High accompaniment needs: absolute poverty and vulnerable migrants
High accompaniment needs: absolute poverty and vulnerable migrants
The chapter shows the challenge of migrants to Europe ending up in absolute poverty, especially if they are undocumented or illegal. The chapter makes three claims: (1) Migrants, especially those with low educational levels and traumatic biographies, are persons with high accompaniment needs – these needs are based on mental health challenges, challenges of cultural literacy and deskilling, and discriminatory practices; (2) without proper accompaniment migrants face a high risk of poverty including a risk of absolute poverty; (3) the organization and justification of accompaniment needs to be justified which has to happen on the basis of a firm commitment to human dignity. Nonetheless there are tough decisions that have to be made.
Keywords: migration, accompaniment, mental health, absolute poverty, dignity
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