Access to health care for undocumented migrants
Access to health care for undocumented migrants

Author(s): Kadri Soova, Michele LeVoy
Subject(s): Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Health and medicine and law, Migration Studies, EU-Accession / EU-DEvelopment
Published by: CEPS Centre for European Policy Studies
Keywords: Health care; undocumented migrants; EU;
Summary/Abstract: While numerous international instruments in human rights law have been ratified by EU member states and refer to the right of everyone to health care as a basic human right (regardless of one’s administrative status), the laws and practices in many European states deviate from these obligations. It is a fact that a high percentage of undocumented migrants do not access any kind of health care even if they are entitled to do so. For them, a worsening of their physical and mental health is more likely to occur because of poor access to health care services or the continual fear of being discovered and deported.

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