Nous demandons :
- la fin du régime des frontières de l’UE
- La liberté de mouvement, de circulation, d’établissement et de résidence pour tous
Contexte
L’Europe s’est construite sur une histoire de colonialisme, d’extractivisme et d’exploitation qui se poursuit aujourd’hui. Les frontières modernes sont des constructions coloniales et racistes, et les politiques frontalières de l’UE institutionnalisent cette violence, cette injustice et cette inégalité.
L’UE n’a pas le droit d’arrêter les gens à ses frontières et personne ne devrait être illégal.
Les politiques anti-immigration de l’Europe, en particulier la militarisation des frontières, ont entraîné une augmentation de la violence et des risques pour les personnes en migration. Elles sont contraintes d’emprunter des routes migratoires plus dangereuses et tombent entre les mains de trafiquants et de réseaux de passeurs sans scrupules, qui ont souvent pris le relais là où les populations locales qui aidaient les personnes en migration dans leur périple ont été chassées du travail par une sévère répression. Ainsi, l’UE crée elle-même le marché de la traite et du trafic qu’elle prétend combattre.
Documentation et ressources
- Refugee Rights Europe has collected a non-exhaustive list of key evidence and data on pushbacks. It comprises a mixture of content published by media outlets, networks, INGOs and grassroots organisations who are shining a light on pushbacks in multiple locations across Europe.
- Building Walls: Fear and securitization in the European Union (2018) Member states of the European Union and Schengen Area have constructed almost 1000 km of walls, the equivalent of more than six times the total length of the Berlin Walls, since the nineties to prevent displaced people migrating into Europe. These physical walls are accompanied by even longer ‘maritime walls’, naval operations patrolling the Mediterranean, as well as ‘virtual walls’, border control systems that seek to stop people entering or even traveling within Europe, and control movement of population.
Main site: https://www.tni.org/en/publication/building-walls
Full report – English: https://www.tni.org/files/publication-downloads/building_walls_-_full_report_-_english.pdf – English
Full report in Spanish – Informe en español - The Business of Building Walls (2019) – A report by the Transnational Institute. Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Europe is once again known for its border walls. This time Europe is divided not so much by ideology as by perceived fear of refugees and migrants, some of the world’s most vulnerable people.
Available in English, Spanish, French.
El Negocio de Construir Muros – Resumen Ejecutivo – Espanol
Le Business de L’Édification de Murs – Synthése – Francais - Guarding the fortress: The role of Frontex in the militarisation and securitisation of migration flows in the European Union (2019)
The report focuses on 19 Frontex operations run by the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (hereafter Frontex) to explore how the agency is militarising borders and criminalising migrants, undermining fundamental rights to freedom of movement and the right to asylum.
Full report available in English and Spanish - Covid 19 and Border Politics (2020): This briefing takes a look at the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic for refugees and migrants and its anticipated influence on the border security and control market. What are the direct effects on migrants and refugees who are already living in vulnerable situations? What does it mean for people crossing international borders, seeking asylum and transiting the deadly and treacherous migrant routes across regions, continents and seas? And how are they affected by government responses to the outbreak?