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contacts with the homeless organizations came about through FEANTSA, the
European Federation of Organisations working with the Homeless. FEANTSA has had
the issue of ‘migrants’ on its agenda the last years, since their members
are more and more confronted with migrants and undocumented migrants doing an
appeal on them. The interest of FEANTSA in cooperating with PICUM on this issue
emanates from this observation and the need to find an answer to this problem.
This does not mean that FEANTSA and its members are unanimously in favor of
opening up their homeless shelters for undocumented migrants, the argumentation
for this is explained in the chapter on homeless shelters.
We are very grateful that OEVER has provided us with the necessary funds to conduct this research.
We also would like to make a special mention of Rebecca van Parys and thank her for dedicating much time and efforts to conduct the interviews and to analyse all the information into a suitable report.