On 18 June 2010, the Migreurop network decided to make a stand against the detention of foreigners.
Launched in 2011, the ‘Open Access Now’ campaign aimed to publicise the unseen realities of immigration detention, its excesses and the rights violations that flow from it. The campaign demanded total transparency and unconditional access to information and to locations where people are deprived of their liberty, for journalists and for civil society.
In order to alert civil society and (...)
2016
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Against prejudices and in support of Migreurop: Claire Rodier’s book “Migrants and refugees”
Answers to indecisive, anxious and reluctant persons
The arrival of significant numbers of refugees and migrants in Europe after an exhausting route, as well as the numerous deaths in the Mediterranean Sea have often moved and “shocked” Europe’s population. However, after the first compassion and solidarity impulses, concerns and hesitations emerge, and many questions arise: what is the difference between refugees and migrants? Do France and Europe have the capacity to welcome this influx of migrants, given the economic crisis? Are walls useful? (...)
For the freedom of expression in Calais
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Launched in the UK, where demos have been organised in front of almost all detention centres this Saturday, May 7, a call for an international mobilisation against immigration detention and deportations was diffused in over ten countries, including France.
But in Calais, the demonstration in front of the Coquelles detention centre was forbidden by prefectoral order because of the "state of emergency".
To sign the petition "For freedom of expression in Calais", addressed to the regional (...)Frontex 2.0: The European Union’s armed wing - Further reinforced and still untouchable
Frontexit Press Release - 27 April 2016
By August 2016, the European institutions aim to replace Frontex by a new coast guards and border-guards agency which will further jeopardise the rights of migrants and refugees. This new mandate reinforces the serious concerns expressed by the FRONTEXIT campaign since its establishment: deter, control and keep away men, women and children deemed undesirable while they are exerting their right to leave any country and the right to seek asylum.
Almost exactly one year after the terrible (...)Death by Rescue
Forensic Oceanography/Watch the Med Report, April 2016
One year after two successive shipwrecks that occurred on the 12 and 18 April of 2015 and led to the death of more than 1,200 migrants, 500 persons are reported missing after their boat capsized last week in the Mediterranean Sea.
Yet again, this shipwreck proves, if there were still need to do so, that surveillance and security obsession override rescue. Even though the European Union (EU) and its Member States pretend to act in order to avoid losses of human lives, the numerous – Frontex, (...)