Estimated 1-4% of the overall population in Europe are undocumented migrants (UDM), living in a NowHereland, where they face extremely precarious and health threatening living conditions. NowHereland is a paradox country: inhabitants are officially not visible, but part of social reality and health care providers have to deal with them in the area of conflict between the basic human right for health care, state control logic and the simple wish to help.

Health care organisations and professionals find themselves in a paradox situation: if they give care, they may act against legal and financial regulations, if they don’t give care they violate human rights and exclude the most vulnerable. Also, the status of UDM leads to a paradox situation for people as access to health care may threat their existence - they might get visible to the system and be imprisoned and deported.