Migration and Ethnicity

Migrant homelessness has become more and more visible in recent years and migrants, despite all data limitations concerning both migration and homelessness, actually make up a significant percentage of the homeless people. The increasing proportion of migrants as a subgroup of Europe’s homeless population has been described by academic research and reports (FEANTSA, 2002; Busch- Geertsema et al., 2010; Pleace, 2012; FEANTSA, 2013; OPVAG- FEANTSA, 2015) and data collected about this phenomenon show that migrants are experiencing homelessness at a disproportionate rate, even if there are still many differences among countries, very different national policy responses to migration and, again, a severe lack of accurate data on homelessness among immigrants.