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Zohran Mamdani, after his election as Mayor of New York on 5 November 2025: ‘New York will remain a city of immigrants: a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants.’
6 November 2025 - by CADTM, Zohran Mamdani
On Tuesday, November 5, 2025, Zohran Mamdani won the New York City mayoral election, securing one million votes and defeating Andrew Cuomo, the former Democratic governor of New York State, who was backed by Donald Trump and the political (…) -
Invisible Shipwreck Victims
22 October 2025 - by Fernanda Gadea
Continue to give a voice to those who do not have one. In a world where news changes at the speed of a click, it is easy for new conflicts to replace old ones, for tragedies to begin to fall into oblivion, and for the most fragile voices to (…) -
Debt and Immigration : 13 th Asian Regional School, Quezon City, Philippines
3 June 2025 - by Fernanda Gadea
The session on debt and immigration at the 13th Asian Regional School, held in Quezon City, Philippines, was organised by the International Institute for Research and Education (IIRE), Manila on June 1, 2025. The lecturers for this session (…) -
Migration perspectives during Trump’s second term in office
9 February 2025 - by Víctor Manuel Isidro Luna
Abstract International migration is one of the main issues in the world today. International migration has multiple manifestations and indicates desire for a better social life. Trump’s opposition to migration has been one of the pillars of (…) -
Frontex: Who watches the watchman?
8 February 2025 - by Fernanda Gadea
At the CADTM South Asia workshop in Colombo, held from Thursday 30 January to Saturday 1 February, Fernanda Gadea denounced Fortress Europe and its Frontex system. The policies pursued are increasingly inhumane, in line with the rise of far-right (…) -
International Migrants Day
Call for Africain and International solidarity | No to the criminalization of solidarity | Freedom for activists defending the rights of migrants and refugees
17 December 2024 - by Collective, ATTAC/CADTM Morocco
Since May 7, 2024, civic activists in Tunisia have been arrested and placed in pretrial detention. Their so-called crime? Engaging in lawful and transparent actions to assist migrants, often in direct collaboration with the state itself. (…) -
The Pact on Migration and Asylum: another step forward for necropolitics in Europe
18 June 2024 - by Emmanuelle Carton
Introduction The adoption of the new Pact on Migration and Asylum by the twenty-seven EU member States creates a brutal process of selection determining who will be accepted and who will be rejected Migratory policies in Europe in this year (…) -
Tunisian authorities strive to legalize racism with European blessing
30 March 2024 - by The Committee for the Respect of Freedoms and Human Rights in Tunisia
More than a year ago, in February 2023, Tunisian President Kaies Saïed delivered a speech with racist overtones, considering that the presence of Sub-Saharan Africans in Tunisia was leading to “violence, crimes and unacceptable practices” and (…) -
CADTM South Asia annual meeting
Pakistan: Squeezed between IMF programmes and political repression, young people are leaving the country
4 March 2024 - by Abdul Khaliq, Maxime Perriot, CADTM South Asia
Just like Sri Lanka, Pakistan signed an agreement with the International Monetary Fund for a $3 billion loan. It is disbursed as and when the Pakistani government applies the conditionalities demanded by the IMF. This 24th agreement with the IMF, (…) -
How debt may help explain the political economy of European migration policies
31 August 2023 - by Felipe Milin, Irene Valde
Introduction The year 2023 brings once again a catastrophic toll in terms of the victims of European migration policies. On 22 June 2023, a decrepit trawler from Libya sank off the Peloponnese, leaving hundreds of victims. On 13 July 2023, (…) -
Disgust and revulsion : double standards for human lives
22 June 2023 - by Eric Toussaint
On 15 June 2023, a ship carrying several hundred migrants sank in the terrible graveyard that the Mediterranean has become. Almost all the passengers died. Although it was possible to save them from drowning, the authorities deliberately allowed (…) -
Press release
37 deaths at European borders: Spain-Morocco agreement on immigration is deadly!
