-- 2021: Migrants and Refugees Trapped in Libya Face Crimes Against Humanity
by ECCHR, FIDH, LFJL,
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In Libya, migrants and refugees face a litany of gross human rights violations in an often endless cycle of violence in which they are passed from one intermediary to another. There is no shortage of reports detailing the extreme violence, degrading treatment and inhuman conditions[…]
-- 2021: Outsourcing Oppression
by Mark Akkermann,
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In September 2020, the European Commission launched its New Pact on Migration and Asylum. Although it had been in the pipeline for some time, it came only weeks after Moria, one of Europe’s largest refugee camps on the Greek island of Lesbos, burned to the[…]
-- 2009: UNHCR-A Surrogate State?
by Slaughter, Amy and Jeff Crisp,
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The paper argues that humanitarian agencies in general, and UNHCR in particular, have been placed in the position of establishing and assuming responsibility for such “sprawling camps” in order to fill gaps in the international refugee regime that were not envisaged at the time of[…]
-- 2021: Libya: Evidence crimes against humanity and war crimes
by OHCHR,
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GENEVA (4 October 2021) – There are reasonable grounds to believe that war crimes have been committed in Libya, while violence perpetrated in prisons and against migrants there may amount to crimes against humanity, the Independent Fact-Finding Mission on Libya says in a report published[…]
-- 2004: Stop IOM!
by AntirassismusBüro Bremen,
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In der Broschüre geht es darum,“die Aktivitäten und Machenschaften der IOM darzustellen. Die Fokusierung auf die IOM ist darin begründet, dass dieser Organisation bei der Entwicklung und Umsetzung von Konzepten zur Migrationskontrolle eine herausragende Bedeutung zukommt“. Die Broschüre aus dem Jahr 2004 stand im Zusammenhang[…]
-- 2021: Friedenspolitik von unten
by Johnson, Dominik,
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Die globale Außenpolitik hat sich verrannt, wie sich zurzeit in Afghanistan offenbart. Séverine Autesserre zeigt in ihrem Buch, wie es anders geht. von Dominik Johnson, zum Buch Severine Autesserre: „The Frontlines of Peace An Insider’s Guide to Changing the World“. Oxford University Press 2021, 240[…]
-- 2020: Refugee Body in the Era of Data-craving
by Lemberg-Pedersen, Martin and Eman Haioty,
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This article traces the travel of biometric data of Syrian refugees in Jordan through a hastily evolving political economy characterized by a pervasive craving for the extraction, storage and brokering of displacement data. It analyzes iris-enrollment as problematic acts of quasi-citizenship for the displaced requiring[…]
-- 2019: Manufacturing displacement
by Lemberg-Pedersen, Martin,
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In 2018, the European Council suggested “regional disembarkation platforms” as an innovative externalization of displacement management in the Mediterranean. Yet, the logic of naval interception, deportation and disembarkation zones parallel not only Western proposals since the 1980s, but also colonial practices during the transatlantic slave[…]
-- 2021: Decrypting ICMPD
by Sofian Naceur,
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Despite its substantial growth since its establishment in 1993, the International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD) is still a relatively small organization in terms of staff and budget compared to other key actors of the EU border regime. Over the years however, ICMPD turned[…]
-- 2021: EU-LISA zwischen Lobbyismus und venture sciences
by Brigitta Kuster, Vassilis S. Tsianos,
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Der Beitrag exponiert methodologische Überlegungen und Probleme, die den (sicherheits-)industriell-politischen Komplex von Forschung und Entwicklung (FuE) in den Migration and Border Studies betreffen. Am Schnittpunkt von Migration and Border Studies und Science and Technology Studies skizziert der Beitrag eine Analytik der europäischen digitalen Grenzzone in[…]
