undocumented migrants

• Spain
• Senegal

An undocumented migrant from Senegal was granted residency in Spain on Friday after he was celebrated as a hero for having saved a disabled man from a burning building last month.

• France

Over the last year, the so-called Gilets Noirs - or Black Vests - have been holding demonstrations in France to bring the rights of undocumented migrants to public attention. But who are they?

• Mali
• France

A group of 25 Malians without papers, who had been illegally employed on a big building site in Paris in 2016, have each been awarded €34,000 in damages, with interest, for "systematic racial discrimination" by a French employment tribunal.

• Italy

The Italian constitutional court has ruled that judges can drop minor crime cases against undocumented migrants if the defendants have already been deported.

• Spain
• Senegal

Gorgui Lamine Sow, an undocumented migrant from Senegal has become a hero in Spain after he saved a man in a wheelchair from a fire in the man’s apartment. Now, the Spanish authorities are considering whether to award Sow a residency permit. More than 55,000 people have signed an online petition asking that they do so.

• Italy

There were 530,000 non-EU citizens in Italy without a valid stay permit in late 2018, according to the organization Assindatcolf. That included up to 200,000 domestic workers, such as caregivers for the elderly and children and cleaners.

• France

53,000 migrants, some with refugee status, have been evacuated from make-shift street camps in the Paris area over the past four years. Yet the camps keep springing up and hundreds are being forced to sleep rough, as the French authorities fail to find a solution.

• Norway

A prominent former Norwegian clergyman is facing jail time for employing an undocumented immigrant from Eritrea as a cleaner. In Norway, which is known for its strict immigration laws, rejected asylum seekers are not allowed to work - even when by law, as is the case of this Eritrean woman, they cannot legally be deported by the state.

• Italy

A top interior ministry official has said that an illegal migrant camp in rural Puglia near Borgo Mezzanone will be cleared progressively. The shanty town mainly hosts migrants working as farm hands in the area.

• United Kingdom

Getting by as a migrant without papers is certainly hard. If you become sick, it can be much worse - even life-threatening. So where can you turn in the UK if you need medical assistance?

• Greece

Getting by as a migrant without papers is hard – but if you become sick, it can be much worse, even life-threatening. Where can you turn for medical care in Greece?

• France

Getting by as a migrant without papers is certainly hard, and if you become sick it can be much worse, even life threatening. So where can you turn in France when you need medical assistance?