REPORT
Citation: Spencer S. and V. Hughes.(2015). Outside and in: Legal Entitlements to Health Care and Education for Migrants with Irregular Status in Europe. Oxford: COMPAS. www.compas.ox.ac.uk/media/PR-2015-Outside _In_Mapping.pdf
Abstract/Description:
This report sets out for the 28 Member States of the European Union (EU28) the legal entitlements for migrants with irregular status to access health care services and, for children, education. The data is also set out for each country individually in a separate Annex. The report is part of a broader study exploring the official rationales for granting access to services at national, regional and municipal level.
We use the term ‘migrants with irregular status’ and ‘irregular migrants’ to denote adults who have remained in a country or entered without authorisation. We use ‘entitlements’ rather than rights as referring to a legal entitlement to a specific service rather than to the broader but sometimes less specific fundamental rights to health care and education in international human rights standards.
The report covers entitlements in law not the many barriers that can nevertheless impede an individual securing access to the service. We note, however, where a requirement to cover the full cost of health care, or a requirement on service providers to pass on the details of service users to the immigration authorities, in effect nullifies the entitlement to that service.
This publication is available here.
This is NOT a C-MISE publication: this website hosts links to external publications and resources selected by the C-MISE team on the basis of their relevance for city authorities interested in service provision to migrants with irregular status, and are only presented here as suggested readings. External publications are the product of the authors there mentioned, and are not in any way the product of the C-MISE initiative, nor are they related or endorsed by the C-MISE initiative.
