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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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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. (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)