Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
THE CONVERGING CATASTROPHES of global capitalism have landed on multiple communities, peoples and nations — but nowhere harder than on displaced populations, refugees and asylum seekers. There are by now an estimated 100 million people globally who have fled their homelands or become internally (…)
From the north of France to the Aegean Sea, from the Mediterranean to Mexico, the number of deaths at our borders is rising. More than 24,000 people are officially known to have perished on the perilous Mediterranean sea route alone since 2014. Yet these recurring tragedies produce no reaction (…)
On February 26, two days after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, journalist Charlie D’Agata became visibly emotional as he described scenes of civilians running to bomb shelters, or else fleeing the city altogether, only to be caught in miles-long traffic jams. A senior correspondent for CBS,1 (…)
Jérémie*, an Ivorian in his early thirties who arrived in Tunisia in early 2016, is reluctant to speak out. He says he suffered reprisals after appearing on a television report with his face uncovered. On a large, international French-language channel, he dared to denounce the racism to which he (…)
President Trump’s approach to migration, which has reshaped American border enforcement with its “zero tolerance” policy, follows a model pioneered by the European Union and Australia — though they may not have pursued it with Mr. Trump’s bombast.
Like Mr. Trump’s policies, defined by (…)
“The Left case Against Open Borders” is wrong on the immigrant rights movement. It is wrong in its supposed materialist analysis. It is wrong on how we should view the legacy of Old Left
“The Left Case against Open Borders” by Angela Nagle is an essay with a misleading title. The article (…)
At the People’s Summit for a Global Pact of Solidarity with Migrants and Refugees, held in Marrakech December 8th and 9th of 2018, hosted by La Via Campesina and its member organisations of the Middle East and North Africa (MeNa) Process, the global peasant movement and its allies have issued a (…)
Children separated from their families and caged in Trump’s USA, thousands drowning as they cross the Mediterranean, boats transporting migrants refused the right to dock by Salvini’s Italy, Orban’s Hungary declaring that helping refugees is a crime, 370 thousand Rohingya fleeing from to (…)
Warsan Shire, a 24 year old Kenyan-born Somali poet, writer and educator based in London, in her debut book, Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth (2011) observes, “No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark.” Three years back, the photographs of Aylan Kurdi sent us shock-waves. The (…)
Warsan Shire, a 24 year old Kenyan-born Somali poet, writer and educator based in London, in her debut book, Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth (2011) observed, “No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark.” Three years back, the photographs of Aylan Kurdi created shock-waves around (…)
Margaret Belafonte fled her home on a small Caribbean island to escape a violent and abusive common-law spouse (her name has been changed to protect her identity). The country she fled is one in which social services, such as they were, have been drastically cut. There is one temporary shelter (…)
The below is the unedited piece for #Iamamigrant campaign.
I left Iran in 1980 with my mother to go to India to continue my education after my school closed down. My mother was meant to settle me in and return but stayed when things got worse. After a few months, my father and 3 year old (…)
PRESENTATION OF THE WORKING GROUP MIGRATIONS
Why must social movements tackle the issue of international migration?
Because it is a question of humanity.
It is unacceptable that people receive inhumane treatment simply because they want to change their place of residence. We can no longer (…)
As the global refugee summits draw nearer, world leaders need to be pressured into alleviating women’s suffering.
The current refugee crisis is one of the gravest humanitarian disasters to unfold across the world in modern times. Among a multiplicity of universal horrors, this crisis presents (…)
’If it is fresh, if the media are there, then you have a name, like this little boy on the beach. Ten years later, you have forgotten the name. There is nobody there, and there is very little money’
One year after the death of Alan Kurdi saw concern for the plight of Syrians surge across (…)
THE IMAGES ARE heart-wrenching. The numbers are extreme, the living conditions appalling. I am speaking of Syrian refugees: women, men, and children who are fleeing the fire of war to face the ravage of sea, deserts, barbed wire, border patrols, beatings, imprisonment, encampment and (…)
More than 1 million Indonesian migrant workers experience various violations in the foreign countries in which they work, the head of a local non-governmental organisation said on Monday.
Speaking at the Gymboree of Indonesian Migrant Workers event, Migrant Care executive director Anis Hidayah (…)
Refugees in Southeast Asia live in legal limbo and are subject to harassment, arrest, and detention. Especially Rohingya refugees are in indefinite detention and have been forgotten by the international media.
In May and June 2015, the Southeast Asia region experienced a sudden refugee (…)
Migrant workers in the Asean Region live and work under inhumane conditions. To improve this situation policies, the migration industry and the accountability of employers must all get a lot more attention.
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) was established in Thailand on 8 (…)
An unprecedented migration crisis unfolded in Southeast Asia earlier this year. Several Rohingya asylum seekers were stuck on boats in the Andaman Sea. Echoing Australia’s hardline asylum policy, Thailand initially refused the boats access to their shores. This standoff, which was solved by (…)
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