Joint Press Release Migreurop, EuroMed Rights and FIDH
At the end of 2016, Italy – supported by the EU – initiated a dual strategy to put an end to migrant arrivals from the central Mediterranean: criminalize the rescue of people, and once again make Libya Europe’s policeman. Both dimensions became more pronounced during the summer of 2017, with the imposition of a "code of conduct" on NGOs and the sequestration of vessels of recalcitrant organizations who did not sign up to the code. At the (...)
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Niger: interference and neo-colonialism in the name of development
Migreurop Brief #6 - October 2017
On 10 October 2016, Niamey welcomed German Chancellor Angela Merkel with pomp and ceremony. She made no secret of the fact that “security” and “immigration” were her two main concerns. Her purpose was to implement the endlessly repeated “recommendations”: Niger, a “transit country” should receive support in order to play its part as migration filter. Programmes to “reinforce local institutions” would make it possible to clearly distinguish between “refugees” – to be protected in situ – and “migrants” (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)Encampement, detention and sorting: desolation(s) and mobilisation(s) at the EU borders
Rabat, November 26, 2016
Since 2015, in response to an alleged "migratory crisis", the European Union (EU) has strengthened its arsenal of repressive and security measures against migrants.
Detention and cooperation with countries of transit and origin of migrants – the true pillars of European border control policies since twenty years – are also at the heart of the “hotspot approach” promoted by the European Commission in its Migration Agenda in May 2015.
In order to multiply the expulsions of the boat people who (...)