTH CARE LABOUR AND FAIR WORKING CONDITIONS UNDOCUMENTED WOMEN UNDOCUMENTED CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES DETENTION AND [...]
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 [...]
BORDERS UNITED NATIONS EUROPEAN POLICY DEVELOPMENTS NATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS HEALTH CARE UNDOCUMENTED WOMEN UNDOCUMENTED CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES DETENTION AND DEPORTATION PUBLICATIONS AND OTHER [...]
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 [...]
BORDERS UNITED NATIONS EUROPEAN POLICY DEVELOPMENTS HEALTH CARE LABOUR AND FAIR WORKING CONDITIONS UNDOCUMENTED WOMEN UNDOCUMENTED CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES DETENTION AND DEPORTATION [...]
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 [...]
BORDERS EUROPEAN POLICY DEVELOPMENTS NATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS LABOUR AND FAIR WORKING CONDITIONS UNDOCUMENTED WOMEN UNDOCUMENTED CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES DETENTION AND DEPORTATION PUBLICATIONS [...]
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 [...]
Dear Subscribers, We hope you all had a great summer! Please find below the latest edition of the PICUM Bulletin. We hope it will give you a thorough update of what has been happening on the [...]
BORDERS UNITED NATIONS EUROPEAN POLICY DEVELOPMENTS NATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS HEALTH CARE LABOUR AND FAIR WORKING CONDITIONS UNDOCUMENTED WOMEN UNDOCUMENTED CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES DETENTION AND [...]
BORDERS UNITED NATIONS EUROPEAN POLICY DEVELOPMENTS NATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS HEALTH CARE LABOUR AND FAIR WORKING CONDITIONS UNDOCUMENTED WOMEN UNDOCUMENTED CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES DETENTION AND [...]
BORDERS EUROPEAN POLICY DEVELOPMENTS NATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS LABOUR AND FAIR WORKING CONDITIONS UNDOCUMENTED WOMEN UNDOCUMENTED CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES DETENTION AND DEPORTATION PUBLICATIONS [...]
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 [...]
BORDERS UNITED NATIONS EUROPEAN POLICY DEVELOPMENTS NATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS UNDOCUMENTED WOMEN UNDOCUMENTED CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES DETENTION AND DEPORTATION PUBLICATIONS AND OTHER RESOURCES [...]
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 [...]
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Dear Subscribers, We apologize for the delay in sending out this edition of the PICUM Bulletin. We hope you will find it full of rich and useful information to support your activism and interest [...]
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 [...]
BORDERS UNITED NATIONS EUROPEAN POLICY DEVELOPMENTS NATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS HEALTH CARE LABOUR AND FAIR WORKING CONDITIONS UNDOCUMENTED WOMEN UNDOCUMENTED CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES DETENTION AND [...]
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 [...]
