Paris, March 16th, 2016
At a further summit meeting in Brussels on the 17 and 18 March, the EU and Turkey will adopt an agreement intended to resolve what is wrongly described as the ‘migrant crisis’. This is a plan above all that will allow the European Union to push refugees back beyond EU borders, and to subcontract its obligations to Turkey. Thus will members states flee their responsibilities in defiance of the right to asylum. Migreurop, a European and African network that unites some (...)
Publications
This section brings together the network’s publications and tools, such as the various editions of the “Atlas of Migration in Europe”, the cartographic work or the collection of Briefs to inform and raise awareness as widely as possible on the network’s major themes or geographical areas of interest.
Articles in this section
As Aleppo is crushed under bombs
UE member states are calling on Turkey to control their borders
While residents of the Aleppo region are forced to flee under a shower of bombs, European governments’ primary concern is to confine them as far away as possible from their borders. For this purpose, they rely on Turkey, although it is already a party to the geopolitical battleground around Syria. While tens of thousands of refugees are stranded at the Turkish border, Recep Tayyip Erdogan is negotiating with desperate European leaders the recognition of Turkey as a "safe country" (which (...)
Calais declaration
We must refuse the encampment of foreign citizens and the closure of borders
On its ten-year anniversary, the Migreurop network met in Calais last weekend to lend its support to the third-country nationals who are trapped in difficult terrains in the Calais region and exchange views with the activists and organisations who are involved in the struggles against policies of hounding of migrants by the French and British states as well as the European Union (EU).
These three days of debates with militants who came from all over Europe, Turkey and Africa flowed towards (...)10th anniversary of Frontex 10 measures which put fundamental rights at risk
Frontexit Press Release – 10 December 2015
On this International Human Rights Day, member organisations of the Frontexit Campaign alert the authorities and the public opinion on the dangers of reinforcing the European agency Frontex. They draw attention to 10 upcoming measures, like a set of poisoned chalices, which contribute to the violation of the fundamental rights of migrants and refugees at the expense of their reception and protection.
At a time when fear guides European choices and when measures guaranteeing the “security” (...)Appeal for support
November 2015
Dear friend / colleague,
For some months, developments in the news and the movements of solidarity have highlighted the failure of European policies on migration, which Migreurop has long exposed. Our growing activity costs money. In order to strengthen our financial independence, we are turning to you.
Our network of militants and researchers was founded in 2002, when individuals and organisations united when the Sangatte camp in Calais was ‘closed’ to argue that Calais was (...)