Borders
On borders, migration, refugees and asylum seekers, state violence and acts of aggression by the extreme right against migrants. Write your story or report and we will translate it and publish it
Soon after the March 18 EU-Turkey deal, the first boats began returning migrants from Greece to Turkey. The previous migration and border regime run by the EU and parts of the international community had officially ceased to operate. An emerging new border regime now produces new categories of deservedness and differentiated inclusion and exclusion. Who [...]
June 8, 2016
Author: Anna Papoutsi
There is a cringe-worthy parallel between the securitisation of the spaces of living for those of us lucky enough to be inside the EU territory and the spaces reserved for those arriving here: they are both inefficient and inadequate. [...]
April 25, 2016
Author: Antonis Vradis
The EU-Turkey “deal of shame” by Stratis Bournazos [...]
April 9, 2016
Author: Stratis Bournazos
In the days approaching the meeting of the European Council and closing the EU deal with Turkey regarding the biggest humanitarian crisis since WWII, numerous articles analysing and criticising the deal have already filled our media and social networks. When the deal was struck, additional critique followed, but it appears that so far it is [...]
April 8, 2016
Author: Lucija Mulalić
So, what is this new European Border and Coast Guard? Much more than what its name suggests. In theory, as it has been described, it is yet another step in the long-term process of militarisation of both the EU's borders and its interior. In reality, the Commission seeks to establish close surveillance and the possibility [...]
March 13, 2016
Author: Apostolis Fotiadis
The European coalition of the inhumane – contriving to trap refugees in Greece – cannot go on. A humanitarian evacuation plan is urgently needed [...]
February 25, 2016
Author: Apostolis Fotiadis
Croatia is no stranger to refugees. After all, we were exactly those freezing and worried people 25 years ago, when we were crossing borders with no papers, papers that were destroyed together with our houses, in search of a safe place. Croatia is also no stranger to accepting refugees. After all, it hosted over half [...]
October 27, 2015
Author: Lucija Mulalić
By getting the UNHCR and Frontex to more directly intervene in the first moments of arrival with identification and fingerprinting, the EU is attempting to retake control of movement throughout Europe. [...]
October 19, 2015
Author: Richard B
Does the Commission know how many people have entered this year in the EU? The correct answer is: Maybe they know, maybe they don't - but that does not really matter. [...]
October 18, 2015
Author: Apostolis Fotiadis
VIDEOS & PHOTOS from the visit of Dimitris Avramopoulos (EC Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs & Citizenship), Yannis Mouzalas (Greek Minister for Migration) and Frabrice Leggeri (Frontex Executive Director) at the Moria camp but somehow they failed to see what is going on there. [...]
October 16, 2015
Author: Transcapes