Migreurop is part of the Abolish Frontex international campaign, launched on June 9th, to end the mandate of the European border and coast guard agency - a key actor in the EU’s war on people who move - and the EU’s border regime!
Over 740 people have died so far this year 2021 trying to cross the Mediterranean, looking for a place of safety. The EU’s border regime forced them to take dangerous migration routes, often on unseaworthy vessels; it enlisted neighbouring countries to stop them on (...)
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Blackmail in the Balkans: how the EU is externalising its asylum policies
Sophie-Anne Bisiaux (Migreurop) and Lorenz Naegeli (independent researcher)
The development of a system for collecting data on people on the move in the Balkans highlights the overall orientation of the EU’s migration policies: outsourcing migration management at all costs, to the detriment of provisions for reception. In order to keep those considered as "undesirable" at a distance, would the European Union go so far as to extend beyond its borders the ‘Dublin’ mechanism for allocating state responsibility for asylum claims, at the risk of further aggravating the (...)
Webinar "Militarisation of borders and criminalisation of solidarity"
Organized by Migreurop and Casa da gente de Barcelona on the occasion of the ESFM 2021
On the occasion of the European Social Forum on Migration, Migreurop and Casa da gente de Barcelona organise a webinar on 11 March from 3pm to 5 pm (GMT+1) on the militarisation of borders and the criminalisation of solidarity ("human rights and migration" axis) with the participation of Chris Jones (Statewatch/Migreurop), Claudia Charles (Gisti/Migreurop), Chloé Portais (Borderline Europe) and Juliana Wahlgren (European network against racism-ENAR).
The presentation of migration as a (...)Data and new technologies, the hidden face of mobility control
Brief Migreurop #12 - December 2020
In a July 2020 report, the European Agency for the Operational Management of Large-Scale IT Systems (eu-Lisa) presented artificial intelligence as a “priority technology”. The report underlines the advantages of artificial intelligence (AI) in the field of migration and borders thanks, amongst other things, to facial recognition technology.
AI is increasingly privileged by public actors, EU institutions and private actors, but also by the UNHCR and IOM. EU agencies like Frontex and eu-Lisa (...)State xenophobia and criminalisation of solidarity in Cyprus
KISA is again under attack by government
KISA, a Cypriot member of the Migreurop network, is once again in the government’s sights for its action in favour of people in exile. Since 14 December 2020, KISA has been removed from the Register of Associations, pretexting that it did not comply timely with the administrative procedures as per the “Law on Associations and Foundations” of 2017.
This is not the first time that KISA has been subjected to the relentlessness of the authorities and part of the media, because it denounces the (...)