Dutch expulsion procedure for Venezuelan (child) migrants from Curaçao seems subpar

Massive numbers of Venezuelan (child) migrants are on the move, fleeing deplorable humanitarian conditions. In Curaçao, it seems that many are expelled without prior assessment of their cases.

Chrisje Sandelowsky • November 29, 2022

The right to regularise irregular residence is a human right

The regularisation of irregular migrants is a human right. Having a stable immigration status is a prerequisite for leading a normal life. Article 8 ECHR protects the right to private and family life and can oblige a state to regularise an irregular migrant.

Mark Klaassen • November 16, 2020 • 1 comment

The natural process of mutual integration

Western countries expect immigrants to adapt to their culture, whereas for centuries colonizing Europeans always imposed their ways on the native inhabitants they came across. In reality both cultures will always naturally fuse to become a new one.

Wim Bonis • January 10, 2018

The Ongoing Search for the Promised Land

Before we start criminalising economic migrants as fortune seekers, we should realise that Western culture itself has spread the idea of fortune seeking across the globe. We are all in the same boat, but perhaps we have been searching in the wrong place.

Wim Bonis • May 18, 2016

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Dutch expulsion procedure for Venezuelan (child) migrants from Curaçao seems subpar

The right to regularise irregular residence is a human right

The natural process of mutual integration

The Ongoing Search for the Promised Land