Brief Migreurop #3 - 3rd edition, December 2021

Although criticism from NGOs has been ignored for many years, today Frontex is under the spotlight. Since it began operating in 2005, the European border and coast guard agency has played a growing role in the implementation of the European Union’s (EU) security-driven migration policy. Frontex has been hailed for a long time by European institutions which have relentlessly increased its competences for 15 years in the areas of control and expulsions, as well as its budget (which has risen (…)

Brief #13 - June 2021

Covid-19 has deepened structural inequalities. As a result, migrants from countries of the global South have been severely impacted by the pandemic and the measures aimed at curtailing its spread. People whose situation has been made illegal, displaced persons and those fleeing war or trying to get across borders to improve their lot have been hard hit by border closures. No longer able to “go home” and self-isolate, these people have endured a new form of warfare waged against them, in (…)

In the Channel, as elsewhere, European migration policies are killing and hindering the right of every person to move freely

On 24 November 2021, yet another shipwreck claimed the lives of at least 27 people trying to reach the UK from France, adding to the list of more than 300 people who have died since 1999 at this border. Like the Mediterranean, where more than 38,000 migrants have died or gone missing since the early 2000s, the English Channel has been turned into a graveyard by murderous European migration policies.
The horror of this tragedy is compounded by the authorities’ unbearable hypocrisy, and (…)

Since its creation, the Migreurop network has highlighted the harmful effects of the European Union’s border management policy placed in the way of people’s freedom of movement.
Yet, this freedom exists for a part of the world’s citizens who, by chance resulting from their place of birth, have a passport or obtain visas without difficulty that allow them to easily cross borders. Accepting that others should be denied this means approving the existence of a world with two tracks, entailing (…)