The devastating shipwrecks in the Mediterranean Sea in April 2015 and the European Union’s "unwillingness to take action" in response have highlighted the failure of European asylum and reception policies. Faced with the crisis of humanity and solidarity, the EU should have opened its borders and fulfilled its responsibilities for sea rescue operations. Instead, however, the EU has opted to further strengthen its external borders by adopting the hotspot approach with a frame-work that gives (...)
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Video "No to the war on exiled people"
Migreurop video for the 2019 European elections
The last few years have been characterised by growing hostility towards migrants, whom Europe now simply refuses to accept, even when they are seeking protection. They are considered undesirable on European soil, where right-wing and far-right populism is on the rise, and there is increased repression of them and their supporters.
In the run-up to the European elections in May 2019, the Migreurop network is mobilising against violations of the rights of people on the move trying to reach (...)International Meeting "Hotspots" and "processing centres" : The new forms of the European policy of externalisation, encampment and sorting of exiles, Calais
Videos of the interventions
In spring 2015, after the arrival and shipwrecks of thousands peoples on its coasts, the European Union (EU) adopted the "hotspot approach" and "processing centres",“new” tools and terminology supposedly able to address the poorly named “migration crisis”.
In order to exchange on these EU projects and their effects which can already be observed in a number of regions, the network members and their local partners organised on the 12th December 2015 in Calais an international public meeting (...)