Tag: border monitoring
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THE BLACK BOOK OF PUSHBACKS
by Border Violence Monitoring Network To coincide with International Migrants Day on 18th December the Border Violence Monitoring Network (BVMN) have released a landmark publication on illegal border pushbacks. The ‘Black Book of Pushbacks’ brings together a wealth of evidence on these violations, analysing in detail the way that these brutal acts have become systematised…
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Pazarkule: Bir ayın sonunda / After a month
Once drawn to the Turkey-Greece border, migrants are trapped by the police force, with hunger and miserable conditions, and pushed back several times.
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The EU is closing its borders, letting through only certain nationalities!
News from Anti-Racist Front Without Borders, gathered by the activists from the borderzones: Idomeni, Greece (Greek-Macedonian border): Today, as yesterday, only Syrians, Afghans and Iraqis are allowed to pass, everyone else is halted. Despair has started to spread among the people gathered there. Some have been in Eidomeni for four days. The food is not…
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The construction of the European Union’s immigration system
These days it is getting obvious that the European Union, a supranational entity supposedly built on the values of freedom and peace, is putting a stamp on it’s mostly non-existant immigration and asylum system. That the European leaders selectively apply such values only for the economic and political elites is nothing new. New and surprising…
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Hungary closes its borders
On October 15 2015 Hungary finally decided to close its border passage Botovo with Croatia, where the “more formal coridor” for the flow of people, temporary established by inter-governmental agreements, took place, changing the direction of the so called balkan route. Instead of going through Croatia to Hungary the route is redirected to Slovenia, where…
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Dramaturgy of safe corridor through the Balkans
The category of Border monitoring will be used to give reports about the flow of people throught the borders of the so called “Balkan route”. The route watch will mostly include borders and registration centers between Bulgaria, Macedonia, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Slovenia and Austria. All information will be first-hand and forwarded from the groups of…