immigration
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New report: Deadly Crossings and the militarisation of Britain’s borders
This transnational collaboration between the IRR, the Permanent People’s Tribunal (PPT) London steering group and French group Gisti is the first English-language analysis of the nearly 300 known border-related deaths in and around the English Channel since 1999. Continue reading
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Webinar: Deportation Union: databases for expulsions (26 October, 14:00-15:30 CET)
The EU is expanding a host of databases used for migration and border control. A key focus of this is the increased collection and use of personal data to facilitate forced removals. Continue reading
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We Took Action Against the Hostile Environment
This weekend, under the banner of ‘Solidarity Knows No Borders’, groups in more than 20 locations across the country joined us to take action to demand an end to the Hostile Environment. Continue reading
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UK: Stand in solidarity with Simba this weekend
This weekend, across the country thousands of people are taking action against the racism and cruelty of Hostile Environment immigration policies under the banner of ‘Solidarity Knows No Borders’ #SKNB. Continue reading
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Hi Fly: Airline profiting from deportations while owners decry ‘desperate plight of migrants’
The government’s attempts to hastily expel Channel-crossing migrants on charter flights have gathered pace, with a series of deportations over the last two months. Continue reading
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Deportation Union: revamped return policies and reckless forced removals
Join Statewatch and TNI on 28 September at 13:30 BST/14:30 CET for the first webinar of a three-part series accompanying the publication of the report Deportation Union: Rights, accountability and the EU’s push to increased forced removals. Continue reading
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Deportation Union: Rights, accountability and the EU’s push to increase forced removals
Deportation Union provides a critical examination of recently-introduced and forthcoming EU measures designed to increase the number of deportations carried out by national authorities and the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, Frontex. It focuses on three key areas: attempts to reduce or eliminate rights and protections in the law governing deportations; the expansion and interconnection… Continue reading
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Moral panic over refugees in the English Channel is the ugly face of Brexit
Imagine the courage and fortitude, borne of desperation, it requires to embark on a do or die attempt to cross the sea in a dinghy from a land where you’ve already been met with the fist of fury rather than the hand of friendship, to another land where more hostility and rage awaits your arrival. Continue reading
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UK Immigration: We sued the govt and won (again!)
Wonderful news – our legal challenge has forced the government to abandon its racist visa algorithm. Lawyers from the Home Office wrote to us yesterday afternoon. The Home Secretary Priti Patel has agreed to scrap the visa streaming algorithm from this Friday – and pledged a full review of the system, including for issues of ‘unconscious bias’… Continue reading
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Fair Immigration: Dignity. Justice. Welcome. Action
Covid-19, it turns out, is not the great equaliser. The pandemic and lockdown, together, have exposed the different social realities experienced by those on either side of the race and class divide. One differential is that between citizens and those who crossed borders. Within weeks of the pandemic BAME essential workers started dying in disproportionately higher numbers… Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online,14 2020 (9/20)
14 July 2020 — Statewatch e-mail: office@statewatch.org Also available as a pdf file: https://www.statewatch.org/media/1230/email-14-7-20.pdf STATEWATCH ANALYSES 1. Analysis: Spain/Portugal/Italy: Partial relief: migrant regularisations during the COVID-19 pandemic by Yurema Pallarés Pla Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online: 21 May 2020: New analysis: reinforcement of Frontex runs into legal problems
21 May 2020 — Statewatch e-mail: office@statewatch.org New analysis: reinforcement of Frontex runs into legal problems An internal Frontex report published today by Statewatch highlights a series of issues in implementing the agency’s new legislation, including uncertain legal terminology and delays caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Continue reading
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The debts of undocumented Vietnamese migrants in Europe
Debt and trafficking were used to explain why 39 Vietnamese migrants were found dead in a lorry in Essex, but whom did the migrants owe? Continue reading
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Trump’s raids and the stench of fascism
On Saturday night, undocumented immigrants across America will say goodnight to their spouses, parents and children, fearing it may be the last time they are able to do so. Beginning Sunday, the Trump administration plans to launch the largest immigration raids in US history, targeting 2,000 families for arrest and deportation in 10 of the… Continue reading
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UK Border Regime updates special – Couriers win! – Summer School selling fast – Water bosses’ payouts – Priory Group makes millions
6 July 2019 — Corporate Watch First, some good news. At the end of last year we revealed the huge amounts pathology company The Doctors Laboratory (TDL) was paying to its directors and shareholders – while denying couriers the better pay they were demanding. Since then, six months of campaigning and threats of strike action by the Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 13 May 2019 (12/19)
13 May 2019 — Statewatch e-mail: office@statewatch.org Also available as a pdf file: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2019/may/email-may-13-19.pdf Please to support our work STATEWATCH NEWS 1. Mytilene, Greece: Peaceful demonstration and the human right to freedom of assembly prevails 2. EU: Frontex gets ready to deploy to the Balkans 3. EU: Construction of the European Travel Information and Authorisation System (ETIAS) 4. EU criminal Continue reading
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The Government’s Secret Hostile Environment Database
Back in July 2011, David Cameron made a speech about transparency. He told the electorate of Britain that a new dawn of government transparency had arrived and the release of official data would change the way government delivered public services. Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 29 April 2019 (10/19)
29 April 2019 — Statewatch Also available as a pdf file: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2019/apr/email-29-april.pdf Please to support our work STATEWATCH NEWS 1. EU: Police press ahead with efforts to automate cross-border information-sharing 2. EU: National security and fundamental rights: problems with definitions and the rule of law 3. SPAIN: Ethnic profiling in Catalonia: for every police identity check on a Continue reading
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Yes, Migration IS a Class Issue
13 April 2019 — Novara Media With Bernie Sanders coming out against open borders, and Labour reaffirming their commitment to ending freedom of movement last week, you might well be wondering if along with pastels and culottes, socialism in one country is back. Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 18 March 2019 (07/19)
18 March 2019 — Statewatch.org Also available as a pdf file: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2019/mar/email-18-mar.pdf Please to support our work STATEWATCH NEWS 1. EU: Open letter to MEPs: oppose mandatory fingerprinting for national identity cards 2. EU: Security Union: new measures introduce biometric identity cards and a new database 3. ECHR: Three judgments: detention of and lack of care for unaccompanied Continue reading
The New Dark Age 