“Trapped in Europe’s Quagmire: The situation of asylum seekers and refugees in Bulgaria” is Bordermonitoring’s latest report on Bulgaria. The making of the report was undertaken by four independent researchers and follows structural conditions in the country which place asylum-seekers and refugees in an extremely vulnerable position as well as their current precarious situation.
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Vassilis Papastergiou, Eleni Takou
Migration In Greece
Eleven Myths And Even More Truths. Publication of the RLS Office in Greece.
Are there too many immigrants living in Greece so that there is no more room for others? Are they „illegal immigrants“? Is the law on citizenship an „illegal immigrants“ magnet? Are foreigners, although we treat them in the best possible way, time bombs that threaten public health? Do they take our jobs and threaten our lives and properties? Albanians have integrated; are Pakistanis a different story? Is racist violence limited to a few isolated incidents? Did our own fathers emigrate legally?
We have repeatedly heard this and much more in the form of statements and not questions. But as deeply as they might be embedded in the public opinion, the above stereotypes prove to be tenuous: a level-headed review shows that not only they are dangerous (as they are often associated with extreme right-wing schools of thought), but they also do not correspond with the truth.
For at least twenty years, the migration issue in Greece is an issue which has been permanently coming to the forefront in different guises, taking up a central spot in public discussions. Those discussions are mostly dominated by distorted notions, while true facts are obscured, as migration is an issue that is instrumentalised by politics and exploited by the media. The actions of the main representatives of mass media and systematic interventions by the extreme right have led to the creation of social myths and at times even of situations of “moral panic”, which makes it more and more difficult to comprehend the phenomenon’s complexity and of course address it in a sober manner.
Helmut Dietrich über Satellitentechnologie gegen Flüchtlinge und deren Selbstorganisation außerhalb der traditionellen NGOs
Im Rahmen von: „Ein anderes Meer ist möglich!“
Konferenz „über die Grenzen des Blauen Wachstums und die Zukunft der Meere“ eines breiten zivilgesellschaftlichen Bündnisses vom 15. – 17. Mai 2014 im Konsul-Hackfeld-Haus in Bremen
Die spanische Presse wertet den amnesty international Bericht über die menschlichen Kosten der Festung Europa aus und fasst zu Spanien zusammen: Spanien hat zwischen 2007 und 2013 ca 9,3 Millionen Euro für Flüchtlinge und AsylbewerberInnen ausgegeben, aber 30 Mal mehr – ca. 289,4 Millionen Euro – für die Grenzaufrüstung.
Die EU hat zwischen 2007 und 2013 ca. 2 Milliarden Euro für die Grenzaufrüstung ausgegeben, drei Mal mehr als für Flüchtlinge und AsylbewerberInnen (700 Millionen Euro).
via Europa gasta casi tres veces más en blindar sus fronteras que en proteger a los refugiados
amnesty international
The Human Cost of Fortress Europ
Human Rights Violations against Migrants and Refugees at Europe’s Borders
London 2014.
Inhalt:
1. INTRODUCTION
2. CONSTRUCTION OF THE FORTRESS
FUNDING THE FORTRESS
OUTSOURCING MIGRATION CONTROL TO THIRD COUNTRIES
FRONTEX: THE EUROPEAN BORDER AGENCY
EUROSUR: TECHNOLOGY GUARDING EU BORDERS
3. THE HUMAN COST OF THE FORTRESS
VIOLENCE AND PUSH-BACKS AT EU BORDERS
FAILURE TO PROTECT
TRAPPED IN TRANSIT
4. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
ENDNOTES
http://dirittiefrontiere.blogspot.de/
The Eclipse of Europe: Economic Agreements between Italy and Libya and the Surveillance of Borders
Pubblicato da Fulvio Vassallo
Bilateral Agreements between Italy and Libya: Security without Human Rights
Not much has been said about the Ministerial Conference held in Rome on the 6th of March 2014, where foreign ministers, high level delegations from Libya and representatives from international organisations gathered to discuss the current situation of Libya. At the forefront of the Conference there were the economic ties between Libya and its partners, the necessity to defend them by disarming paramilitary groups, the patrolling of borders and the subsequent issue of illegal migration.
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Herfried Münkler: „Die ökonomische Prosperität als wichtigste Machtressource Deutschlands hängt nicht nur am Frieden in Europa, sondern auch an der politischen und sozialen Stabilität der europäischen Peripherie. Die größte sicherheitspolitische Herausforderung des 21. Jahrhunderts wird nicht in der Gefährdung von Grenzen durch feindliche Militärverbände, sondern im Überschreiten dieser Grenzen durch gewaltige Flüchtlingsströme bestehen, die, wenn sie massiv auftreten, nicht der wirtschaftlichen Prosperität Europas zugute kommen, sondern die sozialen Sicherungssysteme der europäischen Staaten überfordern und damit die soziale Ordnung in Frage stellen.
http://migrantsatsea.org/2014/07/01/
The effect of negative labelling – Why are we still talking about ‘migrants’?
By Dr Melissa Phillips
As the number of people arriving by boat to Europe continues to rise, so does the rhetoric about an influx of ‘illegal migrants’, ‘boat migrants’ , ‘migrant boats’ and just plain ‘illegals’. Academics have long written about the impact of press reporting on asylum issues and the effect of labelling on refugees and asylum seekers.(1) Their findings show the way predominantly negative labels are repeated and entrenched having a detrimental consequence for how we understand asylum issues and perceive asylum seekers. Perhaps the most pernicious of these labels has been ‘illegal’ which human rights groups, refugee advocates and media organisations have been campaigning against as inaccurate and legally incorrect.(2)
A big report on direct action campaigns against companies profiting from migrants detention and deportation has been realized. It includes a collection of direct actions and campaigns in different countries, reflections and figures from different sources showing the negative economic impact of being a target of such campaigns.
The report is targeted at companies customers, shareholders and employees. The aim is to spread the information in the business circle about companies victims of actions, to affect the reputation of them, to highlight the often minimized economic impacts of such campaigns, to open the internal discussion about the issue.
Targeted companies often try to keep this information hidden and to avoid any public (and internal) communication on it. They know that this can have emulation effect, and especially they know that the direct impact of these campaigns is often much smaller than the indirect one (like image damages, impaired credibility for customer, internal discussions, changes in the operative procedure).
The report is also meant to be spread in the business sector which are often involved in border system (construction, security, airlines..)
The report was already sent by mail to a large number of targeted companies‘ employees, shareholders and customers, and published to some investors forum.
Feel free to spread it much more, to print it, to send it to companies and stakeholders, to edit it and make new versions…
Here is the external link: https://reportdetentionsector.wordpress.com/
newsletter izindaba 6, juni 2014
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SCHWERPUNKT:
Cityness in Afrika
Über Mobilität, Offenheit, Unkontrollierbarkeit, Subjektivität und Selbstorganisierung
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