Outsourcing and privatisation of migrant detention
Study carried out by Lydie Arbogast on behalf of Migreurop with the support of the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung (Brussels Office)
Outsourcing and privatisation of migrant detention
Study carried out by Lydie Arbogast on behalf of Migreurop with the support of the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung (Brussels Office)
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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The latest report of the FRONTEXIT Campaign, “Frontex between Greece and Turkey: The Border of Denial”. At the Greek-Turkish border, the European Agency for controlling the external borders, Frontex, is taking part in a process that prevents refugees from benefitting from international protection. This report underlines the dramatic consequences of the intensification of surveillance at that border (push-backs, lack of access to the asylum procedure, physical and verbal violence, etc.), and (...)
Report of an observation mission in Sicily carried out, between the 1st of February and the 8th of June 2015, by Sabine Llewellyn, volunteering for the network Migreurop within the NGO ARCI to support the activities of Watch the Med, in the frame of the programmes of Echanges et Partenariats.
"Search and Rescue in the Central Mediterranean Sea" is the result of a wide collaboration and analyzes the increasingly security-oriented context and recent evolutions of rescue operations in the (...)
Report of the campaign Open Access Now
Since the 1990s, detention has become one of the main tools to manage migrant populations in Europe and beyond. The only reason for such deprivation of liberty is the failure to comply with — generally unjust — rules on border crossing and/or stay. Detention is a permanent source of violation of migrants’ rights. Behind the stated aim of streamlining the management of migratory flows, the institutionalisation of migrant detention leads to the criminalisation of those considered undesirable, (...)