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PICUM, the Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants, is a non-governmental organisation (NGO) that aims to promote respect for the human rights of undocumented migrants within Europe. PICUM also seeks dialogue with organisations and networks with similar concerns in other parts of the world.

PICUM promotes respect for the basic social rights of undocumented migrants, such as the right to health care, the right to shelter, the right to education and training, the right to minimum subsistence, the right to family life, the right to moral and physical integrity, the right to legal aid, and the right to fair labour conditions.

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Vacancies and Internships

Current vacancies: PICUM is seeking a motivated and diligent individual to serve as an Office and Financial Administrator in its office in Brussels, Belgium. This is an excellent opportunity for a committed individual to occupy a key position in a dynamic nonprofit organisation based in Brussels and operating at the European level.

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PICUM News

PICUM has published a report outlining its “Main Concerns about the Fundamental Rights of Undocumented Migrants in Europe (2009)”. Based on a review of events reported in the PICUM newsletter during the year 2008, the report pieces together a year of European, national and local news issues on irregular migration to foster a better understanding of the main concerns of human rights of undocumented migrants, as well as the multifaceted ways in which civil society throughout Europe is responding to this situation of social exclusion.

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PICUM News

The findings of the European research project CLANDESTINO, in which PICUM was a partner from 2007 to 2009, are now available online.

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Latest Publications

Report on an Workshop organized by the European Commission, DG Research on Undocumented and irregular migration: policy developments, data and social impliations
BRUSSELS, November 2009

The objective of this workshop was to present the main results of the research projects CLANDESTINO and UWT to the policy community based in Brussels. The main topics discussed in the workshop were the CLANDESTINO database on irregular migration which presents and classifies (as low, medium or high quality) estimates and data on irregular migration in the European Union and in selected member states, the possible ways through which migrants become irregular and vice-versa, the impact of irregular migration in EU labour markets and the impact of member-states’ policies on regular and irregular migration.

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Projects

NowHereLand
The project Health Care in NowHereLand – Improving Services for Undocumented Migrants in the EU has as its aim to improve knowledge regarding service provision for undocumented migrants by collecting existing practice in health policy and health services in the EU.

NEF-EPIM
This is a three-year project sponsored by the Network of European Foundations (NEF) and the European Programme for Integration and Migration (EPIM) which has as its goal to strengthen the fundamental rights of undocumented migrants in Europe.

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