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Tag: migrant struggles
Illegal pushbacks cause more Aegean deaths
Many will try to make another journey, risking their lives again to reach safety.
European Court of Justice absolves Frontex of responsibility for human rights violations
According to a recent European Court of Justice adjudication, Frontex is not responsible for border human rights violations.
Croatia: A new detention centre, but no solutions
European policies tend to support technical equipment, unreliable securitisation plans and procedures, and questionable police centres rather than …
Must Britain’s borders be a site of brutality?
Ellis Fox rounds up and critiques the right’s most common arguments against immigration
Afghanistan Report — An urgent need to expand safe pathways
The Internation Rescue Committee (IRC) have released a report — ‘Two years on: Afghans still lack pathways to safety in the EU’ — highlight…
France: Campaign against new migrant detention centres ramps up
Despite noises about welcoming refugees from Ukraine in recent months, France is joining Britain in expanding the prisons-for-migrants system as pa…
France: Revolts in the migrant detention centres
Rebellions are increasing in the detention centres of Vincennes and Mesnil-Amelot, with deportation refusal, protests against appalling living con…
France: Appeal trial for a group of activists showing solidarity with migrant people against far right ‘border defenders’ begins
On May 27, hundreds of people gathered outside the court in Grenoble, France to show their support to “Briançon 7”: a group of individ…
Close the Camps: Day of Action at Napier Barracks
A coalition of grassroots groups calls for an action against the Home Office housing of asylum seekers in ex-army barracks, which have been declare…
Hostile Environment: Home Office faces lawsuit from woman whose baby died in its care
In the spring of 2020, a heavily pregnant woman from Angola began experiencing back pain and bleeding while living in the asylum accommodation in C…
#WhereAreThey: Remembering the lives of those who perished trying to reach Europe on February 9, 2020
At 04.09am on February 9, 2020, the distress hotline Alarm Phone received a call, a call that was initially no different than the dozens of others …
France: Cops spend their nights stopping migrants from sleeping
For the last few days officers have been showing up at camps along Paris’ Saint-Denis canal in the evening to prevent migrants from settling …
Don’t despair, organise!: Reading Red Kitchen
Like many homeless people during the lockdown, asylum-seeking migrants are being bundled into cramped hotels.
France: Prison overcrowding during heatwave sparks hunger strikes
After an astonishing decision to crush excessive numbers of prisoners into migrant detention centre CRA Vincennes left people living four to a cell…
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Lament for a lost revolution
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