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„FERRIES NOT FRONTEX“ read the banner that Alarm Phone activists put up on the high-speed ferry between Tangier (Morocco) and Tarifa (Spain), on Monday the 26th of September 2016. The ferry protest engaged passengers and crew in conversations about the Mediterranean as one of the deadliest and most militarised borders in the world, which gained a lot of interest and positive feedback, especially among passengers from Morocco (for a longer recap of the protest see: https://archiv.ffm-online.org/2016/09/27/ferries-not-frontex-2/). While thousands of tourists, mainly from the Global North, cross the Mediterranean on ferries with ease each year, others have to risk their lives when they want to cross over to the European side.
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The dying in the Sea did not stop. The murderous visa-regime of the EU still exists. Safe ways to travel, with the ferry-boat from Dikili or Ayvalik to Mytilene are still unreachable for all those who have no papers and are fleeing from war, violence and leave for a more dignified life. Still about 100 people every day, men, women and children, arrive on the shores of Lesvos after having risked their lives in unseaworthy small boats. Commemorating the dead of this border is also a denouncement of these murderous policies and practices. Those commemorated are not the victims of a natural catastrophe; they are the dead of a border regime for which the EU-government are politically responsible. Simply said: if it had been possible for them to buy a ferry ticket and to move wherever they wanted and needed to, they would certainly be still alive.
Quelle: WatchTheMed
Today (Mon. 26/9/2016) people from Alarm Phone dropped banners and handed out flyers for freedom of movement onboard the high-speed ferry between Tangier (Morocco) and Tarifa (Spain). In Tarifa port the ferry was welcomed by activists who set up a Ferries not Frontex sail on their yacht, while waving banners. At the same time, the “Salvamar Alkaid” rescue vessel of the Spanish coastguard arrived at Tarifa`s port and expressed sympathy with the activists, raising their thumbs.
Quelle: Alarm Phone
In the past two months, the period that this report covers, the WatchTheMed Alarm Phone was frequently alerted to situations of distress in all three regions of the Mediterranean Sea. We were engaged in 38 distress cases, of which 18 took place in the Central Mediterranean, 7 in the Aegean Sea and 13 in the Western Mediterranean (please find links to the individual reports of the past two months below). While in most cases the safe arrival of all travellers could be confirmed, in some cases we had to witness the loss of life and human rights violations.
Quelle: El Watan
Plus de 89 000 migrants, pour la plupart originaires d’Afrique subsaharienne, sont arrivés sur les côtes italiennes depuis le début de l’année, un total approchant des 93 000 recensés entre janvier et juillet 2015.
C’est ce que l’on pouvait retenir du sinistre et dernier bilan du Haut-Commissariat des Nations unies pour les réfugiés (UNHCR), dressé peu de temps avant la série d’opérations de secours intervenues, tout récemment, avec pas moins de 6500 migrants secourus au large de la Méditerranée au cours de la dernière semaine de juillet 2016.
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Hernan del Valle
This article explores the debates that unfolded within Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) around the decision to launch search and rescue operations in the Mediterranean in 2015. It examines how, beyond the unifying imperative to help, there remained very different political interpretations within the organisation about the proper role of humanitarian actors in tackling this visible and tragic situation. The points of contention included categorisation, feasibility, medical impact, and politics, raising the following central questions: should categories matter, and is it relevant whether a needy person is classed as a camp-dwelling refugee or an irregular migrant at sea? Are the needs in the Mediterranean more serious than those in disasters else- where? Would search and rescue operations end up placing publicity and politics over impartiality and neutrality? Looking at how MSF resolved these and other issues can help illustrate the challenges aid agencies face in a world where deaths from large-scale migration are becoming a more common feature of the humanitarian landscape. […]
Quelle: Taylor & Francis Online
Maurice Stierl
Cultural Studies, African American and African Studies, University of California, Davis, CA, USA
ABSTRACT
In October 2014, on the anniversary of a large migrant shipwreck in the Mediterranean Sea, activists in Europe and Africa commemorated the victims and protested their deaths by launching the WatchTheMed Alarm Phone. The Alarm Phone functions as a ‘hotline’ for travellers who find themselves in emergency situations when crossing maritime borders towards EUrope. Its shift-teams offer information, advice and the possibility of raising public alarm, also in order to pressurise (state) rescue services to act. Based on my own engagement in the project, I portray an activist network that acted on the desire to intervene more directly in a deadly space that is often considered a ‘maritime void’ or as ‘reserved’ for state and EU (border) authorities. I argue that the Alarm Phone’s transformative political potentiality arises precisely from its capacity to connect its constitutive engagement in (under the surface) mobile commons that facilitate ‘unauthorised’ human movement with public campaigns that call for and (thereby) perform international citizenship. […]
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Quelle: Spiegel Online
Das Mittelmeer ist zum Krisengebiet geworden. Täglich brechen Verzweifelte von Libyen per Schlauchboot nach Europa auf. Nadia Kailouli war drei Wochen mit einem privaten Rettungsschiff unterwegs.
Das Mittelmeer ist zum Krisengebiet geworden. Täglich brechen Verzweifelte von Libyen per Schlauchboot nach Europa auf. Nadia Kailouli war drei Wochen mit einem privaten Rettungsschiff unterwegs.
https://youtu.be/_KBtV-LpQHY
