This short, educational video was produced by Migreurop and CCFD-Terre Solidaire.

Since its creation, Migreurop has been documenting the externalisation of European migration policies. The aim of these externalisation policies is to keep people on the move as far away from Europe as possible, whatever the consequences for migrants’ rights. To this end, the EU and its member states bargain with so-called "third" countries (of origin and transit), to which they subcontract the management of migratory movements. In so doing, they shirk their obligations under the (…)

Since its creation, the Migreurop network has highlighted the harmful effects of the European Union’s border management policy placed in the way of people’s freedom of movement.
Yet, this freedom exists for a part of the world’s citizens who, by chance resulting from their place of birth, have a passport or obtain visas without difficulty that allow them to easily cross borders. Accepting that others should be denied this means approving the existence of a world with two tracks, entailing (…)

The devastating shipwrecks in the Mediterranean Sea in April 2015 and the European Union’s "unwillingness to take action" in response have highlighted the failure of European asylum and reception policies. Faced with the crisis of humanity and solidarity, the EU should have opened its borders and fulfilled its responsibilities for sea rescue operations. Instead, however, the EU has opted to further strengthen its external borders by adopting the hotspot approach with a frame-work that gives (…)

Migreurop video for the 2019 European elections

The last few years have been characterised by growing hostility towards migrants, whom Europe now simply refuses to accept, even when they are seeking protection. They are considered undesirable on European soil, where right-wing and far-right populism is on the rise, and there is increased repression of them and their supporters.
In the run-up to the European elections in May 2019, the Migreurop network is mobilising against violations of the rights of people on the move trying to reach (…)