Europe: Migrant workers' denied fundamental rights

Europe: Migrant workers' denied fundamental rights

Index Number: EUR 01/005/2005
Date Published: 28 April 2005
Categories: Europe And Central Asia

The word that best describes the experiences of many migrants living and working in Europe is "precarious". Racist and xenophobic attitudes, often exacerbated by politicians and the populist media, disrupt and unsettle the integration of migrants into the societies in which they live. Without a bond of citizenship to the country in which they work, they have little more than this precarious position from which to confront discrimination and exploitative labour practices in the workplace.