Of course, Sarkozy's vilification of immigrant communities was punctuated by banal cautions: "In no way is this stigmatizing the Roma"; "I'm only talking about foreigners in irregular situations".
But the Pope has said several times since his election that the Church must not make children of couples in irregular situations feel like second-class faithful, and agreed to baptise 7-month-old Giulia Scardia into the faith.
The high disparities in Catalonia/Valencia may be due to contrasting influxes of better-off, and therefore healthier, Western Europeans on one end of the continuum of risk and immigrants from poor regions in the other end, including many Latin Americans and North and Sub-Saharan Africans in irregular situations and living in marginalised conditions, thus increasing the differences.
According to authors' data we know most immigrant women prostitutes in our region are in an "irregular situation" (María Jesús Fernandez Ollero is at this moment conducting the first study about the characteristics of women prostitutes that has been carried out in Asturias since 1992, commissioned by the "Consejería de Vivienda y Bienestar Social" of the Asturian Government).
The term "irregular migrants" has been introduced to avoid the discriminatory, dehumanising and criminalising term "illegal migrants"; sometimes the terms "undocumented migrants" [ 5] or "migrants in an irregular situation" [ 6] are also used.
As outlined by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA), migrants in an irregular situation should have access to healthcare, and children with irregular migration status are thought to face legal and practical obstacles to accessing healthcare.
Migrants in an irregular situation can present with psychosomatic problems, problems that can also be related to the use of drugs and alcohol and to posttraumatic stress disorders, psychotic disorders, and depressive symptoms (49, 50).
The majority of domestic workers and carers are migrant women, most of whom are in an irregular situation, says the text, which points out that their social and cultural inclusion is facilitated by integrating them into the labour market.
As a result, from now on empirical researchers would be able to report test statistics in those irregular situations too.
The resulting samples will be less useful in studying the less stable population that goes unregistered in the Anagrafe (recent arrivals, irregular situation or short-term migrants).7.7
