Law and practice. Access to health care for undocumented migrants and asylum seekers in 10 EU countries.
The HUMA network is publishing a first comparative inventory of the legislations in 10 European countries on access to health care for undocumented migrants and asylum seekers.
This first report of the HUMA network, Law and practice. Access to health care for undocumented migrants and asylum seekers in 10 EU countries, issued in 2009, seeks to provide an updated overview of the different systems regulating access to health care for undocumented migrants and asylum seekers in ten Member States (Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Malta, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the UK) and shows the existing discriminations in regards to legal entitlements.
This research has corroborated that the right to health is guaranteed neither for undocumented migrants nor for asylum seekers in the EU. In none of those countries undocumented migrants can access “the highest attainable level of physical and mental care,” as it is recognised by the main international human rights instruments.
Download the complete version of the HUMA network report
Or the executive summary (updated with 16 countries in 2011):
Comparative_Overview_16_countries.pdf
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