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Shocking dossier of systematic violations of asylum seekers along the notorious ‘Balkan route’ compiled by watchdog groups
A 1,500-page “black book” documenting hundreds of illegal pushbacks against asylum seekers by authorities on Europe’s external borders was released last week and handed over to (...)
Human rights groups condemn practice as evidence reviewed by the Guardian reveals systemic denial of entry to asylum seekers
At about 1am on 24 August, Ahmed (not his real name) climbed into a rubber dinghy with 29 others and left Turkey’s north-western Çanakkale province. After 30 minutes, he (...)
One Dutch MEP compared the plans to the far right while Von der Leyen’s party called them ‘a good starting point’
The EU home affairs commissioner, Ylva Johansson, hopes migration will become just another “normal policy area”, even “boring”.
Since more than 1 million refugees arrived in Europe in (...)
Political calculus that created dangerous conditions at refugee camp will survive the fire.Daniel Howden is a migration expert and managing director of the investigative journalism organization Lighthouse Reports.
ATHENS — Five years ago, when the refugee camp at Moria was still just a bad (...)
Brussels faces demands for quick action to help thousands displaced from Moria refugee camp — and a Continent-wide solution to the migration issue.
The flames that destroyed Greece’s Moria refugee camp in the early hours of Wednesday morning threw a harsh light on the EU’s migration policy (...)
Once again, European policies have proved to be murderous. For several days now tensions have increased at various cross-border points between Greece and Turkey. Attempts by migrants to cross into Greek territory have resulted in heavy interventions (including the use of firearms) by Greek (...)
Since July 2019 asylum-seekers and children of irregular migrants are prevented from accessing the public health system in Greece. An asylum law introduced in November has regulated the issue but implementing measures are still lacking, putting the life and health of thousands of children and (...)
Elderly women, priests and firefighters among those arrested, charged or ‘harassed’ by police for supporting migrants, with numbers soaring in the past 18 months.
Five months ago, at 10 o’clock in the morning, German police arrived at the home and parish of Christian Hartung, a pastor in (...)
Some adults whose claims were rejected went without food for up to five days, claim activists
Hungarian authorities are systematically denying food to failed asylum seekers detained in the country’s border transit zones, say rights activists.
The policy, whereby adults whose asylum claims have (...)
Ten Moroccan women say Spanish authorities have ignored claims they were trafficked, assaulted and exploited.
Last April, Samira Ahmad* kissed her baby goodbye and boarded a bus, leaving her home in Morocco for the strawberry fields of southern Spain. In her bag was her Spanish visa and a (...)
European anti-fraud agency investigates irregularities after report alleges defence minister benefited from camp funds
The conditions in which thousands of asylum seekers are being detained on Lesbos has unleashed a furious political backlash in Greece, as financing of the island’s overcrowded (...)
Refugee agency reveals fewer people crossing to Europe but one death for every 18 arrivals
Fewer people are making the journey across the Mediterranean to Europe, but the proportion of those losing their lives while trying has risen sharply, the UN refugee agency has said in its latest report. (...)
Report by human rights group also points to Italy and Malta’s hostility to rescue ships
EU policies, particularly those of Italy and Malta, are to blame for the deaths of 721 people at sea in June and July, Amnesty International has claimed.
In a damning report released on Wednesday, the human (...)
Why the EU keeps organising anti-migration propaganda events in Africa.
On a hot November evening last year [2017], I found myself in the middle of a bizarre, otherworldly scene in the economic capital of the Ivory Coast, Abidjan. On a small stage set up at a local stadium, Ivorian football (...)
As this paper will show, the neoliberal ‘Hegemony project’ and its migration and border regime has entered into crisis. It unclear as to which direction it will be redirected towards; into a closed Euro-nationalistic authoritarian regime with militarised borders and no respect for human rights, (...)
The EU’s external borders are rapidly becoming untenable. Rather than resist, Europe should embrace its future as a continent of great diversity.
The “refugee crisis” has split Europe in two. But unlike the liberal press would have us believe, the main dividing line runs not between those states (...)
Hard to fit everything in this tiny little article as a woman who works with Syrian women in the field and kind of knows the difference between the humanitarian aid and political change.
The Syrian “issue” was debated in different ways in Turkey: A refugee “problem”; a basis to discuss Turkey’s (...)
As the UN meets to resolve the world’s ‘migrant crisis’, a thinktank has revealed that Europe has spent billions trying to stop migrants entering its borders. But its efforts have not really worked, and have only placed migrants in greater danger.
The first ever Refugee and Migration Summit was (...)
The grief, frustration, and need that have washed up on these shores is overwhelming.
In the port-side café before the sun comes up, a group of men are talking.
“In the beginning, when there were maybe 40 of them in the boats, all wet, we helped them. Now they’re too many. They steal chickens. (...)
The system is failing the thousands of unaccompanied children crossing onto the Continent.
MALMÖ, Sweden — The closure of European borders and lack of an effective strategy to cope with wave after wave of refugees from Syria, Afghanistan and elsewhere often leave unaccompanied minors crossing (...)
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