Human Rights Watch is engaged in a multi-year research and advocacy project on the human rights of migrants in Western Europe. The project involves conducting research in a number of West European countries, with an eye toward influencing both national and European Union law and policy on the human rights of migrants. Our research began in 2000 and has thus far revealed a range of migrant rights abuses in several European Union members states, including arbitrary detention; gravely substandard conditions of detention; procedural violations in criminal and administrative law proceedings, and in the asylum system; racial and ethnic discrimination; police abuse; arbitrary and collective expulsions; violations of children’s and women’s rights; abuses of migrants and asylum seekers at the hands of human traffickers, and economic and social rights violations.