Deciphering European migration policies
MBB is an educational, interactive and multimedia tool. Designed by the collective of artists Étrange Miroir and inaugurated in Brussels in 2015, it aims to share the knowledge accumulated by the Migreurop network over the last 10 years on obstacles, injustices and migrants’ rights violations in transit countries, at the borders of European Union and in Europe itself.
Created from the analyses and campaigns carried out by Migreurop (Open Access Now, Close the camps and Frontexit), the (...)
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Dead and missing at sea Information guide for families and their supporters
A publication by Boats4People
Boats 4 People published on the 12th of May 2017, during the Sabir Festival, an information guide for the families of migrants –and their supporters- who died or went missing while crossing Central Mediterranean sea on their way to Italy.
This guide is now available in Italian, English, French, Arabic and Tigrinya (see also attachments below).
According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) since 2014, more than 12 000 people lost their lives in the Mediterranean (...)The War on Migrants Continues - NGOs harassed in the Mediterranean
The Italian government, supported by EU member states, has reached a new step in the war waged against migrants, criminalizing the NGOs whose task is to rescue them in the Mediterranean.
Failure to assist persons in distress and “let die policy” : Identitarian activists to the rescue of Europe border-control policy
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 (...)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? (...)
