On June 10, the “Coalition internationale des Sans Papiers et Migrants” (CISPM) launched – together with NGOs and coalitions from France, Italy and Spain – an international call for the end of sorting, filing, tracking and detention of foreigners within the European Union and at its borders and for the closure of detention centres and “hotspots”.
All the research and on the spot observation lead to the conclusion that the deprivation of liberty, whatever form it takes, leads to the (…)

On 18 June 2010, the Migreurop network decided to make a stand against the detention of foreigners.
Launched in 2011, the ‘Open Access Now’ campaign aimed to publicise the unseen realities of immigration detention, its excesses and the rights violations that flow from it. The campaign demanded total transparency and unconditional access to information and to locations where people are deprived of their liberty, for journalists and for civil society.
In order to alert civil society and (…)

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Launched in the UK, where demos have been organised in front of almost all detention centres this Saturday, May 7, a call for an international mobilisation against immigration detention and deportations was diffused in over ten countries, including France.
But in Calais, the demonstration in front of the Coquelles detention centre was forbidden by prefectoral order because of the "state of emergency".
To sign the petition "For freedom of expression in Calais", addressed to the regional (…)

We must refuse the encampment of foreign citizens and the closure of borders

On its ten-year anniversary, the Migreurop network met in Calais last weekend to lend its support to the third-country nationals who are trapped in difficult terrains in the Calais region and exchange views with the activists and organisations who are involved in the struggles against policies of hounding of migrants by the French and British states as well as the European Union (EU).
These three days of debates with militants who came from all over Europe, Turkey and Africa flowed towards (…)

The third mobilization – launched in the framework of the Open Access Nowcampaign on October 15 2014 and aimed at denouncing migrants’ detention and the violations of their rights – ends.
Civil society organizations, journalists and parliamentarians visited six-teen camps in France, Belgium, Spain and Italy.
The right to access camps remains subject to the discretion of the authorities: journalists were left at the door thirteen times out of sixteen. Partial access to these places (…)