On 18 June 2010, the Migreurop network decided to make a stand against the detention of foreigners.
Launched in 2011, the ‘Open Access Now’ campaign aimed to publicise the unseen realities of immigration detention, its excesses and the rights violations that flow from it. The campaign demanded total transparency and unconditional access to information and to locations where people are deprived of their liberty, for journalists and for civil society.
In order to alert civil society and (…)
Initiatives
Migreurop sensibilise la société civile en faisant connaître ses analyses, via l’organisation de différents types d’initiatives : mobilisations en faveur des droits des exilé·e·s, campagnes de sensibilisation de ses membres ou partenaires, conférences, forums sociaux, festivals, projections-débats, exposition MBB etc.
Articles in this section
« Hotspots » and « processing centres »: The new forms of the European policy of sorting, encampment and outsourcing of exiles
Since 2002, the Migreurop network analyses and denounces the encampment policy, a key element of the arsenal used by the European Union (EU) to wage its war against migrants. The Calais region is one of several spaces of police sovereignty where States and European Agencies exonerate themselves from national laws and international conventions in order to block the exiles seeking protection and/or a better life. These exiles, who often put their lives on the line to reach the Franco-British (…)
"Moving Beyond Borders" Exhibition
MBB is an educational, interactive and multimedia tool. Designed by the collective of artists Étrange Miroir and inaugurated in Brussels in 2015, it aims to share the knowledge accumulated by the Migreurop network over the last 10 years on obstacles, injustices and migrants’ rights violations in transit countries, at the borders of European Union and in Europe itself.
Created from the analyses and campaigns carried out by Migreurop (Open Access Now, Close the camps and Frontexit), the (…)Citizen and solidarity Mobilization in Calais / September 19th, 2015
In the frame of the current citizen mobilisation, many associations and citizens from France, the United Kingdom, Belgium, and the Netherlands will participate to the action "Refugees welcome", to be held in Calais on Saturday, September 19th.
Further to the security common statement made by the English and French Home Secretaries, T. May and B. Cazeneuve, the idea is to propose to the citizens, collectives, associations, and personalities, to sign a citizen statement of solidarity, (…)Messengers
A documentary of Hélène CROUZILLAT and Laetitia TURA
“Where are they, all these persons gone but never arrived?”Messengers is on the fragile limit that separate alive migrants and dead ones. This focus on dead people with no tomb questions the ghost part of Europe.
Charlotte Garson for the « Catalogue du Cinéma du Réel », 2014
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/107571334
From the Sahara to Melilla, witnesses talk about how they narrowly escaped death, which took away their companions, literally and symbolically, as migrants drowned at the (…)