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Nov 5, 2022 · The Balkan route taken by refugees into the EU has not been in the spotlight for some time. But it's still busy and getting busier. EU officials recorded mor...
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The Belgian government is under fire for its lack of response to asylum seekers sleeping rough on the streets of capital Brussels. Volunteer organisations sa...
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Feb 28, 2024 · New conflicts on the EU's doorstep - and around the world - have led to increasing numbers of people seeking refuge in the bloc. Last year, the EU received m...
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- ‘We Went from Providing Advice to Providing Food’
- Undocumented in Belgium
- Locked Down Without Money For Food
- ‘Being Undocumented Is More Difficult Than The Virus’
- ‘Being Tough on Migrants Is Good For Your Polls’
- A Lifetime of Struggle
- ‘A Failure in The System’
One thing that is for certain is that the strike managed to draw attention to the plight of undocumented people in Belgium and elsewhere in Europe. Since the coronavirus pandemic first swept this continent in early 2020, many European residents have been able to weather the crisis by relying on state social services. Government furlough schemes for...
So desperate was the situation for undocumented people in Belgium that, in January this year, around 200 people, including Lakoighet, set up camp on the stone floor of a 17th-century church in central Brussels in an effort to gain greater visibility. As more undocumented protesters joined in, the group spread out to two other locations across the c...
For 20-year-old Nada Radouani and her mother, both of whom participated in the hunger strike, the lockdowns meant there wasn’t enough money for food. Radouani is an upbeat Gen Z-er. A polyglot and makeup addict from Morocco, she blends in easily with the cafe-goers around her. But, she emphasises, she is not like the others, because she is undocume...
One person who brought a note of sunshine to the long days and nights of the occupation and hunger strike is Chouaib Lakoighet, who, in addition to his kickboxing and kung fu prowess, also plays flamenco guitar. In the church where he and other protesters have slept since January, his playing helps soften the sometimes hard edges of protracted prot...
What exactly those promises are, though, no one can say for sure. Nothing was committed to paper during the meetings between protest organisers and government representatives. Some of the hunger strikers seem to be under the impression that they will, as a group, be granted legal residency. Mahdi’s office, however, not only adamantly denies this bu...
No one is asking Belgium to simply open its doors and let everyone in, clarifies Mamadou, who asks that we not use his real name because he does not want friends and family back home in Gambia to know he is undocumented. A veteran activist and organiser for undocumented people in Belgium, Mamadou did not participate in the hunger strike but support...
During the pandemic, the government has turned to Mamadou and his colleagues to help communicate critical health information to other undocumented people, like the importance of wearing a mask and how to get medical care, including the COVID vaccine. One bright spot for undocumented people in Belgium is that the vaccine has been made available to e...
Nov 24, 2022 · We are therefore asking Belgium today to fulfil its international obligations! The State Secretariat for Asylum and Migration, as well as the agency in charge of receiving refugees, turned down my ...
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Oct 31, 2022 · Belgium overwhelmed by new influx of asylum seekers. The reception structures are saturated, forcing many migrants to spend the night on the street. By Jean-Pierre Stroobants (Brussels, Europe ...
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Nov 24, 2022 · Along with a team of lawyers, she works around the clock to provide assistance for refugees. "The Belgian State has been condemned 7,000 times by the labour court, which said that it must provide ...
