Migration Control

This monthly press review by Migration Control covers Eurafrican migration control, migration and displacement in African countries and news on the European border regime.
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All Africa
18.05.24 TNH: IOM’s digital tool aims to speed up migrant removals, but at what cost?: For EU countries that have long wrestled with the difficulty of deporting migrants, a digital tool created by the UN’s migration agency, (…)

Libya InfoMigrants, ’Libye : plus de 300 Subsahariens bénéficient d’un retour volontaire vers le Tchad et le Mali depuis la ville de Sebha’, 30 May 2025
The IOM organised two ’voluntary return’ flights from the town of Sebha in Libya on 26 and 28 May 2025 to Mali and Chad, sending more than 300 Malians and Chadians back to their countries of origin. According to the Libyan Ministry of Foreign Affairs, this was the first time a flight of this type had left Sebha for 15 years. However, the (…)

Opinion piece - co-signed by ANAFÉ, GISTI, JRS France, LA CIMADE

On 12 May, the French Senate will examine a bill aimed at entrusting the French Office for Immigration and Integration (OFII) with the task of providing legal information in administrative detention centres (CRA), places of deprivation of liberty where people are detained because they do not have papers. The aim of this proposal is to remove associations from these centres by abolishing their role in helping people to exercise their rights. If adopted, this text would deal a fatal blow to (…)

Algeria TV5 Monde, ’Algérie : plus de 1800 migrants expulsés à la frontière avec le Niger’, 25 April 2025
The Algerian authorities have returned more than 1,800 people on the move without right of residence to the border town of Assamaka (Niger), bringing to 4,000 the number of people pushed back during the month of April. However, these figures only take into account people registered on the Niger side: they could therefore be higher if they included people pushed back who immediately (…)

Declaration from the Tunisian Forum for Economic and Social Rights (FTDES)

The European Commission has issued a consolidated list of “safe third countries of origin,” which will be ratified by the Council and the European Parliament, making it binding on all EU countries.
The creation of the “safe countries of origin” list is part of the policies of externalizing European migration policies, limiting asylum, facilitating and accelerating deportation and expulsion procedures, and becoming a political bargaining chip to whitewash undemocratic regimes to reward them (…)