Category: Border monitoring
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A Union of Transnational Migrant Workers!
Migrants form Binational Coalition to document and protest against abuses from employers and companies in the U.S.A. and Mexico. For full article click here Source: La Opinion.
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Eviction attempts at the Idomeni have begun!
After more than 3 weeks of refusing to move from the Idomeni border (Greek-Macedonian), the police force has started to forcibly evict the protesters forcibly sending them to Greek cities such as Athens and Thessaloniki (source: http://livetickereidomeni.bordermonitoring.eu/2015/12/09/9-12-2015/). As a reminder, these are mostly the people who do not come from Syria, Irak and Afganistan and…
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The sealing off of the ‘Balkan borders’
The EU has finally struck a deal with the Turkish government at 29.10.2015 in which 3 bilion Euros per yer, visa liberalizations and unfrozen EU membership negotiations, negotiations that the EU froze with Turkey in 2005 under pretense of R. Erdoğans government style as authoritative, will be exchanged for the Turkish role as an external…
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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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(Possible) Enactment of EU’s policies of “slowing down” the movement flows
European’s Unions recent plans to manage the movement of people by slowing the flows at the so called ‘Balkan route‘ is apparently taking its first steps. To not enter the abstract theoretical discussions let us qoute the information posted from the Anti-racist Front Without Borders (17.11.2015), gathered by the activists and volunteers at the borders:…
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Important: Slovenia starts erecting barbed wire!
On November 10th 2015 at the ”emergency” government assembly in Slovenia Slovenian prime minister Miro Cerar announced that the government with its ministers agreed on the establishment of the barbed wire, or what they politically correct call ‘technical obstacles‘, at the Croatian-Slovenian border. He announced that since Germany and Austria are tightening their asylum systems…
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‘No-mans land’
In the last week(s) there has been an establishment of the ‘official corridor’ through the so called Balkan route. This intergovernmental agreement’s aim is to control the flow of people who are fleeing for a better life in Europe. Even though it may sound as an improvement, for the better fluctuation of people, it is…
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Dobova lager (Croatian-Slovenian border)
[wpvideo PfLVMCzj] This video was taken in Dobova (Slovenia) a few days ago. This is not just a sole example of the mistreatment of the incoming people. The situations in camps change through days – sometimes they are empty and next day filled with new people arriving from Croatia. The situation at Šentilj/Spielfeld (Slovenian-Austrian border)…
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Reestablishing state of exception in the EU and a call for international meeting, manifestation and solidarity action in Slovenia
#Rigonce 21.10.2015 In the last week, since the Hungary closed its borders, Slovenia became the ‘new hotspot’ for the so called Balkan route, where people, who traveled from Serbia or Croatia to Hungary, were forced to change their direction of traveling to their desired situations. In the last post we talked about the hypocrisy of…
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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…