Tag: Fortress Europe ⁄ Open Migration

The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 27/2017

July 11, 2017 - Open Migration

Libya as an unlikely, dangerous ally; migrants sent back into a hell beyond the sea (as one recent report dubbed it). Italy’s bluff to close its ports to migrant boats and its “help them at home” policy. The fundamental rights jeopardized by immigrant detention and the misguided attempts to solve humanitarian crises with evictions. Ten essential reads on the price of borders and the failed policies of the EU and others on immigration and asylum.

The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 14/2017

April 11, 2017 - Open Migration

As the Italian government prepares to pass the much-criticised new law about immigration and asylum, migrants are dying in the Mediterranean in unprecedented numbers. Here is how the fundamental rights of asylum seekers are being violated in Italy, Europe and around the world.

If the EU wants to be the bastion of liberal democracy it must stop demonising refugees and migrants too

February 11, 2017 - Nando Sigona

While the rhetoric is certainly diverging between the US and EU since Trump took office, in practice there are many substantial points of convergence between the two sides of the Atlantic as far as the treatment of refugees and migrants is concerned.

Administrative detention of migrants in Europe and the danger of a double standard in the protection of personal liberties

June 8, 2016 - Olivia Lopez Curzi

Administrative detention of migrants and asylum seekers in Europe has been made institutional, and has become a key point in the management of migratory flows. But detention centres for migrants seem to reverse the relation between safety and freedom, which lies at the heart of the modern regime of human rights protection, with the effect of creating a double legal standard and a double system of protection of personal liberties.