Migrant-led advocacy can be seen as a new form of advocacy that has emerged from the lived experience of those most affected: migrants themselves. Migrants can use first-hand experiences to improve migration policies, for themselves, for their communities and for European societies. Policymaking is improved when affected populations are engaged in its development.

Because of their proximity to the realities of their communities, they are often also ‘first responders’ to migrant’ needs and priorities, and already engaged in work to improve the lives of migrants on the ground.

Migrant advocates participating in this research identified challenges for their work and solutions to overcome them.

Published in October 2019 by the European Programme for Integration and Migration
(EPIM)