Joint declaration

Two years after the shipwreck of 24 November 2021, as injustice and deaths at the border continue, we stand together to call for a world free from border violence.
On 24 November 2021, at least 33 people in a dinghy tried to reach the United Kingdom from the coast of Dunkirk. The 33 people came mainly from Iraqi Kurdistan, but also from Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Iran, Egypt, Somalia, and Vietnam.
Three hours into the Channel crossing, the boat found itself in distress. At 1:48 am, (…)

Collective opinion piece published in Le Monde on 24 November 2022

One year after the shipwreck that led to the drowning of at least 27 people, as a new Franco-British agreement is signed, a group of 65 French, British and Belgian associations (including Migreurop) raise unacceptable failures by French and British rescue services in a collective opinion piece published in Le Monde on 24 November 2022
On November 24, 2021, around 2pm, a fishing boat spotted dozens of bodies floating in the freezing waters of the Channel. One by one, lifeless bodies were (…)

In the framework of session n°24 of the programme "Echanges & Partenariats" (member of the IPAM network), Pierre Menzildjian went to Calais on behalf of Migreurop within the Platform of Migrant Support (PSM) from September 2021 to April 2022. During this five-month mission, he was able to investigate the evolution of the increasing militarisation of the UK-French border, as well as the impact of the Brexit on the rights of exiles.
Following the Brexit, and despite some divergences (…)

Crossborder Forum - Study Day, 10 November 2021 (summary)

The UK’s border with France and Belgium has been increasingly visibilised over the last year, particularly with the increased number of crossings of the Channel in small boats and the ever-worsening situation of people stranded in this cross-border area.
This study day brought together activists, NGO representatives and researchers from different sectors and disciplines to discuss various aspects of border-building, including new forms of control, but also ways in which different actors (…)

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 (…)