Deciphering European migration policies
The European coastguard and border guard agency Frontex is accused by various media of knowledge of or complicity in the pushback of at least six boats of migrants in the Aegean Sea between March and September 2020 as part of Operation Poseidon. For the first time, the agency has been summoned to explain itself to the European Commission and Parliament. It was about time!
Numerous and recurrent accusations For ten years now, multiple actors have been documenting the incompatibility of (…)
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LOCKED UP AND EXCLUDED
Informal and illegal detention in Spain, Greece, Italy and Germany
The report of Migreurop “Locked up and excluded": Informal and illegal detention in Spain, Greece, Italy and Germany” looks back at how four EU member states practiced the administrative detention of non- nationals in 2019. The report shows how, in both first arrival countries such as Italy, Greece and Spain and in a presumed destination country, Germany, the detention of non-nationals is evolving, taking new forms and based on new grounds. In particular, this report argues that, in 2019, (…)
Samos hotspot : inferno at the Greece-Turkey border
Mission Report Gisti - Migreurop 2019
On Friday 28th February 2020, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan decided unilaterally to suspend the EU-Turkey deal of 2016, which, over the past four years, transformed five Greek islands in the Aegean sea into open prisons for migrants, the infamous ‘hotspots’. Already, Turkey had repeatedly used this agreement as a blackmailing device, threatening to re-open its borders with the EU. Finally, this threat was carried out in response to criticism from European leaders following a Turkish (…)
Protect and control : the Janus face of the UNHCR
Brief #11 - May 2020
Anyone interested in migration issues as covered by mainstream media will perceive the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) as an NGO; in reality, the UNHCR is a UN agency with more than 85% of its budget originating from country contributions. The agency’s opinion is often used as a counter-narrative to anti-refugee discourse. Communication is of major interest to the UNHCR, which often sollicits the general public for donations.
The UNHCR’s external communication – to be (…)Call for the immediate evacuation of Moria
In support for exiles living on the island of Lesbos, Migreurop is a signatory of a Tribune initiated by European personalities published in Libération’s newspaper of 11 September 2020.
At a time when 12,500 refugees and asylum seekers are wandering homeless on the roads and hills of Lesbos, when those suffering from smoke inhalation and burns from the fire in Moria are prevented by the police from reaching the hospital in Mytilene, when solidarity groups bringing basic necessities are (…)