For months now, NGOs saving lives in the Mediterranean have had to suffer libels and slander coming from the Italian Justice Department, FRONTEX and the European Far Right. The NGOs are accused of colluding with smugglers, putting people’s lives at risk and acting as pull factors.
At the end of 2016, FRONTEX Agency and European military complex EUNAVFOR Med made the first move with two internal reports in which they accused the NGOs of collusion with the smugglers. In April 2017, the (...)
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Frontex: 10 true/false statements for a better understanding
International law establishes the right to mobility by declaring the right of anyone to leave any country, including their own, and to return to it.
It also protects anyone who is migrating, regardless of their status, against any form of ill-treatment and violation of their rights, including in case of return to “a third country” (non-refoulement principle).
Does the EU’s migration policy meet with these obligations? Is it in line with the current issues regarding international migration? (...)Externalisation across the board: from the EU - Turkey arrangement to Migration Compacts in Africa
Migreurop Brief #5 - April 2017
Control of the external borders of the Schengen area is being relocated outside the EU and increasingly relies on countries of transit and countries of departures, the latter thus acting as sub-contracted border management. Preventing the movement of migrants must thus be achieved through the Neighbourhood Policy, signing various agreements (on cooperation, development assistance, coordinated management of migratory flows or readmission) and new tools such as the Migration Compacts. In (...)
London launch of the report Migrant Detention in the European Union: A Thriving Business Outsourcing and privatization of migrant detention
6pm, Tuesday 28th March at Praxis, Pott Street, London E2 0EF
In the UK, corporations like G4S, Serco, Mitie and Capita make millions locking up migrants in privately run detention centres. Many other less known companies also jostle for contracts in the detention industry, for example providing healthcare, cleaning or construction services. Britain is a pioneer in detention outsourcing, hurtling towards the model of the massive US private prison industry.
But detention outsourcing is also taking off across Europe. This meeting will present a new (...)Asylum down the drain. Intolerable pressure on Tunisia
Lately, Tunisian authorities have been the target of intolerable pressure by Germany and Italy. Within a week, they have been forced to clarify their opposition to the German as well as to the Italian authorities which were allegedly planning to send migrants and refugees back to Tunisia. Domestic security issues appear as a cornerstone in the cooperation framework imposed to Tunisia albeit being attached to a domain which is clearly distinct from it: the right of asylum.
Pushing for the (...)