The latest report of the FRONTEXIT Campaign, “Frontex between Greece and Turkey: The Border of Denial”. At the Greek-Turkish border, the European Agency for controlling the external borders, Frontex, is taking part in a process that prevents refugees from benefitting from international protection. This report underlines the dramatic consequences of the intensification of surveillance at that border (push-backs, lack of access to the asylum procedure, physical and verbal violence, etc.), and (…)

Migreurop, the EMHRN and the FIDH in the framework of the Frontexit campaign released a report on Frontex deployment at Greek and Turkish borders.

The tragic limits of European migration policies

FIDH, EMHRN, Migreurop press release

Euro Mediterranean Human Rights Network (EMHRN), Migreurop, Welcome to Europe, Youth without Borders (Jugendliche ohne Grenzen – JOG) and their afghan friends and members, who had been detained in the hell of Pagani in 2009 and before as minors and returned to Lesvos these days and Migreurop jointly wrote a press release on Lesvos Island and the newly centre opened on the Island.
The recent tragedies in Lampedusa have highlighted, once again, the prevailing indifference of the EU toward (…)

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Throughout the 20th century, Greece was a country of emigration, counting only around 40,000 immigrants from Pakistan, the Philippines, Egypt and Morocco. From the middle of the 1980s, and particularly following the fall of communist regimes in the Balkans and Eastern Europe in 1989, Greece became a country of immigration (according to the Καθημερινή of 6/1/1991 the number of foreigners is 500,000). Since 1990, a large number of mainly Albanian migrants (who (…)