In the framework of session n°24 of the programme "Echanges & Partenariats" (member of the IPAM network), Pierre Menzildjian went to Calais on behalf of Migreurop within the Platform of Migrant Support (PSM) from September 2021 to April 2022. During this five-month mission, he was able to investigate the evolution of the increasing militarisation of the UK-French border, as well as the impact of the Brexit on the rights of exiles.
Following the Brexit, and despite some divergences (...)
Death at borders
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Dead and Missing Migrants, 2014 - 2021
Map from Nicolas Lambert
This map shows the number of dead or missing people while migrating in this geographical area during the year 2021. Among them, there were at least 213 children.
Although there is no official count of the number of people who have died in migration, many projects have been launched since the 1990s to report on the deadly consequences of European migration policies. This map was made using data from the "Missing Migrants" project initiated from 2014 by the IOM.
On this map, each point (...)“Deconstructing the border and building bridges: Towards a critical collective analysis of the French-British-Belgian border”
Crossborder Forum - Study Day, 10 November 2021 (summary)
The UK’s border with France and Belgium has been increasingly visibilised over the last year, particularly with the increased number of crossings of the Channel in small boats and the ever-worsening situation of people stranded in this cross-border area.
This study day brought together activists, NGO representatives and researchers from different sectors and disciplines to discuss various aspects of border-building, including new forms of control, but also ways in which different actors can (...)The Channel, Europe’s other graveyard
In the Channel, as elsewhere, European migration policies are killing and hindering the right of every person to move freely
On 24 November 2021, yet another shipwreck claimed the lives of at least 27 people trying to reach the UK from France, adding to the list of more than 300 people who have died since 1999 at this border. Like the Mediterranean, where more than 38,000 migrants have died or gone missing since the early 2000s, the English Channel has been turned into a graveyard by murderous European migration policies.
The horror of this tragedy is compounded by the authorities’ unbearable hypocrisy, and the (...)In Calais, Abdulfatah Hamdallah was the latest victim of European migration policies
Collective Action
On Wednesday 19 August, Abdulfatah Hamdallah, a Sudanese refugee from western Kordofan, was found dead on a beach in Sangatte, in Pas-de-Calais, after trying to cross the strait that separates the United Kingdom from France aboard a makeshift boat.
One more death.
Abdulfatah Hamdallah is not the first person who has died trying to reach England. In Calais, like elsewhere in the European Union and at its gates men, women and children are dying trying to cross borders in the hope of (...)