Safe reporting of crime for migrants with irregular status in Belgium

Report

Original Resource

Authors	Anja Van den Durpel
Description	This report describes the legal and policy framework governing reporting of crime by victims of crime with irregular migration status in Belgium. It contributes to a wider project of the University of Oxford's Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) analysing policy and law governing “safe reporting of crime” by victims with irregular migration status in Europe and the USA. The project explores law and policy in the United States and four European countries to assess the avenues irregular migrants have to report crime safely without risking deportation. It aims to assess the legal and political “replicability” of “firewall” practices across different countries, including the replicability in Europe of any aspects of US “sanctuary” policies. As well as the Belgian report, the project includes similar reports for Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, and the United States.
Year	2019
Language	English
Keywords	irregular migrants crime victim safe reporting Victims Directive

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

Socio-cultural consequences
- Racism, xenophobia and discrimination
Socio-economic consequences
- (Sexual) Exploitation
Transversal consequences
- Psychological consequences of migration
Legal-political consequences
- Crime

Migration governance

Governance actors
Immigrant policy and law
- Integration policies (legal, political, socio-economic, cultural) and access to services
Migration policy and law
- Immigration admission and control (general)
- Policies on irregular migration
Governance processes
- Criminalisation

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

Migration research and theory
- Research-policy relations

Disciplines

Disciplines
Subject Areas
- Governance and Public Administration
- Social Work

Methods

Geographies

Scope
UN Countries
- Belgium

Experts

Anja Van den Durpel

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Bringing migration research under one roof.

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This project was made possible thanks to funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement Ares(2017) 5627812-77012.

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