Videos of the Crossborder Forum study day (10 November 2021)

The UK’s border with France and Belgium has been increasingly visibilised over the last year, particularly with the increased number of crossings of the Channel in small boats and the ever-worsening situation of people stranded in this cross-border area.
This study day brought together activists, NGO representatives and researchers from different sectors and disciplines to discuss various aspects of border-building, including new forms of control, but also ways in which different actors (…)

Crossborder Forum - Study Day, 10 November 2021 (summary)

The UK’s border with France and Belgium has been increasingly visibilised over the last year, particularly with the increased number of crossings of the Channel in small boats and the ever-worsening situation of people stranded in this cross-border area.
This study day brought together activists, NGO representatives and researchers from different sectors and disciplines to discuss various aspects of border-building, including new forms of control, but also ways in which different actors (…)

Collective action

For seven nights and eight days now, refugees and asylum seekers have been demonstrating in front of the offices of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) in Zarzis and Medenine, in the south of Tunisia. As more and more of them are being expelled from the accommodation centers, they have started to denounce their abandonment by the UN agency, which is supposed to provide protection.
Nearly 200 individuals – women, men and children – dare to make their suffering and their (…)

Since 2014, and the Tarajal massacre, 6 February has become a day of commemoration for all those who have died or disappeared at the borders, victims - on their journey of exile - of murderous migration policies.
In addition to the traditional March for Dignity in Ceuta on 5 February (9th edition), many commemorative events are planned in Africa and Europe on 6 February to pay homage to these victims whom we do not forget, to demand justice, and to recall that migration is a right. (…)