20 October 2020 — Statewatch
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
Tag: refugees
We Took Action Against the Hostile Environment
16 October 2020 — Migrants Organise
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
UK: Stand in solidarity with Simba this weekend
9 October 2020 — Medact
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.
Hi Fly: Airline profiting from deportations while owners decry ‘desperate plight of migrants’
9 October 2020 — Corporate Watch
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.
Deportation Union: revamped return policies and reckless forced removals
18 September 2020 — Statewatch
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.
Deportation Union: Rights, accountability and the EU’s push to increase forced removals
21 August 2020 — Statewatch
- – Infographic: How the EU is building a ‘deportation machine’
– Press release: EU’s planned ‘deportation machine’: expensive, dangerous and lacking in transparency and accountability measures
– Full-text of the report: available here
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 of EU databases and information systems; and the increased budget, powers and personnel awarded to Frontex.
Moral panic over refugees in the English Channel is the ugly face of Brexit
12 August 2020 — Medium
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.
Fair Immigration: Dignity. Justice. Welcome. Action
4 August 2020 — FIRM
Fair Immigration Reform Movement – FIRM
Unlocking the Hostile Environment – What Next?
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 than white counterparts. The government dragged its feet in acknowledging the problem, and commissioning a review, then refused to publish its findings about structural inequalities that contributed to these deaths. [read more]
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
Statewatch: Open letter to Secretary-General of International Maritime Organization (IMO)
30 June 2020 — Statewatch
Statewatch News Online, 30 June 2020
e-mail: office@statewatch.org
London, 29 June 2020 – The civil liberties organisation Statewatch has today delivered an open letter [1] with hundreds of signatories to Mr Kitack Lim, Secretary-General of International Maritime Organization (IMO), calling on him to revoke the Libyan maritime search and rescue (SAR) zone [2] in order to prevent the so-called Libyan Coast Guard undertaking ‘pull-backs’ of migrants to Libya, where they face violence, abuse and mistreatment.
The deportation machine in 2020 / Rough-sleeper raids rebranded
12 June 2020 — Corporate Watch
UK deportations 2020: how BA, Easyjet and other airlines collaborate with the border regime
On 30 April, with UK airports largely deserted during the Covid-19 lockdown, a Titan Airways charter plane took off from Stansted airport deporting 35 people to Poland. This was just a few days after reports of charter flights in the other direction, as UK farmers hired planes to bring in Eastern European fruit-pickers.
Webinar: Walls Must Fall: Ending the deadly politics of border militarisation (TNI)
12 June 2020 — Statewatch
COVID-19 has become another touchstone for today’s deeply entrenched politics of militarised borders and anti-migrant racism. Leaders like Trump and Orban have blamed the virus on foreigners and to claim justification for their racist politics. But they have also been used European Union Member States of all political tendencies have used the crisis to close off ports to rescue ships, making the Mediterranean even more deadly for refugees. The ‘necropolitics’ of border militarization that justifies systemic crimes against humanity has become tragically hegemonic.
