Collective action

Between 2021 and March 2022, 23% of visa applications by citizens of Maghreb countries would have been refused as a retaliatory measure against local governments’ refusal to repatriate their nationals in “irregular situations.” Thus, under the pretext of combating undocumented migration, the Minister of the Interior ]] and the French authorities do not even care about the discriminatory character of this decision, which is nothing less than a collective punishment that indiscriminately (…)