Taking the opportunity of the Euro-African Summit at La Valette, on Nov. 11-12 2015, Migreurop network strongly emphasizes that, under the false pretense of cooperation and development, UE bargains with African states to subcontract the control of its borders, to deter the possibilities of free circulation, and to prioritize detention and deportation of illegalized migrants.
Just a few weeks after the global sensation caused by the photo of the corpse of young Aylan Kurdi, washed up on the (...)
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"Frontex: between Greece and Turkey: the border of denial"
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 (...)
Open letter to the President of the French Republic on the reception of refugees and migrants in France and in Europe
Paris, 10 September 2015
Dear Mr President,
Last Monday, you gave a press conference in which you made a number of statements in relation to migration and asylum, setting out the position to be adopted by France at the forthcoming meeting of EU ministers of the Interior on 14 September in Brussels.
We note that both the tone and the substance of your speech contrast sharply with the position advocated by France last summer. The tragic events which have occurred since seem to have finally (...)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, (...)Search and Rescue in Central Mediterranean Sea
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 (...)