POLICY VIEW PAPER ON THE INCLUSION OF MIGRANTS, REFUGEES & ASYLUM SEEKERS IN EU POLICY ON MIGRATION 

On Day 2 of our ‘Nothing about us without us event’ at COST HQ in Brussels in June 2024 participants broke into small groups to try to capture the conversations that had been happening over the last day-and-a-half that could have applicability to policy makers. As one of the key aims and strengths of this Action is to take research and experiential insights beyond academia and into the realm of public policy, this was an important step in crystalising our key take aways in light of EU and international policies on the pressing need for identity documents to access services and basic citizenship rights, the digitalisation of a range of identity documents and the consequent digital divide this causes and the movement of people internationally that has prompted the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum.

We discussed the issues we thought were the most compelling and one clear insight emerged: policy makers must LISTEN to those most affected by the policies they create and implement.

The HIDDEN Policy Viewpoint expresses some of these ideas in an easy to digest poster – please feel free to use and share with attribution to the HIDDEN COST Action CA21120.

The PDF is available at the following link: