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members indicated that access to housing is one of the main problems for
undocumented migrants. Therefore it was included on PICUM’s agenda to start
with a project on shelter. The information published on this website is the
result of an exploratory research done by the PICUM secretariat, and of a
workshop organized with organizations providing assistance in housing problems.
The main aim of this project was to clearly define the problem to reveal the
various causes and components of the problem, and to provide a basis for
PICUM’s members to develop a plan for further action.
This
report provides information of the right to housing in general, and gives an
overview of the situation in six selected countries as regards the housing
situation of undocumented migrants. The information resulted from desk research
and from interviews with staff of both homeless organizations and NGOs dealing
with undocumented migrants.
This
report has an explorative character, and is therefore focusing on a limited
amount of countries: the Netherlands, Belgium, Italy, Austria, Germany and
Spain. Click here for a list of interviewees,
or for the questionnaire
for the interviews. You can also consult the bibliography.
Because
of the explorative character of the research, the information provided here does
not aspire to be complete. The information on the different countries serves to
give a broad overview and to detect the main problems, but needs to be completed
in a possible later stage.
The research was finalized in April 2004.