On both shores of the Mediterranean, a securitarian view of migrations is shared. The externalisation of border management, the strengthening of surveillance systems through Frontex and Eurosur, as well as the instrumental use of public development aid to try to keep populations in their home countries, remain the key means for its implementation.
Following the 4th EU-Africa summit that was held on 2-3 April 2014 in Brussels, the heads of state and of the governments of the EU and Africa, (...)
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Tunisia-EU Mobility Partnership: a Forced March towards the Externalization of Borders
On 3 March, Tunisia and the European Union signed a ‘mobility partnership’.
Over the last two years, the signatory organizations have repeatedly expressed their concerns about this partnership. We hereby reiterate them and condemn the lack of transparency in the negotiation process which did not involve civil society actors, many of whom have been active on issues directly relevant to the agreement. The implementation of such agreement is particularly worrying in the current Tunisian (...)closethecamps.org
Mapping as a means to denounce the detention of migrants in Europe and beyond
393. This is the number of closed camps detaining migrants that appear on the closethecamps.org website launched in December 2013. These camps have all been in use between 2011 and 2013, and are located in European Union (EU) Member States, EU candidate countries, those covered by the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) and those collaborating in the implementation of European migration policy.
These figures only reflect detention in close camps - i.e. sites where migrants are totally (...)European Parliament: do not vote in favour of a EU/Turkey readmission agreement!
On 26 February, the European Parliament will vote on the “EU-Turkey agreement on the readmission of persons residing without authorisation”. The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network (EMHRN) and Migreurop call upon the European Parliament to vote against this agreement until the full respect of rights of migrants and refugees can be guaranteed at all stages of the readmission procedure.
This agreement would allow the EU and Turkey to return foreign nationals irregularly entering and/or (...)The EU must suspend its agreement with Ukraine on expulsion of migrants
The situation is far from stable in Ukraine, following the death of dozens of demonstrators at the hands of the forces of order and the fall of President Yanukovych. In towns such as Lviv, near the Polish border, arms stores in police stations have been looted and police units are in a state of paralysis. While the bloodbath has halted, the country has been torn apart in three months of crisis, its economy is weakened, partition looms, and the democratic context is very uncertain.
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