Refused and ‘undocumented’ migrants who do not have permission to reside in the country because they may have overstayed their visa, been refused asylum or entered the country ‘illegally’ are likely to experience destitution. Undocumented migrants do have rights under European and international law but the fact that their entitlement to rights is being questioned poses a threat to human rights within Europe (Geddie, 2009, p 29). It has been suggested that the government is using destitution as a mechanism to send messages about the lack of support to deter asylum seekers and to pressure those who refuse to sign up to voluntary return. See the ‘Still Human Still Here’ campaign at www.stillhumanstillhere.wordpress.com. For those who do sign up to voluntary return (deportation), a roof and some costs towards subsistence are provided. Because refused asylum seekers are denied access to public funds, they are outside of citizenship and the law and their status as ‘undocumented’, ‘sans papiers’, makes them incredibly vulnerable on a number of registers. Lacking in social rights they cannot access health, welfare and support services – their lives are truly lived on the margins of the margins: