Eve Geddie

Eve Geddie is programmes director of the Platform for International Co-operation on Undocumented Migrants (PICUM), a non-governmental organisation that promotes respect for their human rights of undocumented migrant. PICUM links the grassroots, where undocumented migrants' experience is most visible, and the European level, where policies relating to them are determined. Its monthly newsletter, produced in seven languages, circulates to more than 4,000 civil-society organisations and individuals.

Undocumented migrants: time to change the European discourse

Most undocumented migrants in Europe are not products of irregular entry and humanitarian crises such as that at Lampedusa are not unavoidable tragedies. As the EU starts work on a new programme on migration it must shift approach from control and surveillance.

By Eve Geddie

/ 16 Jan 2014