Professor Heaven Crawley has nearly 30 years’ experience of undertaking research on international migration in a variety of settings (government, voluntary sector, national and international organisations, academia). She was previously head of asylum and migration research at the UK Home Office (2000-2002) and now leads the UKRI GCRF South-South Migration;…
When Elene was 9 years old, she left her native Georgia on a journey for a new home. The trip to Belgium and the following few years deeply marked Irina, who, as a young child, was overwhelmed by the huge changes in her life. Now, after having lived in Belgium for many years, she is an Executive Assistant in an international consulting company and lives in Brussels close to her siblings. To support our #whatishome campaign, Irina generously shared her experience as a refugee and how she later came to find a fulfilling life in Belgium.
The ongoing global discussion about racism and ethnic discrimination needs to include the obstacles faced by non-European migrants in Europe. While migrants have long been contributing and have played a critical role as essential workers recently during the pandemic, they have rarely been recognised for their positive contributions and their rights are still being undermined.
Luiza Soares was born in Cape Verde. At the age of 12 she moved to the Netherlands, where she later became the first woman of Cape Verdean origin to get elected at semi-national level in 2014. She has been involved in diaspora activism since 2003 and recently took this commitment…
Based on Caritas Europa’s intervention at the webinar Migrants and refugees facing the Covid-19 crisis, what lessons for the post-pandemic time?, organised by the Conference of INGOs of the Council of Europe. Much has already been said about the immense impact that COVID-19 has had on migrants. The pandemic has…
On the occasion of the World Refugee Day we call on European states to honour the commitment made in December 2019 at the first Global Refugee Forum to resettle 30,000 refugees in 2020, and to protect the right to asylum and to non-refoulement in Europe. The COVID-19 pandemic has hit…
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Originally published on EUObserver under the title Undocumented workers are Covid-19 'elephant in room' in co-authorship with Davide Gnes, Policy and Advocacy Officer at Caritas Europa. The current Covid-19 crisis has shed light on the key contribution of migrants, including those who are undocumented, to European economies and societies. This…
Originally published on Euractiv under the title The Roma are among most threatened by Covid-19 in Europe on the occasion of the International Roma Day. Written in co-authorship with Thomas Hackl, Programme Director of Humanitarian Aid at Caritas Romania. Roma and Travellers have long been known to fall through the…
The combination of public and private financing, defined as blended finance, has been increasingly used in the last decade by the European Union as part of its Overseas Development Aid (ODA). One of the main arguments behind it is that it enhances the coordination between Development Finance Institutions, governments, donors…