The Scaling Fences: Voices of Irregular African Migrants to Europe report presents the results of an extensive study exploring the perspectives and experiences of 1970 individuals who migrated through irregular routes from Africa to Europe, originating from 39 African countries. Its aim is to contribute[…]
Region: Europe
Desparate Journeys
Laut dem jüngsten UNHCR-Bericht über die Situation auf dem Mittelmeer, der gestern veröffentlicht wurde, waren mehr als ein Viertel der Migrant*innen, die in diesem Jahr auf der Mittelmeerroute nach Europa gekommen sind, Kinder. Viele von ihnen kamen ohne ihre Eltern, einige in Begleitung anderer Verwandter[…]
Deadly crossings and the militarizations of Britains borders
The report argues that far from the UK getting a handle on border control post-Brexit, further securitisation of its borders will only result in more human suffering.Itis the first English written analysis of channel related death
Balkan Region Report –October 2020
In October, the Border Violence Monitoring Network published 40 reports of pushbacks and police violence at European Union borders. These cases, which relate the experience of 1003 people-on-the-move, are a testament to the brutal border systems in place at internal and external EU borders. Respondents[…]
Technological Testing Grounds: Migration Management Experiments
This report, based on over 40 conversations with refugees and people on the move finds that much technological innovation to foster ‘migration governance’ occurs without adequate governance mechanisms and does not account for the very real impacts on people’s rights and lives.
Draft Report on human rights protection and the EU external migration policy
III. EU cooperation with and financial aid to third countries in the field of migration: 16.Notes with concern the increasing recourse since 2016 to enhanced conditionality between development cooperation and migration management, including return and readmission; […] 17. Notes that a complete, public overview of[…]
Transnational Migrants Coordination
On October 17 the Transnational Migrant Coordination (TMC) published their first joint journal: “The TMC was born after months of struggles and communication among migrants and non-migrants’ collectives from all Europe, Morocco and Turkey, in the first attempt of transnational organization of migrants.The TMC was[…]
Aegean Regional Analysis
Human rights violations reached a new level in the Aegean Sea and at the Greek-Turkish land border from the beginning of March. The escalation went along with acts of repression against NGOs and solidarity structures for refugees and migrants. The regional analysis covers the escalation[…]
Deportation Union: EU’s push to increase forced removals
Deportation Union provides a critical examination of recently-introduced and forthcoming EU measures designed to increase the number of deportations carried out by national authorities and the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, Frontex. It focuses on three key areas: attempts to reduce or eliminate rights[…]
Push back solidarity: Kriminalisierung von Solidarität mit Schutzsuchenden
This publication provides an overview of the increasing criminalisation of solidarity with persons seeking protection within theEuropean Union. It shows to what extent this not only has drastic consequences for those affected and thus for those who support them, but also fundamentally questions and threatens[…]