The third mobilization – launched in the framework of the Open Access Nowcampaign on October 15 2014 and aimed at denouncing migrants’ detention and the violations of their rights – ends.
Civil society organizations, journalists and parliamentarians visited six-teen camps in France, Belgium, Spain and Italy.
The right to access camps remains subject to the discretion of the authorities: journalists were left at the door thirteen times out of sixteen. Partial access to these places confirms (...)
Detention
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No to the wall of shame in Calais!
Is France going to have its very own Ceuta and Melilla in Calais, 12 years after the closure of the Sangatte refugee camp? The growing number of migrants who have been in the Calais area for a few months is leading our rulers to take a dangerous step that contravenes migrant freedom and respect for their rights.
The migrants undeniably have the right to be in Calais. Their home countries – Afghanistan, Eritrea, Iraq, Libya, Sudan and Syria, in particular – bear witness to it. They are (...)The hidden face of immigration detention camps in Europe
Report of the campaign Open Access Now
Since the 1990s, detention has become one of the main tools to manage migrant populations in Europe and beyond. The only reason for such deprivation of liberty is the failure to comply with — generally unjust — rules on border crossing and/or stay. Detention is a permanent source of violation of migrants’ rights. Behind the stated aim of streamlining the management of migratory flows, the institutionalisation of migrant detention leads to the criminalisation of those considered undesirable, (...)
European borders: controls, detention and deportations
Second Migreurop annual report on violation of human rights at borders. 2009-2010
Open Letter to the candidates for the 6th June 2009 European elections
Since its foundation, Migreurop has denounced the consequences of the EU policies that use detention of migrants as the main tool to control migratory flows. Deprivation of liberty for someone whose crime is to try to live or survive in another country is highly questionable. Moreover, detention places are places of dehumanization where many abuses, human rights violations and acts of violence take place. The recent riots in detention centers for migrants in Malta, Italy and France since (...)