In 2025, the Migreurop network celebrated 20 years of existence and of fighting against deadly migration policies. To mark the occasion, members produced a documentary and wrote a text recounting the 20-year history of this Euro-African activist network.
Migreurop, 20 years of struggle: a documentary film by Romain Kosselek.
Our history
This text, co-written by members of the network, traces the history of Migreurop’s struggles, from the closure of camps to freedom of movement. (…)

As part of her volunteering mission with Migreurop in partnership with Euromed Rights in Brussels (2025-2026), Jeanne Olivet publishes a trimonthly column in which she summarises the latest news on European migration policies.
Adoption of the concept of "safe third countries" and the European list of "safe countries of origin": facilitation of deportations and infringement of the right to asylum
On 10 February 2026, the European Parliament approved a legislative text extendingthe (…)

In this collective statement launched on the initiative of the PICUM network and co-signed by Migreurop, more than 80 European organizations protest against the return regulation that is currently being negociated, warning that it could expand and normalize immigration raids and surveillance measures across our communities.
The EU is currently negotiating a Deportation (“Return”) Regulation to expand and normalise immigration raids and surveillance measures across our communities. They (…)

Libya L’Orient-le-Jour, “21 bodies of sub-Saharan migrants discovered in a mass grave”, 15 January 2026
In Libya, 21 bodies of migrants were discovered in mid-January in a mass grave in Ajdabiya, in the north-east of the country. According to local authorities, the victims were being held in a farm that had been converted into a detention centre for people on the move. Several survivors, found in critical condition, helped locate the mass grave.
Mass graves are regularly discovered in (…)

On 14 January, a peaceful protest by 175 asylum seekers detained in Harmondsworth and Brook House detention centers in England was violently repressed by law enforcement. The detainees were protesting inhumane detention conditions and their removal to France under the “One in, one out” agreement signed during the summer 2025. Following this event, the detainees wrote reports and an open letter to the European civil society demanding to access their fundamental rights. Migreurop is publishing (…)