Research projects by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights on undocumented migration
Research projects by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights on undocumented migration

Author(s): Adriano Silvestri
Subject(s): Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Migration Studies, EU-Accession / EU-DEvelopment
Published by: CEPS Centre for European Policy Studies
Keywords: European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights; Undocumented migration; FRA; National governments; EU;
Summary/Abstract: The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) is an advisory agency of the EU. It was set up in March 2007 and is based in Vienna. The FRA helps to ensure that the EU and national governments respect people’s fundamental rights. It does this by collecting evidence about the situation of fundamental rights across the EU. Based on such evidence it provides advice about how to improve the situation. Two of the FRA’s projects focus on the fundamental rights situation of irregular migrants in the EU. The first project aims at providing a legal analysis of a number of issues covered in the Directive on Returns (2008/115/EC). The second project collects information on the situation of irregular migrants in the EU from national authorities, municipalities, various actors working with irregular migrants, and most importantly from migrants themselves. This paper draws on preliminary findings of these two projects.

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