After sustained campaigning by undocumented migrants and supporters, trade unions and civil-society groups helped obtain a political commitment on regularisation criteria. The campaign combined demonstrations, church and university occupations, hunger strikes and public advocacy. The date marks an agreement in the process, not the end of the struggle: implementation followed in 2009, and access to regularisation remained contested and conditional.
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What combination of tactics helped undocumented residents campaign for regularisation in 2008?
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The campaign combined public protest and direct action with civil-society and trade-union support.
Undocumented residents’ 2008 regularisation campaign used occupations and demonstrations as well as advocacy.
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The campaign involved public demonstrations, occupations, hunger strikes and union support.