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New Walled Order: How Barriers To Basic Services Turn Migration Into A Humanitarian Crisis 

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New Walled Order: How Barriers To Basic Services Turn Migration Into A Humanitarian Crisis 

Around the world, migrants, especially irregular migrants, increasingly face barriers to accessing essential services that are indispensable to their survival and basic dignity, such as health care, shelter, food and legal assistance. There are a range of factors that prevent this access, including outright exclusions but also more indirect factors, such as fears of arrest, detention and deportation, prohibitively high service costs, and language issues.  

Date of Publication
Type of Resource
Report
Source / Publisher
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)
Language
English
Geographic Scope
Global
Workstream Output
No
Regional Review Process
No
GCM Objectives
7
Cross Cutting Theme
People-centred
Human rights
Keywords
Irregular migration
Status
Published

*References to Kosovo shall be understood to be in the context of United Nations Security Council resolution 1244 (1999).