6pm, Tuesday 28th March at Praxis, Pott Street, London E2 0EF

In the UK, corporations like G4S, Serco, Mitie and Capita make millions locking up migrants in privately run detention centres. Many other less known companies also jostle for contracts in the detention industry, for example providing healthcare, cleaning or construction services. Britain is a pioneer in detention outsourcing, hurtling towards the model of the massive US private prison industry.
But detention outsourcing is also taking off across Europe. This meeting will present a new (…)

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 (…)

Outsourcing and privatisation of migrant detention

Study carried out by Lydie Arbogast on behalf of Migreurop with the support of the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung (Brussels Office)

Migreurop Brief #4 - October 2016

Hotspots are generally presented as a key component of the European Union (EU)’s response to the “migration crisis”, but the meaning of this expression has yet to be defined.
For those who support an essentially restrictive European asylum policy, a “crisis” occurs when large numbers of exiles arrive in the EU. If they manage to enter, the Community structure must be reinforced by further restricting entry into countries where they might benefit from the rights safeguarded by the 1951 (…)

Scenes of desolation at the EU borders

Migreurop publishes the sixth edition of the "Map of Camps", a tool used since 2003 to publicize and denounce the proliferation of immigration detention types and sites in Europe and beyond.
Today, as in the past, many exiles are seeing their hopes dashed in closed camps in European countries, which on the one hand claim to be models of human rights, while on the other, demand that migrants remain outside the European Union (EU). Using the pretext of “massive” arrivals, the EU and (…)