To many activists for foreigners’ rights the mediatization of the refugee camp of Sangatte during the year 2000 appeared as a perfect illustration of the absurdity of EU migration policies. The effects of obstacles to freedom of movement and the refusal of receiving migrants and refugees became fully visible. While usually invisible because dispersed along borders or because hidden, they instantly became visible because of their concentration in the only (non)-place where they were (...)

The network relies on the expertise of its members (50 associations and 44 individual members), present in 17 countries in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. They put their different skills at the service of Migreurop, meeting regularly to exchange and build a shared analysis of the consequences of European migration policies, and thus develop synergies and common strategies to defend the fundamental rights of exiles.
List of Migreurop members : (...)

Call for the closure of camps for migrants and for freedom of movement

Call for the closure of camps for migrants, in Europe and beyond 2010
In member states of the European Union, as well as in neighboring countries (Libya, Morocco, Turkey, Ukraine) and beyond (Mauritania, Lebanon), the presence of an ever increasing number of zones of detention conceals policies and practices contrary to international commitments which some of these states are bound to (the United Nation Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, the International Convention on the (...)

In member states of the European Union, as well as in neighboring countries (Libya, Morocco, Turkey, Ukraine) and beyond (Mauritania, Lebanon), the presence of an ever increasing number of zones of detention conceals policies and practices contrary to international commitments which some of these states are bound to (the United Nation Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, the International Convention on the Rights of the Child, etc.). In Cyprus, Greece, Italy, Malta, migrants are (...)