Deciphering European migration policies
22 September 2016
More powerful than ever and enjoying complete impunity, the EU border management agency has a new name with a reinforced mandate. The European Union has indeed opted for an increase in the means allocated to deportation, control and external cooperation activities, with no regard for the rights of migrants and refugees.
By reshaping Frontex’s mandate - now the “European Border and Coast Guard Agency” – to reinforce the agency’s capacities, the European Union (EU) disrespects (...)
Publications
This section brings together the network’s publications and tools, such as the various editions of the “Atlas of Migration in Europe”, the cartographic work or the collection of Briefs to inform and raise awareness as widely as possible on the network’s major themes or geographical areas of interest.
Articles in this section
The new mandate of Frontex agency The EU obsessed with waging a war against migrants and refugees
In the past three years, the joint campaign Frontexit has denounced the incompatibility of the Frontex agency with the respect of fundamental rights. The establishment of a new European border guard body to replace Frontex, which the European Parliament approved last 6 July, is yet another step further in the war waged by the European Union (EU) against migrants and refugees.
Over a year since the announcement that Frontex agency would be reinforced to address the so-called « migration (...)European Court of Human Rights turns a blind eye on migrants’ life endangerment in Chios
Press release of the Gisti - 28 June 2016
From 22 to 30 May, 2015, the GISTI organised an exploratory mission in the Greek islands of Kios and Lesbos. Three lawyers went there with the primary aim of assessing the migrants’ needs of legal assistance and the possibilities of taking legal action. After a long information collection work, the Gisti decided to initiate a request for emergency measures to the European Court of Human Rights. The appeal was logded on June 16th by 51 Syrian, Afghan, and Iraqi nationals who are forcibly (...)
Steps in the process of externalisation of border controls to Africa, from the Valletta Summit to today
ARCI analysis document - June 2016
In the framework of the discussions in the European Council about the “cooperation with third countries of origin and transit”, ARCI published an analysis document on European and Italian externalisation policies to Africa, in the framework of the adoption of the Migration Compact, that planned to replicate the EU-Turkey agreement to countries of origin and transit.The document focuses on the negative impacts of this externalisation process in three countries: Niger, Sudan and Gambia.
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MEPs must say NO to the new Frontex!
On 6 July, the European Parliament, meeting in plenary, will approve the replacement of Frontex by a European border-guards and coast-guards body. This new agency will actually turn out to be a reinforced version of Frontex agency with more powers, still lacking independent control over its activities, if not human rights violations occurring during operations it is coordinating.
It is very likely that the European parliament will adopt a text which wrongly presents migration as threat to (...)