Since the 1990s, the European Union has embarked upon the development of the « external » dimension of its immigration and asylum policy, also known as « externalisation process ». Several means, operations and instruments have been implemented for the purpose of making its neighbours (more or less close) take charge of controlling migration flows. Among these instruments, there is a figure that has become one of the linchpins of externalisation : the readmission agreement.
In fact, member (…)

Second Migreurop annual report on violation of human rights at borders. 2009-2010

The report of the international meeting organised by Migreurop on the 27th of November 2009

Press release

Press release of Euro Meditarranean Human Rights Network (EMHRN) and Migreurop

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 the (…)