PICUM Bulletin — 4 July 2011
BORDERS UNITED NATIONS EUROPEAN POLICY DEVELOPMENTS NATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS HEALTH CARE LABOUR AND FAIR WORKING CONDITIONS UNDOCUMENTED WOMEN UNDOCUMENTED CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES DETENTION AND [...]
PICUM Bulletin — 20 June 2011
BORDERS UNITED NATIONS EUROPEAN POLICY DEVELOPMENTS NATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS HEALTH CARE LABOUR AND FAIR WORKING CONDITIONS UNDOCUMENTED WOMEN UNDOCUMENTED CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES DETENTION AND [...]
PICUM Bulletin — 7 June 2011
BORDERS EUROPEAN POLICY DEVELOPMENTS NATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS LABOUR AND FAIR WORKING CONDITIONS UNDOCUMENTED WOMEN UNDOCUMENTED CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES DETENTION AND DEPORTATION PUBLICATIONS [...]
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 [...]
PICUM Bulletin — 23 May 2011
BORDERS UNITED NATIONS EUROPEAN POLICY DEVELOPMENTS NATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS UNDOCUMENTED WOMEN UNDOCUMENTED CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES DETENTION AND DEPORTATION PUBLICATIONS AND OTHER RESOURCES [...]
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 [...]
PICUM Bulletin — 9 May 2011
BORDERS UNITED NATIONS EUROPEAN POLICY DEVELOPMENTS NATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS HEALTH CARE LABOUR AND FAIR WORKING CONDITIONS UNDOCUMENTED WOMEN UNDOCUMENTED CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES DETENTION AND [...]
PICUM Bulletin — 27 April 2011
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 [...]
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 [...]
PICUM Bulletin — 11 April 2011
BORDERS UNITED NATIONS EUROPEAN POLICY DEVELOPMENTS NATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS HEALTH CARE LABOUR AND FAIR WORKING CONDITIONS UNDOCUMENTED WOMEN UNDOCUMENTED CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES DETENTION AND [...]
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 [...]
PICUM Bulletin — 28 March 2011
Dear Subscribers, Please find below PICUM Bulletin which provides you with up to date and regular information on news items and policy developments concerning the basic social rights of [...]
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 [...]
PICUM Bulletin — 14 March 2011
Dear Subscribers, Please find below the first edition of the PICUM Bulletin which will be sent out every two weeks to provide you with up to date and regular information on news items and policy [...]
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 [...]
