Living in Limbo, Forced Migrants Destitution in Europe
- Document number
- 2702
- Date
- 2011
- Title
- Living in Limbo, Forced Migrants Destitution in Europe
- Author/publisher
- Jesuit Refugee Service Europe (JRS)
- Availability
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- Document type(s)
- Meeting Documentation/Conference Reports, Research/Study/Analysis,
- Keywords
- Irregular Migration, Feminization of migration, Economic migration, Labour migration, Free movement, Undocumented migrants; Undocumented labour; Migrant rights; Migration management; Comprehensive approach to migration; Migration policy; Restrictive migration measures, Violence, Human rights violation, Crime against humanity, War crime, Armed conflict, Post-conflict situation, Terrorism,
- Summary
- This report describes the social and legal situation of forced migrants who came from countries outside the European Union and are living in destitution in the following EU Member States: Belgium, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Malta, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom. Annexes contain summaries of the situation in France, Slovenia and Ukraine. The basis for the report is a definition of destitution as a situation of lack of means to meet basic needs such as shelter, food, health or education as a consequence of a State‘s policy which excludes certain migrants from enjoying basic rights and receiving official assistance or severely limits their access to such assistance and, simultaneously, deprives them of any effective opportunity to improve that situation, resulting in a continuing denial of the dignity of the person. The report gives an insight into the meaning of destitution and its effects on migrants who suffer from it.
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