Undocumented Migrants

On this significant anniversary, PICUM brings together the voices of more than 100 migrant women, NGOs, trade unions, and governmental officials from across Europe to highlight how undocumented migrant women working in Europe’s households are often denied the most basic protections from exploitation and abuse with the release of its report “Violence and Exploitation of Undocumented Migrant Women: Building Strategies to End Impunity”.

To protect the undocumented migrants in his flock, Father Alejandro Solalinde heads for the freight train tracks, flanked by two bodyguards toting automatic assault rifles.

This is how god's work must be done in southern Mexico, where human traffickers, organ thieves, and drug gangs prowl trainyards, looking for travelling migrants to capture, rape, rob or harass.

As night falls, the freight train - known as la bestia (or "the beast") - rolls by with dozens of people, mostly from Central America, waving as they ride on top of boxcars.

MRC launches its report “Hope Costs Nothing – a report on the lives of undocumented migrants in the UK –  2010”. The report, funded by Barrow Cadbury Trust, gives a vivid first hand account of the clandestine world that many   undocumented migrants in the UK are forced to live in. Ros Lucas, Executive Director of MRC, says that the report, based on the experiences of 43 undocumented migrants throughout the UK, “ ….illustrates how living in a twilight world meant that man

In a little office just off the main drag in this small southern Ontario town, a handful of Mexican workers sit around and drink coffee. They would rather be digging and grading strawberry plants, the jobs they were hired for, but the farmer who hired them has left the country without paying them the thousands of dollars they're owed.