July 8th, 2025
Join the Transnational Chain of Actions for Free Movement
FR and DE dessous / untenThe Call was first published on Trans-Boder.netJoin the Transnational Chain of Actions for Free Movement The Transnational Chain of Actions will start in two months: …
July 17th, 2025
Detained, Deported, Abandoned: A note on the situation of migrants in Mauritania
Since February 2025, migrants in Mauritania have been suffering an ordeal. Mostly nationals of the region, they are being arrested and detained in sweep operations on the city's streets, in …
October 14th, 2024
Ignoring the root causes of the disaster: the EU and Sudan
In June, the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the EU circulated a paper on Sudan to the Working Party on External Aspects of Asylum and Migration (EMWP). The document …
April 3rd, 2025
Impunity for war criminals and the European migration strategy in Libya
New leaked documents show that the EU’s “border assistance mission” in Libya is slowly expanding its work and is entering a “consolidation phase”. The efforts to “stabilise” the North African …
May 19th, 2025
Monthly Bulletin 6
About this bulletinThis project, carried out by Statewatch and migration-control.info and funded by Brot für die Welt, Misereor, medico international and Pro Asyl, aims to make the EU’s externalisation policies, …
March 29th, 2025
Die Colour Line durch Afrika
EN Version as PDF hereIm Jahr 1899 schrieb W.E.B. Du Bois in seinem berühmten Buch The Philadelpia Negro diesen Satz:In allen Lebensbereichen wird der N* auf Ablehnung oder unhöfliche Behandlung …
Morocco
IntroductionMorocco, a country with a rich history and diverse cultures, today faces numerous challenges that deeply affect its economy, social structure and political landscape. Due to its geographical location on …
Migration-Control.Info Project
About
The Migration-Control.Info Project is a transnational network of activists, journalists, translators, academics and anti-racist organisations from Europe and Africa. We document the externalisation of European migration control to third countries, especially in Africa. We work decentralized, self-organized and non-hierarchical.
What is
Externalized Migration Control
Since the establishment of the Schengen zone in the early 1990s the European Union and its member states have increasingly worked with their neighbouring countries to control their borders. Security oriented measures, such as the conclusion of return agreements, joint border patrolling and border capacity building have been accompanied by an increasing use of development aid to stop migration. Since the mid-2000s and the emergence of the "routes approach" borders have been shifted increasingly southward and have become a priority area of cooperation between the Union and African states.
Wiki
The central research tool of our platform. Here you can find a comprehensive compilation of relevant regions, important terms, agencies and NGOs as well as country reports.
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The blog gathers short analysis of and commentary on recent events linked to European migration control by researchers, activists and journalists.
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In our library we collect reports, analyses and other resources which complement the Wiki entries. Policy documents and agreements are gathered here only if we deem them particularly important.
Read moreBorder Profiteers List
A list of companies involved in and benefiting from the technological upgrading of the (externalized) European borders.
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Once a month, we publish our review covering recent developments of the Eurafrican migration control, migration and displacement in Africa, and across the Med.
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