27 June 2022 - by ATTAC/CADTM Morocco
The tragic events of June 24, 2022 between the Nador and Melilla borders in Morocco are a forceful reminder of the failure of security-oriented migration policies. The 37 dead and hundreds of wounded on the side of the migrants as well as on (…) -
For an effective recognition of the specific grounds for asylum for women, girls and LGBTIQA+ people
4 March 2022 - by Feministasylum
On the occasion of 8 March 2022, International Day of Struggle for Women’s Rights, more than 100 personalities from the political, associative, artistic and sports worlds - including Silvia Federici (Italy), Sofia Bekatorou, double Olympic (…) -
The Monetary Cost of Migration and Debt Incurred in the Journey from Mexico to the United States (2011-2019)
10 June 2021 - by Víctor Manuel Isidro Luna
This note addresses migration and debt in the north border between Mexico and the United States. Specifically, I discuss the flow of people returned to Mexico by the US authorities, the amount that some of these people pay to coyotes (smugglers), (…) -
Migrant Women Are Holding Society Together During This Pandemic
14 April 2021 - by Taroa Zuñiga Silva
The past year has seen several lockdowns as a result of the pandemic, which have had a deep impact on education, employment and the way we work globally. These factors have had an especially stark effect on women. For more than 168 million (…) -
Debt: an infernal device at the heart of the feminization of migration
4 March 2021 - by Christine Vanden Daelen
Inducing everywhere in its wake a social reproduction crisis, i.e. a dispossession of the resources necessary to the reproduction of life, debt plays a central role in women’s migratory paths. It forces them to leave their homes and conditions (…) -
Solidarity to Refugees of Moria
11 September 2020 - by Collective
From the beginning of the pandemic, Moria, a camp with a capacity of about 2,700 people, stored almost 20,000 souls. In conditions of traffic ban, without protection measures and with complete indifference to basic health protection. (…) -
End the inhumane migratory policies of Fortress Europe
23 April 2020 - by ReCommons Europe
Today we publish the third text of the publication entitled “The impact on the South of European financial policies and development cooperation strategies and possible alternatives”, elaborated in the framework of the ReCommonsEurope project. (…) -
Crisis on the Greece-Turkish Border : let’s have done with Fortress Europe
7 March 2020 - by CADTM
Press release of the CADTM International network Once again, European policies have proved to be murderous. For several days now tensions have increased at various cross-border points between Greece and Turkey. Attempts by migrants to cross (…) -
Migrants, debt and propaganda
3 July 2019 - by CADTM Italy
As regards the docking of the Sea Watch 3 ship, a heated debate is rising in Italy, which could not but involve organizations also dealing with economics, finance and debt. In these days we are witnessing the representation of a dramatic , (…) -
Building walls
11 November 2018 - by Ainhoa Ruiz Benedicto, Pere Brunet
This report reveals that member states of the European Union and Schengen Area have constructed almost 1000 km of walls, the equivalent of more than six times the total length of the Berlin Walls, since the nineties to prevent displaced people (…) -
Nowhere to run – The worst refugee crisis since the second world war
4 July 2018 - by Sushovan Dhar
Warsan Shire, a 24 year old Kenyan-born Somali poet, writer and educator based in London, in her debut book, Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth (2011) observes, “No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark.” Three years back, the (…) -
Semira Adamu 1998: They killed a woman, not her fight
21 May 2018 - by Coordination Semira Adamu 2018
On September 22, 1998, during a sixth attempt to eviction, Semira Adamu was killed, suffocated with a cushion by gendarmes who acted in accordance with state-imposed expulsion techniques. A rejected asylum seeker, Semira was twenty years old. (…) -
Imperialism and Dependency: Similarities and Differences with the Marini era
8 May 2018 - by Claudio Katz, Richard Fidler
The main theorist of dependency anticipated trends of neoliberal globalization. He analyzed productive globalization, the centrality of exploitation and the relative weight of surplus value transfers. But the employment crisis exceeds what was (…) -
Taking a close look at the growing household...
4 May 2018 - by Amra Ismail
Taking a close look at the growing household debts in the North and East It is opined that there should be debt counselling or a service whereby debtors can come to an amicable settlement with the creditors
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