Migrations

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 , tragic and aberrant propaganda, whose aim is using (...)
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 migrating into Europe. These physical walls are (...)
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 photographs of Aylan Kurdi sent us shock-waves. 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. From the 127bis detention centre where she was (...)
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 envisaged by Marini, in a scenario disrupted by the (...)
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
Colonialism, borders and justice should be in our conversation about migration

30 April 2018 - by Dorothy Guerrero

Despite the end of historical colonialism - brought about by successful struggles for independence and liberation by former colonial territories in the South and their establishment of post-colonial governments - the nature of North-South relations did not entirely change. In many cases, the (...)
Official development assistance at the antipodes of solidarity

6 April 2018 - by Jérôme Duval

On the 11th of April, 2017, at the end of its report , the OECD proudly announced an increase in official development assistance for the past year: “In 2016, net official development assistance ODA) of the member countries of the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) OECD reached a new high of (...)
Shocking report: Macroeconomic indicators improve but Greece’s society is suffering

9 February 2018 - by Confédération hellénique des cadres, artisans et marchands

Greek society in economic decline: Three out of four are long-time unemployed. 51% of the households depends on pensions. One in five households is afraid to lose its home. 70% of the young Greeks want to look for a work abroad. 16.3% say they cannot afford to cover an extraordinary expense of (...)
A People’s Forum on OBOR and BRICS meets in Hong Kong

6 September 2017 - by Robin Lee

Over the weekend (2nd-3rd September) more than 100 participants met in Hong Kong for a People’s Forum on One Belt, One Road (OBOR) and BRICS. As BRICS leaders begin to meet for their 9th BRICS summit in Xiamen this week and the Hong Kong Trade Development Council prepares to host its second Belt (...)
G4S: When a private company is in charge of your security

11 April 2017 - by Jérôme Duval

The security context in Europe today doesn’t make everybody unhappy, especially among firms that have specialised in security and surveillance. Among them, the British G4S, to which many governments subcontract their dirty work, ranging from prison management to the deportation of migrants. Will (...)
Migrations – Looting and Climate

20 October 2016 - by Nicolas Sersiron

With its 1.79 children per household, Germany is in demographic decline. The production of its wealth relies on wage earners. It must import a workforce for which it does not have to provide care for the first few years and which it hopes will depart before retirement. The resulting (...)
EU-Turkey agreement: Call for action!

14 March 2016 - by Altersummit

Alter Summit calls its members to organise, support or join any demonstation or gathering opposing the UE-Turkey agreement in the « management » of the refugee crisis. Demonstations are already planned on 16th of March, eve of the EU Summit. This sinister deal confirms the drive back of refugee (...)
IMF’s Prescription for Europe: Exploit Refugees with Low Wages

25 January 2016 - by Nadia Prupis

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Wednesday released a report urging the European countries accepting a majority of refugees to “temporarily” pay them less than minimum wage. In its report, the IMF recommended implementing a short-term differentiation between asylum seekers and EU (...)
The Rohingya ordeal: a maritime ping-pong

21 January 2016 - by Mihir Bhonsale

Mohammad Haryot aged 15 left one of the camps in Rakhine state of Myanmar with seven other members of his family for Malaysia. A boat ride to reach a larger vessel cost them $500 each after which they set sails in the Bay of Bengal along with 300 co-fearers without food or water. But a week (...)
Are Climate Advocates not Welcome in France for COP21?

3 November 2015 - by Sophie Chapelle

The French government is set to reintroduce border controls for a month, over the period of the International Climate Conference in Paris. This exceptional measure is taken “where there is a serious threat to public policy or internal security”. It appears that civil society, which is planning on (...)
Migrating to uncertainty

19 May 2015 - by Sushovan Dhar

Jeeban Puri from Sindhupalchowk district in Nepal, while working as a driver in Damam, Saudi Arabia, wanted to get back home desperately after the recent 7.8-magnitude earthquake which struck Nepal. Reaching his place, he discovered that his three-year-old son had died and his house was totally (...)
NO BORDER : Brussels Police sentenced for compensation and moral damage

Five No Border activists had the courage and determination to cite the Belgian State and the Brussels Police zone before the Court of First Instance. It is their preventive and abusive arrests, violently carried out in a climate of widespread repression that they wished to see condemned. (...)
Lampedusa: murderous Europe

12 October 2013 - by Migreurop

The new shipwreck of a boat coming from Libya in which at least 300 out of the 500 passengers perished or disappeared very near to the island of Lampedusa, was not caused by fate. In 2010, in the same place, two simultaneous shipwrecks resulted in close to 400 victims. In 2009, 200 people (...)
The Togolese migrants - largest donors in Togo

30 January 2012 - by Samir Abi

This article reviews the findings of a study we conducted in the last half of 2011 on remittances of Togolese migrants especially those living in Germany. On the last ten years the migration is the social subject that has gained importance over the world. It has altogether economical, (...)
Appeal to MeP’s: Reject The “Return” Directive

During the next plenary session in Strasbourg (16-19 June), members of the European Parliament are being asked to vote on the so-called “Return Directive”. The text has already been adopted by EU Interior Ministers and includes an administrative detention period for irregular migrants of up to (...)
Regarding “The Return Directive”

17 June 2008 - by Evo Morales Ayma

Until the end of the Second World War, Europe was a continent of emigrants. Tens of millions of Europeans came to the Americas to colonize, escape hunger, financial crisis, wars, European totalitarianisms and the persecutions of ethnic minorities. Today, I am following with deep concern the (...)