Taking the opportunity of the Euro-African Summit at La Valette, on Nov. 11-12 2015, Migreurop network strongly emphasizes that, under the false pretense of cooperation and development, UE bargains with African states to subcontract the control of its borders, to deter the possibilities of free circulation, and to prioritize detention and deportation of illegalized migrants.
Just a few weeks after the global sensation caused by the photo of the corpse of young Aylan Kurdi, washed up on the (...)
Militarisation des frontières
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1995 – 2015: Thousands of deaths off the coast of Mayotte. The ‘Balladur visa’ kills!
On 18th January 1995, the Balladur government decided to curtail circulation in the Comoros archipelago by imposing an entry visa upon inhabitants of the three other Comoran islands (Mohéli, Anjouan, Grande Comore) wishing to enter Mayotte. In this way, the isolation of the island of Mayotte, which broke away from the independent state of the Union of the Comoros twenty years previously following a unilateral decision by France which was contested by the United Nations, became a reality. (...)
European borders: controls, detention and deportations
Second Migreurop annual report on violation of human rights at borders. 2009-2010
Knocking down walls and defending the right to migrate
Migreurop network members meeting, 27th and 28th November 2009, Paris
La chute du mur de Berlin sonne aujourd’hui comme un appel à combattre les oppressions, à abattre les murs qui, à travers le monde, divisent encore des villes, des territoires, des peuples.
Nicolas Sarkozy
No podemos perder de vista que hay otros muros en el mundo que deben caer
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
Since it was set up in 2002, the Migreurop network , a collection of more than forty organisations on both sides of the Mediterranean, has been denouncing the imprisonment of migrants, (...)