Mapping as a means to denounce the detention of migrants in Europe and beyond

393. This is the number of closed camps detaining migrants that appear on the closethecamps.org website launched in December 2013. These camps have all been in use between 2011 and 2013, and are located in European Union (EU) Member States, EU candidate countries, those covered by the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) and those collaborating in the implementation of European migration policy.
These figures only reflect detention in close camps - i.e. sites where migrants are totally (…)

A critical geography of migration policies

Since the mid-1980s, European countries continue to strengthen immigration controls at their borders, as well as in transit countries. As a result, migrants’ routes become more and more dangerous and the poorest population of the planet is assigned to “house arrest”.
In 2013 it wouldn’t be possible for an Atlas on European Union (EU) asylum and immigration policies to ignore the dramatic situations permanently ongoing at its borders. Every year, hundreds of exiles die, by drowning, by (…)

Fifth Edition of the Encampment Map

In attachment, the fifth edition of the "Encampment Map", a tool that Migreurop uses since 2003 to list immigration detention sites in Europe and beyond.