At a time when the European Council is meeting in Brussels on 26 and 27 October 2023 to discuss the strengthening of Europe’s borders in a world in upheaval, the Migreurop network points out the exorbitant cost of this escalation in security and the overwhelming responsibility of European States in the constant endangerment of migrants, who are trying to exercise their right to mobility at the cost of their lives.
For more than 30 years, the fight against so-called "illegal" immigration (…)

Joint statement

The European Union Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act) will regulate the development and use of ‘high-risk’ AI, and aims to promote the uptake of ‘trustworthy AI’ whilst protecting the rights of people affected by AI systems.
However, in its original proposal, the EU AI Act does not adequately address and prevent the harms stemming from the use of AI in the migration context. Whilst states and institutions often promote AI in terms of benefits for wider society, for marginalised (…)

On 23 September 2020, the European Commission proposed a "New Pact on Migration and Asylum" which was supposed to renew European migration policies. Far from representing a new deal, the orientation and the measures advocated in this Pact are in reality a continuation of the repressive and security-oriented policies implemented by European institutions and their member states since the late 1990s. More than thirty years later, the objective remains the same: to see as few exiles as possible (…)

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 (…)