Migreurop organised on 19 April 2023 a public webinar to analyse the ongoing EU reforms on migration and asylum, and their impacts along the exile routes. This webinar was organised in collaboration with La Cimade, Ciré, CNCD-11.11.11 and Statewatch. The first part of the webinar aims to update information on current EU reforms, including the European Pact on Asylum and Migration (see here Migreurop’s position paper on the subject) and the reform of the Schengen Borders Code. The second part (...)
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
Endless exiles - Migration blackmail along the Balkan route
Mission Report 2021
For more than 20 years, the EU has been developing cooperation with non-member countries (so-called "third countries") to outsource its border control. Identified as departure countries and then as transit countries for migration to the EU, the Balkan countries have been rapidly integrated into the core of this externalisation strategy. This has been particularly the case since the so-called "migration crisis" of 2015, when almost one million persons, mainly from the Middle East, were (...)
Podcast and photo report : The detention camps on the Greek islands of Kos and Leros
The consequences of the "hotspot approach" on the fundamental rights of people on the move
This 7-episode podcast, produced with the "studio son" of la Parole errante demain in the Greek islands of Kos and Leros, lends the voices of migrant people stranded on these islands, as well as of the people working or volunteering alongside them. It highlights and denounces the hotspot approach which only serves to sort, lock up and deport migrant people.
The implementation of the "hotspot approach" by the European Union (EU) in 2015, and the signing of the EU-Turkey migration agreement (...)Voluntary service in Cyprus 2021/2022
As part of session #24 of the Echanges & Partenariats programmes, Hugo Roche Zaradzki, a volunteer on behalf of Migreurop, carried out his mission from October 2021 to March 2022 with KISA, a Cypriot member of the network. He was based in Nicosia and tasked with investigating the migration context in Cyprus, which is particularly hostile to people n the move, with a focus on the right to asylum, the detention of exiles, their criminalisation and that of their supporters.
He has (...)Joint statement on last week’s deaths in the Channel
Collective action
One week after 4 people seeking to reach the UK from France died in a shipwreck, Migreurop joins civil society organisations and activists from the UK, France, Belgium, and beyond to remember those who died and denounce the murderous policies faced by people on the move on both sides of the Channel.
A week ago, news broke that a major rescue operation was underway in the Channel to rescue people from a small boat who were trying to reach safety in the UK. Reports later confirmed that four (...)