In the framework of session n°24 of the programme "Echanges & Partenariats" (member of the IPAM network), Pierre Menzildjian went to Calais on behalf of Migreurop within the Platform of Migrant Support (PSM) from September 2021 to April 2022. During this five-month mission, he was able to investigate the evolution of the increasing militarisation of the UK-French border, as well as the impact of the Brexit on the rights of exiles.
Following the Brexit, and despite some divergences (...)
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
UK/Rwanda deal: externalising asylum to Africa, a massive deterrent in Europe
In an urgent stay order of 14 June 2022, the European Court of Human Rights reminded the UK that it is still subject to international asylum law. Whether in the United Kingdom or in the Member States of the European Union, it is no longer the time to welcome people and the race to return them is in full swing.
Externalising asylum to Rwanda was one of the main measures of the UK’s "immigration plan", presented on 14 April 2022, and it was supposed to dissuade "irregular" crossings of the (...)It is not enough to change the Director, Frontex must be abolished!
The EU and its member states must sanction Frontex’s illegal practices and put an end to impunity!
On 29 April 2022, the Executive Director of the European border and coast guard agency, Frontex, Fabrice Leggeri (in office since 2015), resigned.
Since October 2020 , Frontex has faced numerous accusations of complacency or complicity in push back operations in the Aegean Sea and Eastern Europe, but also of serious dysfunction and bad governance. So much so that numerous investigations have been carried out by the European institutions (European Parliament, European Ombudsman, EU Court of (...)Spain and Morocco renew security cooperation agreement linking organised crime and "irregular" immigration
The cooperation agreement on security and the fight against crime, drawn up between the two countries in February 2019, will enter into force on 30 April 2022.
New stage in Moroccan-Spanish bilateral relations at the expense of exiles
This agreement, based on the Treaty of Friendship, Good Neighbourliness and Cooperation between the Kingdom of Spain and the Kingdom of Morocco, signed in Rabat on 4 July 1991, represents a new stage in bilateral relations between the two countries.
After (...)Dead and Missing Migrants, 2014 - 2021
Map from Nicolas Lambert
This map shows the number of dead or missing people while migrating in this geographical area during the year 2021. Among them, there were at least 213 children.
Although there is no official count of the number of people who have died in migration, many projects have been launched since the 1990s to report on the deadly consequences of European migration policies. This map was made using data from the "Missing Migrants" project initiated from 2014 by the IOM.
On this map, each point (...)