On 12 October, the Justice and Home Affairs Council will discuss the new reform proposal of Frontex, the European Coast Guard and Border Guard Agency, two years after the last revision of the mandate in 2016. Regardless of the criticisms concerning rights violations inherent in its activities, the agency is in the process of acquiring executive powers as well as gaining an increased role in deporting migrants from Member States and non-European countries.
The Frontexit collective (...)
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28-29 June 2018 European Council – Strengthening Borders Signals the Death of Migrants and the EU
Fewer and fewer migrants are able to cross EU borders. Over the first six months of the year, arrivals by sea to Italy decreased by over 70% compared with 2017 . In spite of this, a few hundred migrants rescued at sea have been portrayed as the root cause of the most significant “crisis” ever faced by the EU. The European Council, which is meeting on 28-29 June, is once again placing at the top of its agenda the response to “migratory pressures”. However, the “solutions” that will be put forward (...)
The French-Italian border: at the heart of violence and of violation of rights
Atlas of migrants 2017
In the heart of the Schengen area, the border between France and Italy – which has been crossed by migratory movements for many centuries – has been closed, with the restoration of internal border controls in November 2015
Now becoming a militarized and controlled area, the French-Italian border has highlighted for three years migration policies aiming to push back so-called migrant people, in disregard of fundamental rights : ethnic profiling, forced returns without respect for procedures, (...)Flow Mechanics
A documentary film by Nathalie Loubeyre
« All they do is flee from the war... But we do our job ». A long pause, the image jumps. The Croatian border-guard spends her night shift in front of her computer, zooming with the infra-red camera, to intercept and track down the migrants who try to cross the border.
What at first sight looks like a human-made landscape - a path in the countryside, the banks of a river - shows gradually on the surface the symbolic power and the material violence of the border, with its architecture and its (...)Calais declaration
We must refuse the encampment of foreign citizens and the closure of borders
On its ten-year anniversary, the Migreurop network met in Calais last weekend to lend its support to the third-country nationals who are trapped in difficult terrains in the Calais region and exchange views with the activists and organisations who are involved in the struggles against policies of hounding of migrants by the French and British states as well as the European Union (EU).
These three days of debates with militants who came from all over Europe, Turkey and Africa flowed towards (...)