Taking the opportunity of the Euro-African Summit at La Valette, on Nov. 11-12 2015, Migreurop network strongly emphasizes that, under the false pretense of cooperation and development, UE bargains with African states to subcontract the control of its borders, to deter the possibilities of free circulation, and to prioritize detention and deportation of illegalized migrants.
Just a few weeks after the global sensation caused by the photo of the corpse of young Aylan Kurdi, washed up on the (...)
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
"Frontex: between Greece and Turkey: the border of denial"
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 (...)
Search and Rescue in Central Mediterranean Sea
Report of an observation mission in Sicily carried out, between the 1st of February and the 8th of June 2015, by Sabine Llewellyn, volunteering for the network Migreurop within the NGO ARCI to support the activities of Watch the Med, in the frame of the programmes of Echanges et Partenariats.
"Search and Rescue in the Central Mediterranean Sea" is the result of a wide collaboration and analyzes the increasingly security-oriented context and recent evolutions of rescue operations in the (...)Bridges, not weapons!
An appeal for a migrant, asylum seeker and refugee reception policy
It is estimated that over 20,000 people have lost their lives along Europe’s borders over the past 20 years, with almost 2,000 of them perishing in the Mediterranean since the start of 2015. The Member States of the European Union (EU) will address the issue of these repeated tragedies at the 25-6 June European Council meeting.
Our organisations cannot accept the fact that the EU’s institutions are not prioritizing saving lives. On the contrary, the EU and its Member States had no trouble (...)Deaths in the Mediterranean: the European Council’s dishonour
Brussels, 24 April 2015
23 April 2015 was a terrible day: the European Council, that was at last to “take action” as regards a “tragic” situation in the Mediterranean, merely attempted to shelter the European Union and its Member States from migrants by toughening border protection.
The European Union Heads of Government, who met with great ado, had but one message for those thousands of human beings – men, women and children – who risk death and often find it, attempting to reach a place to (...)